Migration and Community in the Early Modern Mediterranean

This book analyses the processes of formation, consolidation and dissolution of the migrant community in Ancona, a sixteenth-century Italian port city, connecting it to the wider development that took place in Europe and the Mediterranean. The book initially looks at why migrants decided to leave their homelands in parts of the Aegean region ruled by the Ottoman, Venetian, and Genoese; it then goes on to describe the mechanisms of settlement, professional insertion, and integration that migrants undertook in the social fabric of their new host city. The book examines how migrants organised themselves into a devotional confraternity and the role this institution played in the growth of the community. Finally, it looks at how the community dissolved during the late sixteenth century, faced with increasing pressure from the reformed Catholic clergy after the Council of Trent. Offering fresh insights into the history of Greek diaspora, this book explores the dynamics of migration and community in the early modern Mediterranean through the lens of social connections.

Offers new perspectives on the history of migration within smaller merchant communities in the early modern Mediterranean, furthering the existing research on major cities Focuses on the social connections between settlers, rather than ethnic or religious identity Takes the example of Greek migration in the Italian port city of Ancona, while exploring the wider context of the considerable socio-economic changes taking place in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean

Auteur
Niccolò Fattori received his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, in 2017. He specializes in the study of migration and its social and religious ramifications in the Mediterranean between the fifteenth and the sixteenth century.

Contenu
1 Introduction.- 2 Ancona, The Adriatic, and The Mediterranean.- 3 Departures - Causes and Extent of the Greek Migrations.- 4 Arrivals - Settlement Pattern and Professional Insertion.- 5 Social Networks, their Role and their Evolution.- 6 Integration - Marriages, Family, and Legacy.- 7 The Confraternity of Sant'Anna.- 8 Structural Weakness and Religious Pressure.- 8 Conclusions.