Naslov
Renaissance Ships in the Adriatic: Mobile Cross- Cultural Systems

Autori
Sardelić, Mirko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Mjesto i datum
Oxford, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 23.06.2017. - 24.06.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Renaissance ships, Adriatic, Cultural System

Sažetak
The ship is a system consisting of carefully- designed physical spaces and natural elements, together with social, emotional, and cross- cultural components all interacting on board. I suggest that a strategic juxtaposition of Renaissance ships and cities is useful. As I have recently proposed, ships are smaller, but no less complex cultural units than cities. Vessels are the actual carriers of cultural, intellectual, and trade exchanges between cities. But in addition, ships constitute a world of their own, which shares many – perhaps even all – of the features of the early modern city. In my ongoing research, I am considering how ships connected and divided people, providing them with new experiences, ideas, affiliations and identities ; ships were, in this period, the most active agents of cross- cultural exchange in both peaceful and confrontational contacts. The characteristic mobility and confinement of ships makes them a most dramatic and intense cross-cultural system. The sources for my historical research are mostly pilgrim accounts, custom books, and city statutes. However, the ship remains an important configuration of cultural exchange in our modern world. This discussion can therefore also evolve in highly contemporary and local terms to consider the growing influx of refugees to Southeast Europe, and (more generally) to explore international (space)ships, for example, which demonstrate almost identical problems of design, materials, confinement, cargos (including wanted and unwanted life forms), and cross-cultural relations. The history of the ship in South East Europe therefore provides a useful paradigm for thinking about contemporary relationships between space and cross-cultural exchange.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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