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Nation and municipal identity in Mediterranean space during the
Middle Ages Erasmus IP "Myths, Nation-Building, Political Identities”
Siegen, March 2011
Enrica Salvatori, University of Pisa
Structure
Why we are here?
Nation and Middle Ages
Nation and Early Middle Ages
High Middle Ages in Mediterranean Sea
Conclusion
Why are we here?
The Crisis of European Identity
The Persistence of the Nation model
The Vitality of Ethnic claims
The use/abuse of History
We need to understand Past and Present in a European and Mediterranean scenario
Nation and Middle Ages
[Geary, The Myth of Nations]
A Poisoned Landscape: Nationalism
Philology and Nationalism
Ethnoarcaeology
The Toxic Waste: People = Nation
Nation and Early Middle Ages
[Geary, The Myth of Nations]
Gentes and Populus
Barbarians and Classical Ethnography
Barbarians Ethnogenesis
What is the Identity of a People?
Nations in High Middle Ages
Communities and peoples in High Middle Ages
Migrations and Commerce
Christians and Muslims in a fragmented Scenario
High Middle Ages Mediterranean Sea
[Abulafia, Pisan Colonies; Salvatori, Corsairs’ Crews]
Town as Nation
Consulates, colonies, emporia, fundaca
Identity at home and abroad
Identity and religion “on board”
High Middle Ages Medieterranean Sea
[Jacoby, From Byzantium to Latin Romania]
More than a “town”: West and East
Greeks and Latins in the XIII century
Political scenario and commercial practice
Conclusion
Could we speak of nationes and identity in the Middle Ages? Yes, but we HAVE TO stay away from the temptation
to find continuity between nationes and state/nation
to look at religious conflicts OR dialogues in order to promote current political strategy
to look at medieval European space as the birthplace of the present Europe
Past is a distant country
Historians have to understand the Past not to support Political Propaganda of any kind
Bibliography
P.J. Geary, The Myth of Nations. The medieval Origins of Europe, Princeton-Oxford 2002
D. Abulafia, Pisan commercial colonies and consulates in twelfth century Siciliy, in «The English Historical Review», XCIII (1978), 68-81.
E. Salvatori, Corsairs’ Crews and Cross-Cultural Interactions: the Case of the Pisan Trapelicinus in the Twelfth Century, in «Medieval Encounters», 13/1 (2007), 32-55.
D. Jacoby, From Byzantium to Latin Romania: Continuity and Change in B. Arbel, B. Hamilton, D. Jacoby, eds., Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204 (London, 1989), 1-44