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GIOVANNI TARANTINO e PAOLA VON WYSS-GIACOSA (edited by)
Twelve Cities - One Sea
Early Modern Mediterranean Port Cities and their Inhabitants
The COST Action ‘People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492–1923)’, or ‘PIMo’ for short, unites its researchers in the conception of the Mediterranean as a flexible locus for a multitude of cultural transactions. Their primary goal is to restate the region’s significance as a historic site of engagement and exchange. In this volume twelve Mediterranean port cities are considered as places of distance and proximity, conflict and cooperation, autonomy and control.
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Giovanni Tarantino , PIMo Action Chair and senior research lecturer in history at Florence University, is editor of the journals Cromohs and Emotions: History, Culture, Society, and of the series ‘Histories in Motion’ (Brepols) and ‘Translating Cultures in the Early Modern World’ (Brill). He has edited, with Charles Zika, Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile, and Emotions in Early Modern Europe (2019).
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa is lecturer, researcher and guest curator at Zurich University, editor of the Brepols series ‘Histories in Motion’, and member of the international research group ‘Media and Religion’. Her publications include Schiffe und Übergänge. Alfred Steinmanns Forschung zum Schiffsmotiv in Indonesien (2021, with Andreas Isler) and Visual Reflections across the Mediterranean Sea (2023, with Natalie Fritz).
