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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1618: Travellers' Tales from Italy and Iberia, IV: Beyond Travel - Perceptions, Representations, and Outcomes

Thursday 15 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

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:Roser Salicrú i Lluch, Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona
Paper 1618-aIn the Court of Gold: Bencio Carucci of Florence in the Mint of Pope John XXII at Pont de Sorgues (Avignon), 1322-1330
(Language: English)
William R. Day, Department of Coins & Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - Italian, Numismatics
Paper 1618-bIdeas Travelling from Siena to Barcelona: The Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala as a Model for Santa Creu's Complex
(Language: English)
Carles Vela Aulesa, Institució Milà i Fontanals, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona
Index terms: Administration, Architecture - General, Medicine, Mentalities
Paper 1618-cTravelling through Letters: Self-Representation of Institutions in Florentine Foreign Relations of the Late Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Lorenzo Tanzini, Dipartimento di Studi storici, geografici & artistici, Università degli studi di Cagliari
Index terms: Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - Italian, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract

The aim of this session is to reflect on the results and effects of travelling to foreign European countries in the Middle Ages. It firstly traces the career of a Florentine merchant who entered as assayer in the papal mint for gold and settled near Avignon. Then it underlines the importance of travellers' previous experiences in the shaping of their perception of foreign lands, shown by the case of Leo of Rozmital and his Bohemian companions visiting Iberia. Finally, it looks at the Florentine diplomatic strategies of self-representation abroad.