Giovanni Tarantino (PhD 2004, F.R.Hist.S.) is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Florence, former Chair of the COST Action People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923), Co-Editor of the journals Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography and Emotions: History, Culture, Society and Co-Editor of the series 'Histories in Motions' (Brepols) and 'Translating Cultures in the Early Modern World' (Brill). He was selected as Hans Kohn Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, a Resident Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg 'Dynamics in the History of Religions' at Ruhr University Bochum (twice), an AEUIFAI Senior Research Fellow at EUI, a Research Fellow of Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, for which he also served as National Research Development Manager.
“History has to reorient”, as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the g... more “History has to reorient”, as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the global or globalised age, a culture is no longer regarded as a discrete entity, but rather as a hybrid formation that interacts with other cultures in an incessant process of multidirectional exchange. Bringing together Eastern and Western case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, this volume reminds historians that to conduct transcultural analyses they need to be alert to the multiple ways, comic intents included, in which difference is negotiated within contacts and encounters – from selective appropriation to rejection or resistance.
The COST Action ‘People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (... more The COST Action ‘People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492–1923)’, or ‘PIMo’ for short, unites its researchers in the conception of the Mediterranean as a flexible locus for a multitude of cultural transactions. Their primary goal is to restate the region’s significance as a historic site of engagement and exchange. In this volume twelve Mediterranean port cities are considered as places of distance and proximity, conflict and cooperation, autonomy and control.
Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religiou... more Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe.
Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values and trust of "others".
The history of emotions is a field of study that has expanded rapidly in recent years, prompting ... more The history of emotions is a field of study that has expanded rapidly in recent years, prompting a major reassessment of the significance of emotional experience in historical research. A pioneering role was played in this by the Annales School of Historians, including Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch and Fernand Braudel, who argued that history should be written from the ‘bottom up’, exploring the everyday experience of men and women in Europe. The field is now vast, and divided over whether emotions are to be viewed as culturally constructed or biologically determined, as well as the importance that should be attributed to the language and cultural codes that shape and control emotional behaviour. The thematic section of issue 20 of CROMOHS, edited by Giovanni Tarantino and Giuseppe Marcocci, focuses on the intersection between beliefs and emotions in the context of cross-cultural imperial encounters and interactions. The opening historiographic piece has been offered by Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who significantly notes on p. 2: “New scholarly fields develop at the time they do for a reason (or more often reasons), and scholars who are historians of the emotions have several explanations for why the field took off when it did, some of which reflect their own personal trajectories through (and out of) the linguistic turn, gender history, cultural history, body history, and so on. More than one has pointed to an event outside the realm of academe, however, and, in fact, closely related to the politics of 2016: the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Jan Plamper has noted that although scholars were already studying affect, feelings, and the emotions, this event ‘catalytically sped up several interrelated processes that were already underway,’ and helped create ‘the conditions that made the ‘emotions moment’ possible in various disciplines and fields.’ One may not agree with Plamper about the extent of the impact of 9/11 on the field as a whole, but his comments also point to the particular relevance of the conjunction of topics that is the theme of this special issue: Empires, Beliefs, Emotions. Whatever else 9/11 was, it was an event that brought these three together. Both its causes and its consequences have been cross-cultural and connected, the new course Cromohs has taken as a journal.”
Visual Reflections Across the Mediterranean Sea, ed. by Natalie Fritz Natalie and Paola von Wyss Giacosa, 2023
Writing in the Rivista Marittima in 1913, military historian Camillo Manfroni (1863–1935), prof... more Writing in the Rivista Marittima in 1913, military historian Camillo Manfroni (1863–1935), professor of history at the Naval Academy of Livorno and later at the universities of Genoa, Padua and Rome, and senator of the Kingdom of Italy from 1929 to 1935, was
the first person to refer to the destruction, by the Venetian bailo in Constantinople, Girolamo Ferro, of a singular sixteenth-century drawing minutely illustrated with the events and protagonists of a “siege and capture” of Tripoli that never actually happened ...
In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general fr... more In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general from an outsider’s point of view has conjured up an exotic and a-historical image of a poetical, mystical and refined civilization. In Walpole’s Britain, for example, “the argument from the Chinese”—namely, the admiration for a prosperous and densely populated kingdom which did not belong to a single faith—was frequently used in religious disputes when claiming a wider or more coherent policy of tolerance or seeking to cut down the prerogatives of the clerical hierarchies. This chapter explores further Western uses of "the argument from the Chinese" in modern times and through different media (Antonioni; Yanne; Martin).
“History has to reorient”, as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the g... more “History has to reorient”, as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the global or globalised age, a culture is no longer regarded as a discrete entity, but rather as a hybrid formation that interacts with other cultures in an incessant process of multidirectional exchange. Bringing together Eastern and Western case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, this volume reminds historians that to conduct transcultural analyses they need to be alert to the multiple ways, comic intents included, in which difference is negotiated within contacts and encounters – from selective appropriation to rejection or resistance.
The COST Action ‘People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (... more The COST Action ‘People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492–1923)’, or ‘PIMo’ for short, unites its researchers in the conception of the Mediterranean as a flexible locus for a multitude of cultural transactions. Their primary goal is to restate the region’s significance as a historic site of engagement and exchange. In this volume twelve Mediterranean port cities are considered as places of distance and proximity, conflict and cooperation, autonomy and control.
Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religiou... more Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe.
Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values and trust of "others".
The history of emotions is a field of study that has expanded rapidly in recent years, prompting ... more The history of emotions is a field of study that has expanded rapidly in recent years, prompting a major reassessment of the significance of emotional experience in historical research. A pioneering role was played in this by the Annales School of Historians, including Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch and Fernand Braudel, who argued that history should be written from the ‘bottom up’, exploring the everyday experience of men and women in Europe. The field is now vast, and divided over whether emotions are to be viewed as culturally constructed or biologically determined, as well as the importance that should be attributed to the language and cultural codes that shape and control emotional behaviour. The thematic section of issue 20 of CROMOHS, edited by Giovanni Tarantino and Giuseppe Marcocci, focuses on the intersection between beliefs and emotions in the context of cross-cultural imperial encounters and interactions. The opening historiographic piece has been offered by Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who significantly notes on p. 2: “New scholarly fields develop at the time they do for a reason (or more often reasons), and scholars who are historians of the emotions have several explanations for why the field took off when it did, some of which reflect their own personal trajectories through (and out of) the linguistic turn, gender history, cultural history, body history, and so on. More than one has pointed to an event outside the realm of academe, however, and, in fact, closely related to the politics of 2016: the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Jan Plamper has noted that although scholars were already studying affect, feelings, and the emotions, this event ‘catalytically sped up several interrelated processes that were already underway,’ and helped create ‘the conditions that made the ‘emotions moment’ possible in various disciplines and fields.’ One may not agree with Plamper about the extent of the impact of 9/11 on the field as a whole, but his comments also point to the particular relevance of the conjunction of topics that is the theme of this special issue: Empires, Beliefs, Emotions. Whatever else 9/11 was, it was an event that brought these three together. Both its causes and its consequences have been cross-cultural and connected, the new course Cromohs has taken as a journal.”
Visual Reflections Across the Mediterranean Sea, ed. by Natalie Fritz Natalie and Paola von Wyss Giacosa, 2023
Writing in the Rivista Marittima in 1913, military historian Camillo Manfroni (1863–1935), prof... more Writing in the Rivista Marittima in 1913, military historian Camillo Manfroni (1863–1935), professor of history at the Naval Academy of Livorno and later at the universities of Genoa, Padua and Rome, and senator of the Kingdom of Italy from 1929 to 1935, was
the first person to refer to the destruction, by the Venetian bailo in Constantinople, Girolamo Ferro, of a singular sixteenth-century drawing minutely illustrated with the events and protagonists of a “siege and capture” of Tripoli that never actually happened ...
In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general fr... more In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general from an outsider’s point of view has conjured up an exotic and a-historical image of a poetical, mystical and refined civilization. In Walpole’s Britain, for example, “the argument from the Chinese”—namely, the admiration for a prosperous and densely populated kingdom which did not belong to a single faith—was frequently used in religious disputes when claiming a wider or more coherent policy of tolerance or seeking to cut down the prerogatives of the clerical hierarchies. This chapter explores further Western uses of "the argument from the Chinese" in modern times and through different media (Antonioni; Yanne; Martin).
Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination, ed. by Giovanni Tarantino and Paola von Wyss-Giacosa (Leiden: Brill), 2021
The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe, 1100–1700, ed. by Susan Broomhall & Andrew Lynch (Routledge), 2019
The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100-1700 presents the state of the field of pre-mod... more The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100-1700 presents the state of the field of pre-modern emotions during this period, placing particular emphasis on theoretical and methodological aspects of current research. This book serves as a reference to existing research practices in emotions history and advances studies in the field across a range of scholarly approaches. It brings together the work of recognized experts and new voices, and represents a wide range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives from different schools of research practice, including art history, literature and culture, philosophy, linguistics, archaeology and music. Throughout the book, central and recurrent themes in emotional culture within medieval and early modern Europe are highlighted from different angles, and each chapter pays specialist attention to illustrative examples showing theory and method in application. Exploring topics such as love, war, sex and sexuality, death, time, the body and the family in the context of emotional culture, The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100-1700 reflects the sharp rise in scholarship relating to the history of emotions in recent years and is an essential resource for students and researchers of the history of pre-modern emotions.
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, ed. by Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (Oxford and Boston: Wiley Blackwell Press), 2021
This essay explores European thought on philosophy, religion and theology during the eighteenth c... more This essay explores European thought on philosophy, religion and theology during the eighteenth century. It surveys recent debates on the ‘reified opposition’ between Enlightenment and religion and suggests that the Enlightenment needs to be defined more broadly than was once thought.
A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age (1600-1780), ed. by Katie Barclay, David Lemmings and Claire Walker (Bloomsbury), 2018
Carlo Ginzburg (ed.), A Historical Approach to Casuistry: Norms and Exceptions in a Comparative Perspective (Bloomsbury), 2018
The role of a casuist in a Protestant country was inevitably advisory. In seventeenth-century Eng... more The role of a casuist in a Protestant country was inevitably advisory. In seventeenth-century England, for instance, casuistry was generally regarded as being about ‘self-reliance,’ with each believer being expected, albeit with suitable learned guidance, to be his own casuist. The major issues were grace and the assurance of salvation (‘whether a man be a childe of God or no’). English Reformed casuistry was also largely directed at the laity, hence the prevalence of the vernacular. At the end of the seventeenth century, the casuistical tradition was revived by periodical literature, and then, in the eighteenth century, by the prose fiction which in part developed from it. Most Protestant theologians, as Keith Thomas has stressed, gradually began to place much greater emphasis on the sincerity of intention rather than on the sinfulness of following an erroneous conscience. But some religious writers, especially nonconformists like the Sandemanian minister Samuel Pike and the Independent minister Samuel Hayward, carried on trying to regulate their congregations’ conduct, urging them to come up with ‘serious cases of conscience, arising from the difficulties they met with in the course of their experience, and to conceal their names’ (curiously, the practice of submitting queries anonymously had first been encouraged by John Dunton, the founder of The Athenian Mercury, initially called The Athenian Gazette: or Casuistical Mercury). In pre-Revolutionary America, the Sandemanians’ doctrine of non-forbearance, combined with their zealous loyalty to George III, ultimately tore the sect apart. Acknowledging the contingency of religious identity involved conceding that it was legitimate to believe differently and to draw practical wisdom from case ethics.
Per una storia moderna e cosmopolita, eds Alessia Castagnino & Frederic Ieva (Roma, Aracne), 2017
Questo piccolo, certamente inadeguato contributo è offerto in omaggio al Professor Giuseppe Ricup... more Questo piccolo, certamente inadeguato contributo è offerto in omaggio al Professor Giuseppe Ricuperati, insigne settecentista, in occasione del suo ottantesimo compleanno e in segno di profonda stima e gratitudine per i suoi studi e il suo insegnamento. Gli sono ancora molto grato per avermi onorato, ormai tanti anni addietro, della sua partecipazione, come relatore esterno, alla discussione della mia tesi di laurea diretta a Firenze da Antonio Rotondò. Nella sua relazione Ricuperati rilevò come quella tesi fosse maturata “all’interno di una ricerca a più voci cui il prof. Rotondò da anni presta non solo la sua perizia di dotto della res publica literaria europea, ma anche la sua passione civile, la sua coscienza che il lavoro dello storico non è eticamente indifferente e che una morale (se non una religione civica) deve governare un’erudizione che ha il dovere di essere impeccabile”. Pur senza essere riuscito, temo, a corrispondervi del tutto, quel monito così stringente mi accompagna tuttora. Ho presentato una prima versione di questo testo al convegno Words of Violence in Early Modern Italy (Firenze, Palazzo Rucellai, 11 Dicembre 2015) organizzato da Andrea Rizzi e Nick Eckstein con il patrocinio dell’ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Australia).
Focussing on a hanging scroll by Shiba Kōkan (1747–1818) this essay sets out to explore how disas... more Focussing on a hanging scroll by Shiba Kōkan (1747–1818) this essay sets out to explore how disasters, in particular earthquakes and fires, were understood and represented in “the Age of Light,” and how individuals and communities responded to them emotionally. Images of disasters, and ways of dealing with them, have formed part of “circulatory movements” over time and space, raising the question of the degree to which such responses were determined by transcultural entanglements.
Soffermandosi su un rotolo giapponese di tardo Settecento, o forse dei primi dell’Ottocento, questo saggio esplora esplicazioni e rappresentazioni dei disastri naturali nell’"Età dei Lumi" e propone una storia intrecciata di reazioni post-traumatiche che si dipana attraverso culture emozionali lontane ma in contatto tra loro.
The next issue of CROMOHS (21/2016) will offer a critical historiographical survey and discussion... more The next issue of CROMOHS (21/2016) will offer a critical historiographical survey and discussion, accompanied by exemplary case studies, of the various approaches to comparative early modern history that have been theorized and practiced in the last two decades. These range from transcultural and translation studies to global and connected histories. The aim is to unravel, review, and compare the possibilities and limitations of this plurality of relational approaches and methods. Has a change of scale been taking place, or a shift in perspective instead? What are the consequences of adopting a practice of synchronic or diachronic comparison? How can researchers working with languages, concepts and categories that are not part of their sphere of socialization deal with the inescapable challenges of reflexivity that these pose?  We invite ground-breaking research articles that either critically address the history of relational approaches to historical and cultural studies, or apply a possible variant of such perspectives (comparative, connected, global history, etc.) to a research theme (political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, and so on), combined with a reflection on its theoretical implications. Any geographic area may be considered, while the time span covered by the issue will be from 1400 to 1900. The opening historiographical essay will be by Prof. Dr. Margrit Pernau, Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Center for the History of Emotions), Berlin. Submissions must be sent no later than January 14, 2017 to: giovanni.tarantino@uwa.edu.au and/or g.marcocci@unitus.it. Articles should be no more than 7,000 words in length, notes included. Proposals should include a c.500 word abstract and a short biography of the author. Please prepare your essays using the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/), using footnotes rather than endnotes. Authors will be informed as to whether or not their articles have been accepted for publication within two months, following evaluation by two internationally renowned referees. The issue will be published online by April 2017.
The Florence Conference of SHE aimed to contribute profound, critical and balanced vistas to the ... more The Florence Conference of SHE aimed to contribute profound, critical and balanced vistas to the current, at times heated, political debates about migration. An emotions perspective is particularly helpful in this respect. All kinds of feelings shape peoples’ movements around the globe and the ways in which newcomers are heartily welcomed, coldly brushed off or fiercely attacked. Exploring these hopes, furies, anxieties and sympathies allows us to better understand how actors deal with, respond to and live through certain situations, trajectories and encounters. And such comprehension will – we trust – help us to find sounder modes of navigating diverse societies, modes that will benefit all parties involved. That is why we brought research on migration and mobility into a conversation with the study of emotions, and vice versa. Papers ranged from the ancient to the contemporary, and geographically from Japan across what used to be Persia and Yugoslavia to Ravenna, the Caribbean, England, Senegal, Turkey, Mongolia, South Africa, and Australia, to name but a few countries and places. In terms of disciplinary perspectives the conference facilitated conversations between history, literary studies, sociology, media studies, legal studies and geography. Topic-wise, the individual panels addressed issues like racism, writing in exile, religious emotions, family and displacement, settler colonialism, affect and materiality as well as filmic representations of migration.
Visual Grammars of Globalization is a seminar series jointly
promoted by the Cost Action CA18140 ... more Visual Grammars of Globalization is a seminar series jointly promoted by the Cost Action CA18140 ‘People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923)’, or PIMo, and Centro Interuniversitario di Studi di Storia Globale GLOBHIS. The series focuses on the cultural dimension of images, the study of the material components subsuming them, the representation of objects, the historicity of vision and the importance of visual and material sources in the investigation, description and deciphering of ‘connected histories’. The title of the group is intended to evoke the ‘grammars of identity/alterity’ of the late Gerd Baumann, and to share his commitment to handling the concepts of identity and alterity with caution, reinterpreting them as ‘mutually constitutive or potentially dialogical’.
This seminar series is a joint initiative of the Society for the History of Emotions, the Austral... more This seminar series is a joint initiative of the Society for the History of Emotions, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100‒1800 (CHE), the Italian National Research Council Institute for the History of Philosophical and Scientific Thought in the Modern Age (CNR/ISPF), the Chair of Intellectual History at the European University Institute (EUI), the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University (IAS-CEU), and the Centre for the Study of Emotions in Cross-Cultural Exchange (ECCE, Zagreb).
This online exhibition is available at <www.paperinmotion.org>
The high-resolution catalogue c... more This online exhibition is available at <www.paperinmotion.org>
This exhibition consists of 93 different documents in Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and Armenian, from archives in the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Egypt, and Malta, all of which house paper-based records of financial and commercial activity between the late fourteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. The exhibition thus samples some of the most relevant paper-based formats and documentary genres used to codify commercial information and financial value by different communities around the Mediterranean. They illustrate relations among these eminently Mediterranean communities as well as their deals with the north of Europe. Above all our exhibition intends to look into the ways in which these documents register information and values that go beyond mere economic data and pertain to other disciplines such as diaspora studies, the history of emotions, cultural studies and the history of communication. More than on the merely domestic circulation of these documents, we focus upon the formats, genres, and strategies employed for the circulation of such documents across linguistic, cultural, political, ethnic, and religious communities, and what these transnational and interdisciplinary entanglements entailed in terms of their formal features, their semiotic nature, and their functions. The exhibition proposes, in conclusion, a selection of paper traces left behind by the movement of people, objects, and ideas across the Mediterranean, and as such, it addresses some of the most important objectives of the PIMo COST Aaction, which include:
Redrawing geographical and disciplinary boundaries in innovative ways.;
Developing new perspectives for the study of circulation, dislocation, and dispossession across a region of historical significance and contemporary urgency;.
Multiplying and cross-referencing primary sources in different partner countries in order to respond adequately to the complexity of comparative historiography within the Mediterranean;.
Bringing together researchers from multiple academic traditions, areas, and disciplines including literary, art, cultural, political and material history.;
Providing an alternative history of the ‘Great Sea’ by looking at the ‘Mediterranean in the world’ and by introducing the study of emotion, firstly to its the history of human dislocation, and secondly as a site of hitherto unwritten history;.
Building a functional and highly- creative interdisciplinary network of collaborators from around the world that will continue a carry on the conversation after the life of the grant reaches the end of its duration.
This project has been developed and made possible thanks to the generous support and the valuable contributions of the scholars, the archivists, the librarians and the administrators of each of the participating archives and libraries, all of whom have provided images, information and expertise for the captions, as well as essays to introduce and contextualisze the documents and the institutions that curate them. A project of this nature must perforce be the result of enthusiastic and devoted teamwork, and we want to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all those involved, and mostlyin particular to Matteo Calcagni (European University Institute) and Chiara Marcheschi (Prato State Archives) for their invaluable contribution to the concept and the curation of the exhibition. Without them, none of this would not have been possible.
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Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values and trust of "others".
Papers by Giovanni Tarantino
the first person to refer to the destruction, by the Venetian bailo in Constantinople, Girolamo Ferro, of a singular sixteenth-century drawing minutely illustrated with the events and protagonists of a “siege and capture” of Tripoli that never actually happened ...
Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values and trust of "others".
the first person to refer to the destruction, by the Venetian bailo in Constantinople, Girolamo Ferro, of a singular sixteenth-century drawing minutely illustrated with the events and protagonists of a “siege and capture” of Tripoli that never actually happened ...
Soffermandosi su un rotolo giapponese di tardo Settecento, o forse dei primi dell’Ottocento, questo saggio esplora esplicazioni e rappresentazioni dei disastri naturali nell’"Età dei Lumi" e propone una storia intrecciata di reazioni post-traumatiche che si dipana attraverso culture emozionali lontane ma in contatto tra loro.

We invite ground-breaking research articles that either critically address the history of relational approaches to historical and cultural studies, or apply a possible variant of such perspectives (comparative, connected, global history, etc.) to a research theme (political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, and so on), combined with a reflection on its theoretical implications. Any geographic area may be considered, while the time span covered by the issue will be from 1400 to 1900. The opening historiographical essay will be by Prof. Dr. Margrit Pernau, Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Center for the History of Emotions), Berlin.
Submissions must be sent no later than January 14, 2017 to: giovanni.tarantino@uwa.edu.au and/or g.marcocci@unitus.it.
Articles should be no more than 7,000 words in length, notes included. Proposals should include a c.500 word abstract and a short biography of the author. Please prepare your essays using the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/), using footnotes rather than endnotes. Authors will be informed as to whether or not their articles have been accepted for publication within two months, following evaluation by two internationally renowned referees. The issue will be published online by April 2017.
promoted by the Cost Action CA18140 ‘People in Motion: Entangled
Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923)’, or PIMo, and Centro Interuniversitario di Studi di Storia Globale GLOBHIS.
The series focuses on the cultural dimension of images, the study
of the material components subsuming them, the representation of objects, the historicity of vision and the importance of visual and material sources in the investigation, description and deciphering of ‘connected histories’. The title of the group is intended to evoke the ‘grammars of identity/alterity’ of the late Gerd Baumann, and to share his commitment to handling the concepts of identity and alterity with caution, reinterpreting them as ‘mutually constitutive or potentially dialogical’.
Series convener: Giovanni Tarantino, PIMo Action Chair
http://www.peopleinmotion-costaction.org/
https://globhis.wordpress.com/
The high-resolution catalogue can be downloaded from <https://www.paperinmotion.org/download/2021_PAPER_IN_MOTION.pdf>
This exhibition consists of 93 different documents in Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and Armenian, from archives in the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Egypt, and Malta, all of which house paper-based records of financial and commercial activity between the late fourteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. The exhibition thus samples some of the most relevant paper-based formats and documentary genres used to codify commercial information and financial value by different communities around the Mediterranean. They illustrate relations among these eminently Mediterranean communities as well as their deals with the north of Europe. Above all our exhibition intends to look into the ways in which these documents register information and values that go beyond mere economic data and pertain to other disciplines such as diaspora studies, the history of emotions, cultural studies and the history of communication. More than on the merely domestic circulation of these documents, we focus upon the formats, genres, and strategies employed for the circulation of such documents across linguistic, cultural, political, ethnic, and religious communities, and what these transnational and interdisciplinary entanglements entailed in terms of their formal features, their semiotic nature, and their functions. The exhibition proposes, in conclusion, a selection of paper traces left behind by the movement of people, objects, and ideas across the Mediterranean, and as such, it addresses some of the most important objectives of the PIMo COST Aaction, which include:
Redrawing geographical and disciplinary boundaries in innovative ways.;
Developing new perspectives for the study of circulation, dislocation, and dispossession across a region of historical significance and contemporary urgency;.
Multiplying and cross-referencing primary sources in different partner countries in order to respond adequately to the complexity of comparative historiography within the Mediterranean;.
Bringing together researchers from multiple academic traditions, areas, and disciplines including literary, art, cultural, political and material history.;
Providing an alternative history of the ‘Great Sea’ by looking at the ‘Mediterranean in the world’ and by introducing the study of emotion, firstly to its the history of human dislocation, and secondly as a site of hitherto unwritten history;.
Building a functional and highly- creative interdisciplinary network of collaborators from around the world that will continue a carry on the conversation after the life of the grant reaches the end of its duration.
This project has been developed and made possible thanks to the generous support and the valuable contributions of the scholars, the archivists, the librarians and the administrators of each of the participating archives and libraries, all of whom have provided images, information and expertise for the captions, as well as essays to introduce and contextualisze the documents and the institutions that curate them. A project of this nature must perforce be the result of enthusiastic and devoted teamwork, and we want to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all those involved, and mostlyin particular to Matteo Calcagni (European University Institute) and Chiara Marcheschi (Prato State Archives) for their invaluable contribution to the concept and the curation of the exhibition. Without them, none of this would not have been possible.