OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2019)A particular kind of institutions contributed importantly to the organisation of overseas trade: funduqs and fondacos which originated around the medieval Mediterranean. This article aims to contribute to the debate on ...
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(2019)The Ragusan maritime network gradually developed from the ancient Venetian one, at the time of Venetian preponderance (1205-1358). But, at the end of the Venetian domination, the Ragusan network developed some characteristics ...
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(2019)This paper, basing its analysis on England’s national customs accounts between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, briefly examines England’s ports as commercial nodes (of which London was the busiest, with Hull, ...
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(2019)In Europe, in the Middle Ages, ostrich feathers were used for the decoration of military headgear, as a representation of the high lineage of the possessor and his military virtues. They were imported from the coasts of ...
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(2019)The two major ports on the French Atlantic coast have many points in common, including the facilities of relations with their hinterland. But, in the sixteenth century, they had a very different destiny. Bordeaux was a ...
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(2019)This paper examines the first 50 transitional years of a sea of isolation to a sea of internationalization. It provides analytical tools to reveal the mechanisms of how this was done. To do so it places in the centre of ...
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Chapter Between the Mediterranean and the North Sea: Networks of Men and Ports (14th-15th Centuries)(2019)This essay examines how the various processes of economic integration brought about by commercial exchanges were influenced by networks of merchants, by the different functions and capacities of ports, and by the various ...
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(2019)Approaching the subject from a diachronic perspective, the essay sets out to outline a chronology of the Mediterranean prominence in the sugar trade considering port activity and commercial elites. Studies carried out so ...
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(2019)With the development of research in economic history, historians are now testing the hypothesis that maritime networks and port cities contributed to the phenomenon of European integration. This essay applies a holistic ...
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(2019)In 2017, the teachers of the Fortuzzi primary school in Bologna, as part of the school’s centenary initiatives, conducted a public and participatory research on its history that involved pupils, parents and the neighbourhood. ...
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(2019)Starting from a reflection on the pedagogical analysis of professionalization processes from a diachronic perspective, the essay discusses a research perspective attentive to the "lesson of things" underlying the identification ...
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(2019)This contribution describes some steps of a research, by its nature constantly in progress, which has seen us engaged on several occasions in recent years, namely the collection and sharing of the stories and memories of ...
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(2019)Teaching the history of education to future educators? One possible way to avoid the sclerotization of the discipline into an excessive focus on handbooks is to conceive it as a public history practice, interrogating ...
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(2019)We live in a historical period in which it is necessary and urgent to know and relate to stories. Today, the social function of memory is stronger and more evident than ever. The concept of memory, as well as that of ...
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(2019)Public History is a great resource that belongs not only to historians, but to all those who, specialists or non-specialists, starting from their specific cultural skills, intend to adopt its dialogical style, social ...
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(2019)This contribution focuses on the memory of older women, in the role of pupils and teachers. The starting point is the awareness of the role that the elderly person plays for younger generations, as an agent of transformation ...
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(2019)The essay deals with the exhibition “Schools as huts and books as works of art. From Brazil to the Agro Romano” (Scuole come capanne e libri come opere d’arte. Dal Brasile all’Agro Romano), which collected educational ...
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(2019)Public historians have definitively recognized the crucial role that museums – on par with libraries, archives, schools as well as media, cultural and tourism industry, and «all other sectors where the knowledge of the ...
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(2019)Referring to the pedagogical utopia of the great intrinsic change to a history designed for a large audience, i.e. Public History, this contribution addresses the possibility of rethinking the museum of education as a space ...
