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New Books in Eastern European StudiesPaul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)Paul Nelles (Carleton University) and Rosa Salzberg (University of Trento) talk about early modern culture, travel and the joys of editing their new volume, Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged that Europe from the Middle Ages onwards saw increasing flows of people and goods. Movement also connected the continent more closely to other parts of the world. The pre...2023-01-0233 min
New Books in Western European StudiesPaul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)Paul Nelles (Carleton University) and Rosa Salzberg (University of Trento) talk about early modern culture, travel and the joys of editing their new volume, Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged that Europe from the Middle Ages onwards saw increasing flows of people and goods. Movement also connected the continent more closely to other parts of the world. The pre...2023-01-0233 min
New Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyPaul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)Paul Nelles (Carleton University) and Rosa Salzberg (University of Trento) talk about early modern culture, travel and the joys of editing their new volume, Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged that Europe from the Middle Ages onwards saw increasing flows of people and goods. Movement also connected the continent more closely to other parts of the world. The pre...2023-01-0233 min
New Books in Early Modern HistoryPaul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)Paul Nelles (Carleton University) and Rosa Salzberg (University of Trento) talk about early modern culture, travel and the joys of editing their new volume, Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged that Europe from the Middle Ages onwards saw increasing flows of people and goods. Movement also connected the continent more closely to other parts of the world. The pre...2023-01-0233 min
New Books in CommunicationsPaul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)Paul Nelles (Carleton University) and Rosa Salzberg (University of Trento) talk about early modern culture, travel and the joys of editing their new volume, Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged that Europe from the Middle Ages onwards saw increasing flows of people and goods. Movement also connected the continent more closely to other parts of the world. The pre...2023-01-0233 min
Epidemie nel tempoLa peste, i medici, i santiCon questa puntata, diamo avvio a una serie di approfondimenti sulle pestilenze che colpirono le città del Nord Italia tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Abbiamo imparato a conoscere molto bene, in tempi recenti, la geografia della Lombardia orientale. Cremona, Bergamo e Brescia sono state, infatti, al centro dell’attenzione mediatica, in ragione della violenza con cui Covid-19 ha colpito quelle città e le loro province agli inizi del 2020. In un passato più remoto, per la precisione tra XVI e XVII secolo, l’Italia settentrionale dovette affrontare crisi epidemiche ancora più gravi, che ebbero effetti molto pesanti sulla società dell’epoca, per decenni e p...2020-07-1612 minEpidemie nel tempoIl “modello italiano” nella lotta alla pesteNon sono in molti a conoscere la cosiddetta “peste di San Carlo”, che colpì l’Italia settentrionale tra il 1576 e il 1577, causando decine di migliaia di vittime, soprattutto tra Venezia e Milano. A differenza delle ben più note pestilenze del 1348 e del 1630, la più grave epidemia di peste del Cinquecento non possiede un narratore che l’abbia raccontata con la maestria e la notorietà di un Boccaccio o di un Manzoni. Ciò nonostante, le fonti d’archivio sono ricche di informazioni e di suggestioni su questo tragico episodio: dalla viva voce dei testimoni dell’epoca, veniamo a conoscenza di paure, conflitti e rimed...2020-07-0912 min