IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 822: Medieval Italians outside of Italy
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Carrie Beneš, Division of Social Sciences, New College of Florida |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Paul Oldfield, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
| Paper 822-a | Italy Unbound: Being an Italian Abroad in the Civic Chronicle Corpus (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Italian, Literacy and Orality, Mentalities |
| Paper 822-b | Florence in Tunis, Ancona on the Black Sea: An Italian Geography of the Mediterranean in Manuscripts of Goro Dati's La sfera (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Italian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 822-c | Affiliation and Belonging in the Medieval Mediterranean: Networks and Identities in Genoese Notarial Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Economics - Trade, Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | While it is generally understood that medieval inhabitants of the Italian peninsula were eager and experienced travelers, the historiography of late medieval Italy is often overwhelmingly intramural, focusing on civic communities and relationships between cities (occasionally mutually beneficial, more often competitive or hostile). This panel 'zooms out' that narrow focus to explore the affinities and/or social webs that connected late medieval Italians outside of Italy - across the Mediterranean and beyond. Consideration of historical, documentary, and literary sources reveals a sense of Italianità enacted on a broader scale; each paper examines aspects of a common culture among medieval Italians on the move. |