CromohsPub Date : 2022-06-08DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-13653
G. Mariani
{"title":"Inexcusabiles","authors":"G. Mariani","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-13653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-13653","url":null,"abstract":"Review of \u0000Alberto Frigo, ed., Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period (Cham: Springer, 2020) \u0000reviewed by Giacomo Mariani","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90142756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-10-28DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-13190
Kathryn M. de Luna
{"title":"Amassing Global History","authors":"Kathryn M. de Luna","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-13190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-13190","url":null,"abstract":"This essay takes as its framework the competing definitions of ‘global’ as a concept through which we can reconsider the scope of global history. More specifically, it advocates for the adoption of truly global archives, such as the historical information embedded in language, by the field. Such a methodological move will generate historical scholarship that better situates the impact of oral societies in global history on their own terms. \u0000Cover image caption: Wooden Yokes used in coffles, Senegal, ca. 1789. Thomas Clarkson, Letters on the slave-trade, and the state of the natives in those parts of Africa […] contiguous to Fort St. Louis (London, 1791) plate 3, facing p. 37, detail. Copy in Library Company of Philadelphia. Under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89358730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-12844
N. Rabbat
{"title":"The Global Phenomenon of Islam Through the Lens of Late Antiquity","authors":"N. Rabbat","doi":"10.36253/cromohs-12844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-12844","url":null,"abstract":"The global reach of Islam is a poorly theorised historical phenomenon. This essay focuses on the evolving conceptualisation of Late Antiquity as a framework for the inclusion of Islam in a West-oriented, though universally applied, periodisation. My argument, indebted to Garth Fowden, is that Islam came out of late antiquity but brought in “Eastern” epistemologies to the mix in order to construct its own direction at its own pace. \u0000Cover image caption: A segment of the remaining frieze on the facade of the Mshatta Palace near Amman, Jordan, dated to the 740s and ascribed to the Caliph Walid II (743-44). Photo Nasser Rabbat.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88484611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12587
Rosita D'amora
{"title":"An Interview with Giancarlo Casale","authors":"Rosita D'amora","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12587","url":null,"abstract":"Giancarlo Casale is Chair of Early Modern Mediterranean History at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as a permanent member of the history faculty at the University of Minnesota. His new book, Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe will be released in summer 2021 from the University of California Press. Casale is also the author of award-winning Ottoman Age of Exploration (Oxford, 2011), and since 2010 has served as executive editor of the Journal of Early Modern History.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"23 1","pages":"169-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43316740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12002
Stefan Schöch
{"title":"Stefan Bauer, The Invention of Papal History, Oxford University Press 2020","authors":"Stefan Schöch","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12002","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Stefan Bauer, The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio Between Renaissance and Catholic Reform, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"23 1","pages":"179-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48117975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12198
David Do Paço
{"title":"Remarks on Foreignness in Eighteenth-Century German Cookbooks","authors":"David Do Paço","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12198","url":null,"abstract":"Social history has recently rediscussed the notion of foreignness in early modern times. In particular, Simona Cerutti has introduced the idea that the foreigner was not so much ‘the one who comes from elsewhere’ as the one who did not belong enough to a specific social group in a given moment and territory. According to Cerutti, the foreigner was the one who had no access to property, no civic rights or no family bonds where he or she operated, and on which he or she could rely. Cerutti then moved the focus away from studying people coming from elsewhere to a ‘state of foreignness’ (condition d’extranéité) that was specific of socially – but not necessary economically – unempowered people (personnes misérables). She shifted the attention from the normative framework to instead study practices. If we are to transfer this methodology from social history to the history of food, it invites us to consider as foreign what was not usually available in a market, not usually used in a cuisine, or not usually present around a table. This leads us to question our present obsessions regarding the origin of a product, its name, and the ways of cooking it according to an alleged tradition and identity. Such criteria were not necessarily relevant in eighteenthcentury Europe where the terroir did not exist as such, where authenticity was not yet a concern, and where identity and belonging were defined differently, or not exclusively, from a national perspective. The narrative conveyed by cookbooks allows us to examine the categories their authors created and adjusted according to the","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"23 1","pages":"44-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43807632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12730
Geri Della Rocca De Candal
{"title":"Paolo Sachet, Publishing for the Popes, Brill 2020","authors":"Geri Della Rocca De Candal","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12730","url":null,"abstract":"Review of \u0000Paolo Sachet, Publishing for the Popes: The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing (1527–1555) (Leiden: Brill, 2020)","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"23 1","pages":"194-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43897377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12025
José María Pérez Fernández
{"title":"Paper in Motion: Communication, Knowledge and Power: Case Studies for an Interdisciplinary Approach","authors":"José María Pérez Fernández","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12025","url":null,"abstract":"This essay intends to use a series of case studies to exemplify the role of paper as (1) material medium for communication and consequently for the establishment of human communities and institutions, including the normative patterns employed in their administration and the emotional ties that generated and pervaded them, and (2) as a trope that denotes the nature and the function of the information, emotions and values it is used to record and convey. After a survey of the current state of the art, the case studies will illustrate how the different uses and functions of paper determined strategies and methods employed in the administration of the movement of people, ideas, and goods, and in the creation of complex networks (political, economic, religious, and intellectual) across the Mediterranean and beyond. There will be a particular focus upon the circulation of texts and documents involved in the articulation of discursive varieties for the expression of both subjective and collective emotional identities and for the establishment of the norms that regulated their public and social dimensions.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"23 1","pages":"81-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49625197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12027
J. Weis
{"title":"The Genealogy of a Collection: Working with Manuscript Library Catalogues","authors":"J. Weis","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12027","url":null,"abstract":"In 1773 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, at that time librarian of the ducal library in Wolfenbüttel, criticised his predecessors of only being interested in the history of the library’s augmentation, of the library’s „genealogy“. According to the famous writer, former librarians were so fixated on the catalogues that they forgot the real purpose of telling a collection’s history: showing how it contributed to scholarship. Of course, Lessing has a point, the history of a collection and its holding institution should not be told simply by enumerating objects, but he might have underestimated the potential of catalogues and book lists as sources for the history of scholarship, indeed the history of knowledge. Library catalogues should not only be seen as valuable sources for the reconstruction of an as-is state of the library at a specific moment of the collection’s life but that a much broader perspective can be taken. Using the example of the Wolfenbüttel manuscript catalogues dating from the mid-17th to the 18th century, the catalogues can be read as behavioural guidelines, as an instrument for representation, as a witness for scholarly practices or as legal papers. Just as for literary documents, they invite to read between the lines, to analyse their specific style as well as to discover the different communicative strategies and hidden messages. Using Lessing’s image, the catalogues help with the composition of an enhanced genealogy, positioning every item into a network of objects, texts, practices, and ideas.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"23 1","pages":"135-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44066259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}