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East Central Europe and Ireland
Political, Economic, and Social Interconnections, 1000–1850
This book explores the broad scope of political economic and social aspects of relations between Central Europe (focused on Poland and the lands of the Czechs) and Ireland. Taking a longitudinal approach this study charts the interaction between the western and the central-eastern peripheries of Europe from the Middle Ages to the period after the Third Partition of Poland-Lithuania in 1795. The authors examine how the relationship between the geographically opposite ends of Europe evolved. Shaped by the shifts of ‘political tectonic plates’ they argue that the evolution can be described in general terms: from a largely unidirectional to an interconnected chain of events. This book demonstrates similarities and analyses differences in a complex yet unexplored past of the three emergent nations; nations which in the public perception were overshadowed by their mighty neighbours for far too long.
The Rural World in the Sixteenth Century
Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe
The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of profound change the threshold between the ‘medieval’ and the ‘modern’ as new technologies were introduced distant lands explored oceanic trade routes opened and innovative ideas pursued in fields as varied as politics science philosophy law and religion. But sweeping transformations also occurred in the rural world profoundly altering the countryside in both appearance and practices. Crucially for historians there is abundant documentary evidence for these changes but while they are less well-documented their impact can also be traced archaeologically.
This cutting-edge volume is the first to explore the archaeology of the rural world across the ‘long’ sixteenth century and to investigate the changing innovations that were seen in landscape technology agriculture and husbandry during this period. Drawing together contributions from across Europe and from a range of archaeological disciplines including zooarchaeology archaeobotany landscape archaeology material culture studies and technology this collection of essays sheds new light on a key period of innovation that was a significant precursor to modern economies and societies.
Des migrants invisibles ?
Les Français dans les espaces frontaliers des Pays-Bas habsbourgeois, xvi e-xvii e siècle (Artois, Hainaut, Flandre Wallonne)
During the Modern Period the condition of the French migrant is fragile. He comes from a suspicious community that does not exist in substance that of the "French" and is a part of an evolving category the one of people without "rights". His foreign origin can also be an advantage and he can make it work in his favour. He cannot be defined as being from a State yet his condition is inseparable from the international conjuncture and the construction of evolving modern States. Actually to question the stakes in the reception of the French migrants is an open window to a better understanding of the social and political culture of the Spanish Low Countries. Indeed this work probes the mechanisms of self-definition in border provinces within a catholic global empire the Spanish Monarchy in front of France. The exercise of power and the capacity for action appear there as the result of an equilibrium in which all social actors are negotiating their position. Most of all it is the result of a dialogue fueled by the protagonists of History themselves.
Ouvertures à la française: migrations musicales dans l’espace germanique 1660 – 1730
"Une musique indéchiffrable pour toute autre nation." Depuis Rousseau la musique française d’Ancien Régime est vue comme une étrange exception culturelle dans une Europe baroque toute acquise à la musique italienne. Cependant les nombreux exemples d’acclimatation du style français dans l’espace germanique entre 1660 et 1730 de Georg Muffat à Johann Sebastian Bach en passant par Johann Sigismund Kusser et Georg Philipp Telemann nous invitent à ouvrir les yeux sur un phénomène trop longtemps méconnu. La migration de nombreux musiciens français dans l’Empire leur engagement dans de prestigieuses chapelles ducales et princières la circulation de sources musicales manuscrites et imprimées sont autant de phénomènes essentiels que ce livre aborde pour la première fois de façon conjointe et systématique. À la croisée de l’histoire des migrations de l’anthropologie historique et de la musicologie il déploie les routes empruntées par la musique et les musiciens français dans l’espace germanique parcourt leur destin et reconstruit leur vie quotidienne dans ce nouvel environnement. L’ouvrage s’organise en cinq grands chapitres consacrés à l’Europe galante comme marché du travail à l’administration de la musique française aux carrières et aux mobilités des musiciens à la circulation des sources musicales et à l’invention allemande du style français.
Transregional Territories
Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond
The early modern world was one of movement contact and exchange. Yet this does not mean that it was borderless. On the contrary connection existed only when people moved along and across the separations between polities religions and mentalities. So in order to understand early modern connections one also needs to analyse the boundaries that accompanied them.In Transregional Territories the early modern Low Countries are chosen as a ‘laboratory’ for studying border formation and border management through the lens of transregional history. Eight different cases highlight the impact of boundaries on the actions and strategies of individuals and governments. Crossing borders in early modern times was not merely an act of negating a territorial division but rather a moment of intimate interaction with the separation itself. As such this volume illustrates how borders forced historical actors to adapt their behaviour and how historians can use a transregional vantage point to better understand these changes.The cases are presented by leading border specialists and scholars of the early modern Low Countries: Fernando Chavarría Múgica Victor Enthoven Raingard Esser Yves Junot Marie Kervyn Christel Annemieke Romein and Patricia Subirade.Bram De Ridder Violet Soen Werner Thomas and Sophie Verreyken are all members of the Early Modern History Research Group of the KU Leuven. Together they have published extensively on transregional history and the history of the early modern Low Countries grouped under the label of transregionalhistory.eu.
Daily Life on the Istrian Frontier
Living on a Borderland in the Sixteenth Century
The Istrian peninsula located at the head of the Adriatic Sea has long been a land of divisions. Shared today between the modern-day countries of Italy Slovenia and Croatia the region during the sixteenth century was divided between an urban coastline dominated by the Republic of Venice and a rural inland that fell under the sway of the Austrian Habsburgs. The subject populations of the peninsula - predominantly Slavic Croatians and Slovenians - thus found themselves split between these rival powers despite their shared cultural background. The result was frequent and violent clashes over boundary markers pastures and forests which added to the ravages of war famine and plague led to a severe regional depopulation.
This volume also explores the arrival and subsequent social impact of a new wave of immigrants to Istria set against the backdrop of these sixteenth-century tensions. The fearsome Morlaks Slavic speakers who had fled north from the Balkan hinterlands in the face of the Ottoman threat were invited into Istria by both Venetians and Habsburgs as a way of replenishing the dwindling population. These new arrivals lived an opportunistic lifestyle that often bordered on banditry creating inevitable tensions with Istria’s existing population. Even so some were able to integrate fully into their new homeland. Through a careful analysis of the geographically small but socially and politically dynamic Istrian frontier this volume sheds new light on to the complexity of life in a border region and offers a unique insight into what life was like for ordinary people struggling to live everyday lives at the very end of the Middle Ages.
The Greeks of Venice, 1498–1600
Immigration, Settlement, and Integration
People have always immigrated in search of better working and living conditions to escape persecution reconnect with family or simply for the experience. This volume traces the history of Venice’s Greek population during the formative years between 1498 and 1600 when thousands left their homelands for Venice. It describes how Greeks established new communal and social networks and follows their transition from outsiders to insiders (though not quite Venetians) through an approach that offers a comparative perspective between the ‘native’ and the immigrant. It places Greeks within the context of multi-cultural multi-ethnic and multi-lingual Venice. Personal stories are interwoven throughout for a more intimate account of how people lived worked prayed and formed new social networks. These accounts have been drawn from a variety of sources collected from the Venetian state archives the archives of the Venetian church and documentation held by the Hellenic Institute of Venice. Notarial documents petitions government and church records registries of marriages and deaths and census data form part of the collected material discussed here. Above all this study aims to reconstruct the lives of the largest ethnic and Christian minority in early modern Venice and to trace the journey of all immigrants from foreigner to local.