IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 326: Fluid Borders in the Late Medieval Adriatic: Mobility, Trade, and Social Interaction in a Shared Maritime Space, 14th-15th Centuries

Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:	Nicolò Villanti, Historisches Institut Universität Duisburg-Essen
Moderator/Chair:	Gion Wallmeyer, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Paper 326-a	The Discourses on the Adriatic in the Second Half of the 14th Century (Language: English) Dušan Mlacović, Oddelek za zgodovino, Univerza v Ljubljani Index terms: Local History, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 326-b	The New Christians of Puglia in 15th-Century Venice: Considerations on a Particular Group of Migrants (Language: English) Benjamin Scheller, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Local History, Social History
Paper 326-c	'Io ho tanto de patrimonio in Puglia, io andarò là e staro là': Maritime Mobility and Trans-Adriatic Trade on Late Medieval Venetian Korčula (Language: English) Fabian Kümmeler, Sonderforschungsbereich Project 'Visions of Community' / Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Universität Wien Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Urban, Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History
Paper 326-d	Grain Trade: A Driver of Integration in the Adriatic Region in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Nicolò Villanti, Historisches Institut Universität Duisburg-Essen Index terms: Economics - General, Local History, Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History
Abstract	This panel re-examines the interpretation of the late medieval Adriatic as a border sea, elaborating the characteristics of an extensively and persistently integrated space of towns and villages along its eastern and western shores. Across its 'fluid frontiers', trade relations, social mobility, and legal institutions created an osmotic sphere of socio-cultural and economic interaction, while political powers repeatedly posed threats to flows of goods, people, and knowledge. Scrutinizing the maritime entanglement of Dalmatian islands and Apulian coastal towns across political borders, we offer new insights into this shared maritime space at the fringe of both late medieval East and West.