Controlling and Documenting Migration via Urban ‘Spaces of Arrival’ in Early Modern Venice

Salzberg, Rosa

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“…Lazzaretti are here compared to other spaces of the infrastructure of travel which have recently been subject of works by historians of early modern mobility. 65 Even if seldomly analysed this way by scholars, lazzaretti were among the measures and numerous checkpoints that early modern travellers and their cargo would have encountered while travelling towards their destination, such as caravanserai, inns, and city gates. 66 Quarantine centres demarcated the passage between the outside and the inside of borders and cities, and the communication between the Ottoman Levant and the Central and Western Mediterranean.…”

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Quarantine, Diseased Geographies, and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean

Inì

2023

Hist. J.

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The article examines the relationship between quarantine practices and Western European medical notions of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth-century Mediterranean, as well as the crucial role of quarantine centres in facilitating trade and mobility between the East and the West. I argue that quarantine should be analysed to understand the complexity of the early modern Mediterranean as a shared context that saw both connections and clashes. The first part of the article focuses on Western European ideas concerning the geography of the Mediterranean, medical theories, and related quarantine practices. These theories often presented the ‘healthy’ ‘Christian West’ as opposed to the ‘infidel’ and ‘plagued’ Ottoman Empire. However, the article argues for a more nuanced understanding of the early modern Mediterranean, where both unity and diversity co-existed. Quarantine, despite its association with isolation and the reinforcement of borders, also enabled connections and circulation despite the fear of plague. This article explores quarantine centres as key components of the infrastructure of mobility, with a particular focus on religious diversity, tolerance, and multilingualism. The article also explores the perception of the institution through the eyes of Ottoman passengers, shedding light on their perspectives and attitudes toward quarantine.

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Quarantine, Diseased Geographies, and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean

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2023

Hist. J.

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“…55 In Vienna, as in Venice or Paris, lodging houses were effectively beyond the control of the administration, and constitute a grey area of social history. 56 Deutschordenshauswhere Mozart stayed when he was working on his piano sonata no. 11 'alla turca'and the Heiligenkreuzerhof were archetypal examples.…”

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A case of urban integration: Vienna's port area and the Ottoman merchants in the eighteenth century

Paço

2020

Urban History

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Studying the Ottoman subjects in eighteenth-century Vienna helps to understand better the process of integration of the different districts of the city in a fast-changing context, especially around its Danube port area. Despite the withdrawal of the Ottoman empire from central Europe after 1683, Ottomans were fully a part of the history of Vienna and their presence has to be explored within the specific urban dynamics of a city: the reconfiguration of its economic sectors and social places, the tensions at play between the socio-economic groups by which a city was made and the evolution of its urban planning. Focusing on the Ottoman merchants operating in Vienna allows us to identify and to analyse the workings of the port area of the fourth largest city in Europe and to explore the social spaces of Viennese markets, streets, courtyards and coffeehouses.

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Tracing Migrations Within Urban Spaces: Women’s Mobility and Identification Practices in Venice (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)

Bernardi

2022

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

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Controlling and Documenting Migration via Urban ‘Spaces of Arrival’ in Early Modern Venice

Cited by 5 publications

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Quarantine, Diseased Geographies, and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean

Quarantine, Diseased Geographies, and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean

A case of urban integration: Vienna's port area and the Ottoman merchants in the eighteenth century

Tracing Migrations Within Urban Spaces: Women’s Mobility and Identification Practices in Venice (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)

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