A connected history of the Middle Ages: communication and circulation from the Mediterranean Sea

• Grant number: 21/02912-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2023
• End date: May 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Cândido da Silva
• Grantee: Marcelo Cândido da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Ana Paula Torres Megiani ; Neri de Barros Almeida
• Associated researchers: Adriana Vidotte ; Adrien Bayard ; Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem ; Alexis Wilkin ; Aline Benvegnú dos Santos ; André Luis Pereira Miatello ; Angélica Barbosa Neres Santana ; Antonio Mauro Saraiva ; Bruno Tadeu Salles ; Carlos Augusto Ribeiro Machado ; Carolina Gual da Silva ; Cláudia Regina Bovo ; Daniele Solvi ; Edmar Checon de Freitas ; Fabiano Fernandes ; Flávia Aparecida Amaral ; Flavia Galli Tatsch ; Igor Salomão Teixeira ; Isabelle Cartron ; Jean-Louis Gaulin ; José Rivair Macedo ; JOYE Sylvie Marie Danielle ; Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira ; Leandro Duarte Rust ; Lukas Gabriel Grzybowski ; Marcella Fabiola Gouveia Moreira de Miranda ; Maria Cristina Correia Leandro Pereira ; Maria Cristina La Rocca ; Maria Filomena Pinto Da Costa Coelho ; Mateus Espadoto ; Pere Benito Monclús ; Pierre Savy ; Rafael Scopacasa ; Renan Marques Birro ; Renato Rodrigues da Silva ; Renato Viana Boy ; Robson Murilo Grando Della Torre ; Thiago Juarez Ribeiro da Silva ; Victor Borges Sobreira ; Vinicius Marino Carvalho
• Associated research grant(s): 24/02947-0 - Psychosocial and historical approaches to societies in crisis situations, AV.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/21382-3 - Eucharist and social construction: changes in the relations between the Latin and Greek communities following the berengarian and azymite controversies (11th century), BP.DR; 23/17486-5 - The disputes over church patrimony in barbarian Gaul and Hispania (6th-8th centuries), BP.DR; 24/19206-2 - Norman Sicily in Muslim sources: space and circulation in the Mediterranean of the 11th and 12th centuries, BP.IC; + associated scholarships 24/18030-8 - FOOD INSECURITY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS IN NORTHERN GAUL (7TH-11TH CENTURIES), BP.MS; 24/05064-1 - Rumor and power in Late Antiquity: Informal communication and the uses of rumors in religious controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries, BE.PQ; 24/13489-2 - The Cleansing of the Temple: the Uses of a Biblical Episode in Mendicant Sermons, from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe (13th-15th Centuries), BP.PD; 24/13245-6 - The ornamentation of the Canon Tables of the Saint-Bénigne of Dijon Bible (BM Dijon 2), BP.MS; 24/04318-0 - Documental collection of Portuguese sumptuary laws (15th-16th Century), BP.PD; 24/17454-9 - The circulation of Etymologies of Isidoro de Sevilha., BP.IC; 24/17242-1 - The material support of the manuscript copies of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, BP.IC; 24/02659-4 - Food management in central and northern Italy (6th-10th centuries), BP.DR; 24/01026-8 - Myrcna Hlaefdige and Regina Saxonum: Gender, power and connected communities in the representations of Aethelflaed in insular manuscripts of the 9th-11th centuries, BP.IC; 24/05718-1 - Circulation of information, ideas, news and their media - The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville and the English bestiaries: transformation and continuity, BP.PD; 24/05709-2 - Development of systems and environments and support for analysing historical documentation, BP.TT; 24/06824-0 - The Circulation of Objects in the Medieval Mediterranean: Development of playful simulations for the study of the Great Plague in Western Europe (14th century), BP.PD; 23/12048-0 - Shared Tastes: The Griffin of Pisa and the circulation of Islamic motifs in the Medieval Mediterranean., BP.MS; 23/17933-1 - Clemency of Hungary, Queen of France: the Circulation of Artistic Objects Promoted by the Female Figure in the 13th Century, BP.IC; 23/12655-3 - Beato Amadeu da Silva, circulation of the manuscripts of the work Apocalypsis Nova in the southern axis of Europe, BP.IC; 23/12603-3 - Eleanor of Castile and the Circulation of Illuminated Manuscripts between England and Castile: A Comparative Analysis between the Chronica Majora and the Estoria de Espanna, BP.IC; 23/12402-8 - Epidemics and mortality crises in the Al-Tabari Chronicle, BP.IC; 23/12585-5 - From Portugal to the Empire of the Sublime Porte: The Duke of Naxos and the Sephardic networks in the Mediterranean Sea (15th-16th centuries), BP.IC; 23/11627-6 - Mortality Crises in Giovanni Villani's Nuova Cronica, BP.IC; 23/12610-0 - Silk and velvet embroidered with gold thread to rule: Richard II and Charles the Bold., BP.IC; 23/13448-1 - Climate and crisis in Afro-Muslim chronicles (11th-16th centuries), BP.IC; 23/13451-2 - Climate and crisis in Byzantine chronicles (6th-11th centuries), BP.IC - associated scholarships

Abstract

This project intends to analyze the articulation between spaces and communities in the medieval Mediterranean, through phenomena of communication and circulation that had this sea as their axis. The spatial framework of the project is the Mediterranean and its connected spaces, from Saharan Africa to Northern Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Byzantine-Arab East. The chronological frame is between the end of the Roman hegemony in the Mediterranean, in the 5th century, and the First Globalization, in the 17th century, when the Christian monarchies of Western Europe projected their power beyond the Mediterranean space. The Connected History methodology that will be used helps to solve a serious problem created by the national archives, which is the compartmentalization of documents that were not produced according to a national logic. This methodology makes it possible to reestablish the connections that the documentary networks originally had and that were broken by the interference of the logic of the organization of the national archives, which collected local documents and were then studied as representative of a national circumscription, of a national jurisdiction, or of a national cultural logic. The project team, composed of principal researchers and undergraduate and graduate students from USP, UNICAMP, and UNIFESP, in addition to associated researchers from Brazilian and foreign universities, is organized in three thematic strands, "Space and Communities", "Communication and Circulation", and an operational strand "Connected History and Digital Humanities". The articulation of the team takes place on three levels, that of the relationship of the individual researches with the methodology of Connected History, that of the relationships between the thematic strands, and that of the relationships between Connected History and Digital Humanities. (AU)