IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 518: Urbanity and Networks in Italy, 12th-15th Centuries, I: Human Networks
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Solène Minier, Département des Sciences Sociales École Normale Supérieur de Lyon |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Catherine Rideau-Kikuchi, Dynamiques patrimoniales et culturelles (DYPAC), Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris-Saclay |
| Paper 518-a | Maddalena Scrovegni and the Others: Female Upper-Class Networks and the Rise of Charitable Institutions in Early Renaissance Veneto (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Social History |
| Paper 518-b | The Dead and Political Networks in Late Medieval Italian Cities and Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Social History |
| Paper 518-c | Union, Mutual Acquaintance, or Competition: Was There an Italian Network in 14th- and 15th-Century London? (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Abstract | Northern and Central Italy, cradle of the city communes, is central to the framing of a model of Mediterranean, or even medieval, urbanity and the efficiency of such a model relies upon the notion of networks. Indeed, the combination of both an early population growth and a dense entanglement of relationships made Italian cities stand out throughout the Middle Ages. This session aims at discussing how networks analysis or the mere notion of networks can be of help in the framing of Italian cities social and political structures. More specifically, it focuses on groups that are not central in urban society (women, the dead, and Italians abroad) and therefore are more revealing of networking logics. |