| Paper 316-a | Migratory Patterns between Bristol and Ireland and South Wales in the 15th Century
(Language: English)
Timothy Bowly, School of History, University of the West of England, Bristol
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Social History |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
In the 15th century Bristol was a focus for migration from south Wales and from Ireland. After a review of migration theory, the paper will examine the evidence for this migration using licences, alien subsidy rolls, apprentice books, ordinances, and wills. It will also examine migration from Bristol to Ireland especially that of attorneys going to Ireland.
Paper -b:
Based on the presentation and interpretation of some previously unknown ego-documents from a South-Tyrolean library, referring to the migration of some Saxonian craftsmen during the 16th century from their region to the Tyrolean county, the paper is dealing with questions of migration in the early modern period. What did push people to leave their habitual environment? Do we know what influenced their decision to migrate? Besides those general questions the documents give also a deep insight into the family live in a period of great transition. Although the records apparently don't show emotions, the birth and death of the children or the parturient mothers are very neatly registered. This leads to the question, how people in the pre-modern period did cope and put up with the general insecurity of their lifeworld.
Paper -c:
Florentine migration in the period of the reign of Sigismund fell into two patterns. The first of these was typical of agents of merchant companies, could not properly be called migratory; rather, these are best thought of as commuters who moved between the Florentine Republic and the Hungarian Kingdom. Included in this group were also a small number of politicians who ended up in Buda mainly as ambassadors of the city-state, and who followed a similar back-and forth pattern. Alongside this temporary diffusion of a small number of Florentines into the Hungarian economy, there were a small number of true immigrants into the kingdom who came to meet a demand for labour. The paper based on unpublished primary sources housed by the Florentine National Archives and investigates the different push-pull factors as well as the social, economic and political aspects of a medieval migration flow.
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