Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World : : The Practice and Experience of Movement / / ed. by Rosa Salzberg, Paul Nelles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Aslanian, Sebouh David,; Bilić, Darka,; Fosi, Irene,; Gallagher, John,; Molino, Paola,; Nelles, Paul,; Salzberg, Rosa,; Schmitz, Carolin,; Tramontana, Felicita,; Verhoeven, Gerrit,
• HerausgeberIn: Nelles, Paul,; Salzberg, Rosa,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Connected Histories in the Early Modern World ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged that Europe from the Middle Ages onwards saw increasing flows of people and goods. Movement also con...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Movement and Mobility in the Early Modern World : An Introduction
• Moving Bodies
• 1. Linguistic Encounter : Fynes Moryson and the Uses of Language
• 2. Wading Through the Mire : Mobility on the Grand Tour (1585–1750)
• 3. Travelling for Health : Medicine and Rural Mobility in Early Modern Spain
• Crossing Borders
• 4. Mobility and Danger on the Borders of the Papal States (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
• 5. News on the Road : The Mobility of Handwritten Newsletters in Early Modern Europe
• 6. Quarantine, Mobility, and Trade : Commercial Lazzarettos in the Early Modern Adriatic
• Global Networks
• 7. Devotion in Transit : Agnus Dei, Jesuit Missionaries, and Global Salvation in the Sixteenth Century
• 8. Getting to the Holy Land : Franciscan Journeys and Mediterranean Mobility
• 9. From Mount Lebanon to the Little Mount in Madras : Mobility and Catholic-Armenian Alms-Collecting Networks During the Eighteenth Century
• Index