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 |
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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-a | Sailing to Ragusa: A Travel That Changes Merchants into Officers (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Social History |
Paper 1516-b | Merchants Passing Away on Travel: Legal and Practical Aspects of Inheritance (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Social History |
Paper 1516-c | Anonymous Travellers: Slaves and Slave Markets in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon (Language: English) 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. |