IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 214: Political, Cultural, and Literary Encounters in the Mediterranean, II: Merchants, Nobles and Minorities between East and West
Monday 12 July 2004, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Eleni Sakellariou, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Ioannina Kostas Yiavis, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Kostas Yiavis, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 214-a | Aspetti della vita politica e culturale della Sicilia nella seconda metà del '400 attraverso un libro di conto catalano intestato a Caterina Lull, mercantessa catalana (Language: Italiano) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Gender Studies, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 214-b | Governmental Attitudes towards Foreigners: Catalans in Constantinople in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Spanish/Portuguese, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | In the second session on cultural encounters in the Mediterranean, the focus shifts to social aspects. Caterina Lull was the widow of a Catalan merchant who actively continued her husband's business in a foreign country, Sicily. Niccolo Acciaiuoli belonged to one of the great merchant families in 14th-century Florence, but turned his back to a career in the forefront of Italy's financial elite and tried instead to assimilate himself into the feudal nobility of the Kingdom of Naples. The third paper sheds new light on the daily life of a Jewish community in Venetian Crete and on the position of the Jews between a Greek-Orthodox population and a Catholic Venetian ruling elite. |