This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged that Europe from the Middle Ages onwards saw increasing flows of people and goods. Movement also connected the continent more closely to other parts of the world. The present work challenges dominant notions of the ‘fixed,’ immobile nature of pre-modern cultures through study of the inter-connected material, social, and cultural dimensions of mobility. The case studies presented here chart the technologies and practices that both facilitated and impeded movement in diverse spheres of social activity such as communication, transport, politics, religion, medicine, and architecture. The chapters underscore the importance of the movement of people and objects through space and across distance to the dynamic economic, political, and cultural life of the early modern period..
This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. The case studies presented here chart the technologies and practices that both facilitated and impeded movement in diverse spheres of social activity such as communication, transport, politics, religion, medicine, and architecture.
Movement and Mobility in the Early Modern World: An Introduction (Paul
Nelles and Rosa Salzberg), MOVING BODIES,
Chapter One Linguistic Encounter:
Fynes Moryson and the Uses of Language (John Gallagher),
Chapter Two Wading
Through the Mire. Mobility on the Grand Tour (15851750) (Gerrit Verhoeven),
Chapter Three Travelling for Health: Medicine and Rural Mobility in Early
Modern Spain (Carolin Schmitz), CROSSING BORDERS,
Chapter Four Mobility and
Danger on the Borders of the Papal States (16th17th Centuries) (Irene Fosi),
Chapter Five News on the Road: the Mobility of Handwritten Newsletters in
Early Modern Europe (Paola Molino),
Chapter Six Quarantine, Mobility, and
Trade: Commercial Lazzarettos in the Early Modern Adriatic (Darka Bili.),
GLOBAL NETWORKS,
Chapter Seven Devotion in Transit. Agnus Dei, Jesuit
Missionaries, and Global Salvation in the Sixteenth Century (Paul Nelles),
Chapter Eight Getting to the Holy Land: Franciscan Journeys and Mediterranean
Mobility (Felicita Tramontana),
Chapter Nine From Mount Lebanon to the Little
Mount in Madras: Mobility and Catholic-Armenian Alms-Collecting Networks
During the Eighteenth Century (Sebouh Aslanian), Index.
Paul Nelles is Associate Professor of early modern history at Carleton University. His research focuses on the history of books, writing, and religion in early modern Europe. His study of Jesuit communication, The Information Order: Writing, Mobility and Distance in the Making of the Society of Jesus (15401573), is forthcoming. Rosa Salzberg is Associate Professor of Early Modern History, University of Trento. Her research focuses on communication, urban history and the history of migration and mobility in early modern Europe, with a focus on Venice. She is the author of Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice (2014).
