For almost two years now, a group of medievalists at Heidelberg University has been conducting research on maritime predation in a project financed by the German research Council and entitled “Medieval Maritime Predation: A Database Supported Analysis of Mediterranean Violence” (https://hcdh.hypotheses.org/451). Utilising the eponymous ‘Database of Medieval Maritime Predation’ as a tool, the project members are collecting and analysing documents from the Archives of Barcelona, Valencia, Mallorca, Genoa, Venice and Malta to track maritime predators from East to West and vice versa.

For the second anniversary of our project, we have organised an international workshop on the 30th and 31st of October 2024. Its main aim is to bring together historians working with quantitative medieval sources of the Mediterranean that convey information on maritime mobility.

An exchange of ideas on this systematic topic (“Medieval Maritime Mobility and its Sources”) is both innovative and promising. The meeting will also be a good opportunity to present and discuss our database with the participants.

Programme :

Wednesday 30 October

09:30: Nikolas Jaspert (Heidelberg): Opening and introduction

09.45: Victòria Burguera and Laurin Herberich (Heidelberg): “Accessing Medieval Maritime Predation”

Quantitative sources for the Study of Maritime Mobility
Chair: Alexandra Sapoznik (London)

10:30: Giovanni Ceccarelli (Milan): “People moving and moving commodities: insights from insurance sources”

11.45: Alessio Sopracasa (Paris): “Moving people to and from Constantinople at the end of the Byzantine era: the unpublished deeds of a Venetian notary”

12:30: Tobias Daniels (München): “The Roman customs registers in the Western Mediterranean context”

Approaching Mobility in the Western Mediterranean
Chair: Roser Salicrú i Lluch (Barcelona)

15:00: Raúl González Arévalo (Granada): “A sea of sources. The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada and the Genoese navigation: systematization and results”

15:45: David Igual Luis (Albacete): “Sources for measuring port movement: Valencia in the second half of the 15th century”

16:30: Lluís Sales i Favà (London): “Taxes on trade and circulation of commodities in Late Medieval Catalonia: the Lleudes”

17:45: Enrico Basso (Torino): “A sea of documents: maritime mobility in the sources of the Genoese Archives”

18:30: Angela Orlandi (Firenze): “Mediterranean mobility: Datini’s records and their potential”

Thursday 31 October

09:00: Presentation of the “Database of Medieval Maritime Predation” (DMMP),
“Risky business: Pricing, governance, and integration in European insurance markets, c. 1400-c. 1870”,
“MedEscl (Corpus Documental sobre l’esclavitud mediterrània als Països Catalans, segles XIV-XVI)”

Approaching Mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean
Chair: Dominique Valérian (Paris)

11.00: Damien Coulon (Strasbourg): “Notarial contracts by the thousands: mobility and routes of Catalan merchants to the Levant in the late Middle Ages”

11:45: Frédéric Bauden (Liège): “Maritime predators in Mamluk documentary and narrative sources”

14:00: Nicholas Coureas (Cyprus): “Notarial deeds from Famagusta concerning maritime associations and partnerships for purchasing cargo shares on board merchant ships, 1296-1310”

14:45: Aristea Gratsea (Rethymno): “Cretan shipping: Insights from Venetian Archives (15th-16th centuries)”

16:00: Nicolò Villanti (Duisburg-Essen): “Maritime shipping and life at sea: Eastern Adriatic sources (XIV-XV century)”

16:45: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Wien): “Sailors to Byzantium. Quantifying and visualising maritime mobility within the medieval Romania”

17:30 Closing discussion and end

Informations pratiques :

Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften – Akademie des Landes Baden-Württemberg
30.10.2024 – 31.10.2024

DFG-Project « Medieval Maritime Predation: A Database Supported Analysis of Mediterranean Violence » (Historisches Seminar Heidelberg)

Source : H-Soz-Kult