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 |
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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: | Roser Salicrú i Lluch, Departament d'Estudis Medievals, Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona |
Paper 1618-a | In the Court of Gold: Bencio Carucci of Florence in the Mint of Pope John XXII at Pont de Sorgues (Avignon), 1322-1330 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - Italian, Numismatics |
Paper 1618-b | Ideas Travelling from Siena to Barcelona: The Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala as a Model for Santa Creu's Complex (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Architecture - General, Medicine, Mentalities |
Paper 1618-c | Travelling through Letters: Self-Representation of Institutions in Florentine Foreign Relations of the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) 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. |