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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1516: Travellers' Tales from Italy and Iberia, III: Contrasting Travel Experiences of Merchants and Slaves - A Change of Perspective

Thursday 15 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF) – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona / School of History & Archives, University College Dublin
Organisers:Edward Coleman, Department of History,
Roser Salicrú i Lluch, Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona
Maria Elisa Soldani, Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona
Moderator/Chair:Maria Elisa Soldani, Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona
Paper 1516-aSailing to Ragusa: A Travel That Changes Merchants into Officers
(Language: English)
Francesco Bettarini, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Social History
Paper 1516-bMerchants Passing Away on Travel: Legal and Practical Aspects of Inheritance
(Language: English)
Marco Veronesi, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Social History
Paper 1516-cAnonymous Travellers: Slaves and Slave Markets in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
(Language: English)
Iván Armenteros Martínez, Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Social History
Abstract

This session focuses on the relations between travel and trade through the experience of different kinds of individuals. First it offers the perspective of merchants: as actors in commercial transactions, they knew well how to minimise risks and how to solve unexpected problems abroad. The session goes on to consider the perspective of frequently neglected medieval travellers: slaves. They were the passive component of commercial exchanges, but had a wide life experience, comparable to that of merchants and diplomats since they travelled across hundreds of miles before arriving in a new cultural worlds.