Giancarlo Casale, Nükhet Varlik and Tunahan Durmaz, ‘Ottoman experiences of epidemics’, Experiencing Epidemics Podcast Series, Episode 7.
What do the travelogue of an eighteenth-century Ottoman ambassador and the reflections of a seventeenth-century dervish from Istanbul have in common? They both provide precious insights into Ottoman experiences of epidemics at home and abroad, [...]
Ann Thomson, ‘Volney’s Turkish plague’, Experiencing Epidemics Podcast Series, Episode 3.
Throughout history, fear of infectious disease was used to incite fear and hatred of ethnic, cultural, and religious ‘other’. In Episode 3, Gašper Jakovac is hosting Prof. Ann Thomson (EUI) to discuss the writings of [...]
‘Mobility and Displacement in and around the Mediterranean. A Historical Approach’, Cátia Antunes and Giedrė Blažytė (eds.), Special Issue, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This text offers an introduction to the special theme section on Mobility and Displacement in and around the Mediterranean: A Historical Approach, guest-edited by the authors. You can find the introduction to this Open Access [...]
Filomena Barros (†) y José Alberto Tavim, ‘Mobilities and Communities between North Africa and Portugal: Muslims and Jews in the Medieval and Early Modern Ages’, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This article reflects on the connections between geographical mobility and the constitution of a community in Portugal in the cases of Jews and Muslims in the Middle and Early Modern Ages. You can read this [...]
Hugo Martins, ‘Between Welfare and Vagrancy: Migrants, Refugees and Travellers between Hamburg and the Mediterranean in the Seventeenth Century’, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This article aims to understand how the philanthropic policies of Northern European Sephardic communities affected the lives of Jews in the Mediterranean basin and, conversely, how Jewish mobility to and from the Mediterranean impacted on [...]
David Do Paço, ‘Tempo, Scales and Circulations: The Lazarets in Eighteenth-Century Trieste’, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This article reinterprets the circulations between the Mediterranean and continental Europe by studying the lazarets in eighteenth-century Trieste and explaining how they entangled and connected complex and autonomous systems for circulating information, knowledge, people and [...]
Katrina O’Loughlin, ‘The Pathless Seas: Configuring Displacement in British Romanticism’, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This essay considers the philosophical project of hospitality and friendship in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) through the movements of Victor Frankenstein and his “Creature”, tracking their attempts to forge social and emotional bonds in the face [...]
Elizabeth Harding, “Connecting People, Trade, and Orders of Knowledge: Mediality and Intermediality of Early Modern Auction Catalogues,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 150-167.
Elizabeth Harding, “Connecting People, Trade, and Orders of Knowledge: Mediality and Intermediality of Early Modern Auction Catalogues,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 150-167.
Elizabeth Harding, "Connecting People, Trade, and Orders of Knowledge: Mediality and Intermediality of Early Modern Auction Catalogues," in "Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José [...]
Joëlle Weis, “The Genealogy of a Collection: The Augustean Catalogues in Wolfenbüttel,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 135-149.
Joëlle Weis, "The Genealogy of a Collection: The Augustean Catalogues in Wolfenbüttel," in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), [...]
William Zammit, “Paper, Commerce, and the Circulation of News: A Case-Study from Early Modern Malta,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 113-134.
William Zammit, "Paper, Commerce, and the Circulation of News: A Case-Study from Early Modern Malta," in "Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez [...]