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Through the Water and the Storm
The maritime legal framework of General Average (GA) remains an enigmatic and overlooked process within the history of seaborne trade. An ancient rule that redates Roman Law, it continues to be operational today, in a largely unchanged state, mandating the redistribution of unexpected costs that arise during a maritime expedition amongst shipowners and merchants. In this detailed examination of Average procedures within the Italian maritime republic of Genoa, between the years 1590 and 1700, Through the Water and the Storm demonstrates how this rich data can be used to investigate the dynamics of Mediterranean seaborne trade.
Genoa and the Sea
Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a stable and prosperous one, making it one of the most important financial centers in Europe. When Spanish influence in the Mediterranean world began to decline, Genoa, its prosperity closely linked with Spain's, again had to reinvent itself and its economic stature. In Genoa and the Sea, historian Thomas Allison Kirk reconstructs the early modern Mediterranean world and closely studies Genoa's attempt to evolve in the ever-changing political and economic landscape. He focuses on efforts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to revive shipbuilding and maritime commerce as a counterbalance to the city's volatile financial sector. A key component to the plan was a free port policy that attracted merchants and stimulated trade. Through extensive research and close reading of primary documents, Kirk discusses the underpinnings of this complex early modern republic. Genoa's transformations offer insight into the significant and sweeping changes that were taking place all over Europe.
Nostalgia d'Oriente
Il legame tra Genova e il Levante è un tema di grande fascino e di notevole complessità. Quando, nel 1475, a seguito della conquista ottomana di Caffa, i Genovesi persero l’ultima colonia sul Mar Nero, si chiuse una stagione che li aveva visti protagonisti nel Mediterraneo orientale. Da quel momento in poi, e soprattutto nel corso del Seicento, il tentativo di tornare a Oriente divenne un elemento cardine della politica e della cultura genovese. Per questo ceto di governo, il Levante non fu solo un nostalgico richiamo ai perduti possedimenti d’Oltremare – una dimensione mitica, in cui ritrovare l’essenza della propria identità e della propria grandezza – fu soprattutto sinonimo ...
Une mer jalousée - Contribution à l'histoire de la souveraineté (Méditerranée, XVIIe siècle)
Comment disait-on le droit sur les mers à l'époque moderne ? Par quels dispositifs les pouvoirs politiques dotés d'une façade maritime tentaient-ils de faire respecter un pouvoir de " juridiction ", entendu comme un " droit de dire le droit ", sur un espace liquide particulier ? Ces questions sur la liberté, la communauté et l'empire des mers ont donné lieu à une grande controverse juridique livrée à l'échelle du globe. Une mer jalousée propose d'en faire l'histoire à partir de l'observatoire méditerranéen. De la mer Adriatique aux mers du Levant, du golfe du Lion aux littoraux nord-africains, l'enquête décline à différentes échelles, depuis les bureaux des juristes jusqu...
