Foreigners in the Deep Heart of Medieval and Early Modern Societies (Europe, the Mediterranean and the Muslim World), 18-20 juin 2014
International conference organized by Francisco Apellániz, David Do Paço and Cédric Quertier
18-20 June 2014
European University Institute Villa Schifanoia / Badia fiesolana
Discussants: R. Grafe, T. Krstić, L. Molà, G. Todeschini, R. Zaugg Contact : David.DoPaco@EUI.eu
Sala Cappella, Villa Schifanoia, via Giovanni Boccaccio 121, Firenze.
Max Weber Common Room, Badia Fiesolana, via de’ Roccettini 9, San Domenico di Fiesole
Wednesday, June 18: A Legal History. Cappella (Villa Schifanioa)
10h30-12h – Introductions : F. Apellániz, D. Do Paço, C. Quertier.
14h-16h – (1) Courts, Trials and Societies.
Max Weber Common Room (Badia Fiesolana)
F. Apellaniz (European University Institute, Marie Curie Actions): ‘Solving Conflict in Mediterranean Complex Environments : Europeans at Markets and Courts in the Late Medieval Middle East (1350-1500)’.
A. B. Fernandez Castro (European University Institute): ‘Judging Foreignness in the Audience of the House of Trade of Seville (1583-1598)’.
J. Wubs-Mrozewicz (Universiteit Leiden): ‘Conflict Resolution with Foreigners in the Hanse area in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century: Law and Diplomacy’.
Discussant: Roberto Zaugg (Sciences po).
16h30-18h30 – (2) Foreignness Politics.
R. Dorin (Harvard University): ‘From Jew to Foreigner: Canon Law and the Expulsion of Jews in the Late Middle Ages’.
J. M. Escribano Paez (European University Institute): ‘Italian Merchants in Iberian and Maghreb’s cities Between the XVth and XVIth Centuries’.
V. McGuire (European University Institute, Max Weber Programme): ‘Franco-Levantines: Reading Citizenship and National Belonging Through the History of the Merchants of Venice’.
Discussant: Tijana Krstić (Central European University).
Thursday, June 19 : Foreigners and Elements of Foreignness. Max Weber Common Room (Badia Fiesolana)
10h-12h: (1) Determining Foreigners.
C. Quertier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / École Française de Rome): ‘Le Marchand florentin à Pise : de l’homme invisible à la nation marchande la plus privilégiée (XIVe siècle)’.
M. Pakucs (‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History, Bucharest): ‘The pernicious nation of the Greeks: ‘Greek’ Merchants in Transylvania, Sixteenth- Seventeenth Centuries’.
M. Grenet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, ERC ConfigMed): ‘Un cosmopolitisme de frontière ? Marchands ‘étrangers’ et fabrique des identités locales dans les Iles Ioniennes au XVIIIe siècle’.
Discussant: Giacomo Todeschini (Università degli studi di Trieste).
14h-16h: (2) Migrations and Social Bonding.
J. M. Escribano Paez (European University Institute): ‘Italian Merchants in Iberian and Maghreb’s cities Between the XVth and XVIth Centuries’.
C. Tarruell (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid):‘L’accueil de musulmans et de juifs venus « de leur propre volonté » au sein de la Monarchie hispanique (fin XVIe – début XVIIe siècles)’.
M. Gasperoni (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales / École Française de Rome):‘Les hommes circulent et s’échangent. Phénomènes migratoires entre Marches et Romagne à l’époque moderne’.
Discussant: Roberto Zaugg (Sciences po).
16h30-18h: (3) Belonging to a Community.
O. Mercan (European University Institute): ‘Italian Communities in Istanbul in the Late 15th and 16th c.’.
S. Montemezzo (Università di Verona): ‘Being Alien Merchants in a Capital City. Venetians in London and Bruges at the End of 15th century’.
C. Santus (École Pratique des Hautes Études / Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): ‘Becoming Foreigners: Eastern Christians and «Franks» at the turn of the 18th century’.
Discussant: Regina Grafe (European University Institute).
Friday, June 20 : Social Bonding and Polarisation. Max Weber Common Room (Badia Fiesolana)
10h-12h: (1) Geography.
D. Do Paço (European University Institute, Max Weber Programme): ‘From Modern Pacific to Early Modern Central Europe: on Marshall Sahlins’ Process of Indeginization’.
M. Couderc (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): ‘La cour, matrice d’intégration. Les ‘Grecs’ en Europe du Nord-ouest (Angleterre, Bourgogne et France), XVe siècle.’.
S. Nadalo (Northwestern University / Paris College of Art): ‘From Market to Synagogue: Locating Pluralistic Sociality in the Free Port of Livorno’.
Discussant: Luca Molà European University Institute).
14h-15h30: (2) The Unbearable Lightness of the Peripheries.
A. Lestremau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): ‘He ælþeodige unsida lufode. Rois, ducs et étrangers dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne au XIe siècle’.
K. Prajda (Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): ‘Florentine Merchant Companies in the Republic of Venice and in the Kingdom of Hungary During the First Decades of the 15th Century. A Comparative Analysis of Commercial and Social Relations’.
L. Binz (European University Institute): ‘Latin Catholics in Constantinople 1650-1750’.
Discussant: Tijana Krstić (Central European University).
16h00: Conclusion by Giacomo Todeschini (Università degli Studi di Trieste).
contact : David.DoPaco@eui.eu ou cedric.quertier@gmail.com