IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 821: Cities in Medieval Italy and Italians in Medieval Cities, III: Merchants in Medieval Cities - Insiders, Outsiders, and Go-Betweens
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | School of History & Archives, University College Dublin / Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge |
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| Organisers: | Edward Coleman, Department of History, William R. Day, Department of Coins & Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | William R. Day, Department of Coins & Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 821-a | Genoese Trade Networks in Southern Iberia: Trade, Technological Transfer, Economic Integration (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 821-b | Exiles and Outsiders: Mercantile Networks between Tuscany and the Crown of Aragon in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Trade, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Abstract | This session examines the problem of identity – local, regional, national, occupational, religious – in commercial affairs and the various and sometimes contrasting ways it was used to facilitate or mediate commercial activity. It also shows how, for Italians at least, the question of identity was sometimes bound up with the familiar phenomena of factionalism and exile. Finally, it explores the way in which the religious identity of Jewish merchants sometimes intersected or overlapped with other aspects of their identity but sometimes also diverged, and it considers whether one aspect tended to prevail over the others. |