Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities

ISBN-13: 9781032244440 / Mixed media product / 2023 / 568 str.

Opis

This two-volume collection significantly advances the study of mobilities, understood as the movement of ideas, objects, people and texts in past and present societies as well as in different geographical contexts.

Spis treści

Volume 1: Theories, Methods, and Ideas  Introduction to Volume 1: Theories, Methods, and Ideas  Section 1: Theories and Methods  1. "Moving Textuality" in Early Modern Europe  2. The Challenge of Mobility for Commodity Chains: Time, Actors, and Value from an Historical Perspective  3. Mobilizing Pictures: The History of Science through the Lens of Mobility  4. Gendered Mobilities: Spaces, Images and Power across the Mediterranean (16^th-20^th centuries)  5. Handling Distances as a Key Factor in Social Power Dynamics  6. Map-mobilities: Expanding the Field  7. Narrative Mobilities: Moving Texts from Representation to Practice  Afterword  Section 2: Ideas  8. Mobility: The Word and the Thing  9., Tyrannical Mobility, Dictatorial Mobility  10. The Anglo-Venetian Moment: Political and Legal Representations between the Republic of Venice and England in the Early-Modern Age  11. Mechanics, Scholars and Objects: The Spread of Aristotle’s Philosophy and Its Exponents in Early Modern Europe  12.Synchronicity and Imitation of Practices of Order and Political Violence before and after WWI  Afterword  Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts  Introduction to Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts  Section 1: Objects  1. Textiles in Imperial Landscapes: Tracing the Mobility of Textile Products and Craftspeople in First-Millennium BCE Assyria  2. Renaissance female luxury garments on the move: when brides’ silks brocades ended up dressing ecclesiastics (Florence, 14^th-15^th centuries)  3. Political Objects in Motion across 19^th-century Europe  4. The Repatriation and Uneven Biomobilities of Human Remains  5. Beyond the Immobility of "Museum Pieces": Variations on Mobility in the Collections of a Museum of Geography  Afterword  Section 2: People  6. Amoveatur ut promoveatur: the Careers of Military Judges in Italy and the Colonies  7. Re-enacting Community Belonging through Emotions and Memories: German Expellees’ and Italian Repatriates’ Circular Letters  8. Entrepreneurial Mobility between Italy and South America: The Case of Argentina  9. Slow mobility: Processes of Agency among Refugees Eating and Living at the Tiburtina Station in Rome  10. Exploring Tourism ‘Slow’ Mobilities  Afterword  Section 3: Texts  11. Jewish Law and Greek Science: Translation- and Mobility-Studies in light of the Ancient Greek Translation of the Old Testament  12. Movable Laws? The "extra edictum" Reproduction and Circulation of the Leges Langobardorum in Early Medieval Italy  13. A Tool for the Mobility of Texts, Persons, and Ideas: The Vocabulista in Arabico  14. The Mobility of Greek Manuscripts between East and West: The Biblioteca Marciana in Venice as a Case Study  15. Communication and Religious Mobility: A European Intelligence Network, 1560-1590  Afterword