New (3rd) Series – The Medieval Mediterranean: Local and Global Perspectives

New academic year and new (third!) webinar series, The Medieval Mediterranean: Local and Global Perspectives 2022/23 Sponsored and organised by the Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln, The Society for the Medieval Mediterranean and, The Woolf Institute, in collaboration with the IMF-CSIC (Barcelona), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, the Leicester Medieval Research Centre (Dr Jan Vandeburie) and HPIMS (Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies — www.pirenne.ugent.be) at Ghent University.

The first event of the series will be: Tuesday 18th October 2022, 5-6pm (UK time) Mobility, Belonging and Community in the Mediterranean City (Barcelona, Venice and Constantinople 1400-1550).

Speakers: Dr Lisa Dallavalle, Dr Özden Mercan and Dr Carolina Obradors-Suazo.Chair: Dr Roser Salicrú i Lluch. This session offers an analysis of the processes of community-building, social advancement and agency in the late medieval Mediterranean. It focuses on three cities that will take us from one shore of the Mediterranean to the other.

The urban contexts of Barcelona, Venice and Constantinople allow us to delve into the different ways that individuals and groups strove to improve their position within the fabric of the late medieval city.

Consequently, the papers in this session will consider issues such as, the importance of sociability in the creation of belonging, the role of profession in the establishment of urban hierarchies and the agency of foreign communities in the shaping of urban life.

To register: https://theofed-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T0Jgqss-Rqajv6nVRfaCMg

All welcome!

Story submitted by Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
aliuzzoscorpo@lincoln.ac.uk