Movimiento y movilidad en el Mediterráneo medieval. Personas, términos y conceptos (MovMed)
[EN] As historians of the Medieval Mediterranean, there are constant questions without a clear answer to which we have to face. And there are also multiple problems associated to the definition, fluctuation and fixation of terms and concepts as well as to the use of relevant analytical tools that de...
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| Tipo de recurso: | otro |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/234862 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/234862 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mediterranean Middle Ages Crown of Aragon Navigation Crews Slavery Piracy Mediterráneo Edad Media Corona de Aragón Navegación Tripulaciones Esclavitud Piratería |
| Sumario: | [EN] As historians of the Medieval Mediterranean, there are constant questions without a clear answer to which we have to face. And there are also multiple problems associated to the definition, fluctuation and fixation of terms and concepts as well as to the use of relevant analytical tools that determine and condition our research. This research project will reflect specifically on this problematic; and, to the extent possible, it will contribute to answer some of these questions through two main objectives. The first of them is to study in greater detail, through their individual characteristics, the people that composed some of the groups that move or travel (navigate), voluntarily or forced, through the Medieval Mediterranean Sea (enslaved men and women, crews, secondary actors), in order to detect the emergence of patterns that, until today, have gone unnoticed and, therefore, have not been properly analysed. The second major objective is to systematically analyse, first, and then critically reflect on a set of labels and descriptors that the documentation applies to people and groups that move or displace (navigate) throughout the Medieval Mediterranean Sea. Usually, researchers on medieval Mediterranean history use this labels and descriptors based, above all, on their deductive (and, therefore, subjective) impressions, as we also do. Now, we will analyse some of the most relevant (and, at the same time, some of the most fluctuating and ambiguous) labels that are related to our research on mobility in the medieval Mediterranean (e.g. slave vs. captive, pirate vs. corsair) to verify whether our hypotheses of conceptual work are confirmed or not through a more detailed study of the terminology used by the sources, or if we must reconsider them. We will also create an illustrated vocabulary of nautical terms that commonly appear in the documentation. The global aim of this project is, then, to improve our knowledge in order to contribute to generate in a well-founded way the necessary academic consensus in these topics. We will do so through a detailed analysis not of a Mediterranean of people and groups, but of a Mediterranean of human beings. |
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