Full Description
Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts explores the movement of individuals and peoples and the circulation of material objects and books and texts. Through a series of short chapters, mobility is employed as an elastic, inclusive and multifaceted concept across various disciplines to shed light on a geographically and chronologically broad range of issues and case studies. In doing so, the concept of mobility is positioned as a powerful catalyst for historical change and as a fruitful approach to research in the humanities and social sciences.
Like its sister volume, this volume is edited and written by members of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility and the Humanities (MoHu) at the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and The Ancient World (DiSSGeA) of the University of Padua, Italy. The structure of the book mirrors the Theories and Methods, and Ideas thematic research clusters of the Centre. Afterwords from leading scholars from other institutions synthesise and reflect upon the findings of each section.
This volume, together with Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas, makes a compelling case for the use of mobility studies as a research framework in the humanities and social sciences. As such, it will be of interest to students and researchers in various disciplines.
Contents
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, 14th-15th centuries) 3. Political Objects in Motion across 19th-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
