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Introduction to Volume 1: Theories, methods and ideas
No full textThe humanities can play an important role in understanding mobility from the diachronic and spatial perspectives. Hence, mobilities—in plural—must be reimagined through a humanistic lens to find new analytical momentum in the cross-fertilisation of studies on past and present phenomena, practices and meanings. This mobility and humanities approach is explored in this two-volume book based on a range of historical and present questions to develop new insights that are meant to shape this nascent humanistic take on mobilities. Volume 1 of this book, with Theories and Methods as well as Ideas sections, suggests that mobility should be considered a very elastic and inclusive concept that results from the proximity of different disciplines, and thus the concept of mobilities must be positioned as a powerful catalyst of creative research insights and claims. This book was developed in cooperation with the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities—MoHu at the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World of the University of Padova
Federico Mazzini, Esplorare gli spazi immateriali in prospettiva storica. Hackers, phreaks, hams 2000-1900
No full textFederico Mazzini, “Cose de laltro mondo”: una cultura di guerra attraverso la scrittura popolare trentina, 1914-1918
Full text linkIl libro di Federico Mazzini, assegnista di storia contemporanea presso l’Università di Padova, pone al centro della riflessione il tema della “cultura di guerra” nell’ambito dell’esperienza bellica dei contadini trentini arruolati tra le fila dell’esercito austro-ungarico durante il primo conflitto mondiale. L’autore intende mettere alla prova il paradigma storiografico elaborato dagli studiosi francesi Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau e Annette Becker, secondo i quali il protrarsi delle ostilità per..
Mechanics and the Mobility Turn in Mechanics, Scholars and Objects: The Spread of Aristotle’s Philosophy and Its Exponents in Early Modern Europe
No full textThis essay discusses the issues surrounding scholar mobility and the use of vernacular Italian in “Le Mecchaniche”, Filippo Pigafetta’s translation of “Mechanicorum Liber” by Guidobaldo del Monte. The first part of this essay describes the circles within which Mechanics were discussed. The members of these circles were Greek-language enthusiasts, including students, teachers, technicians and military engineers, who frequented the University of Padua’s circles and the city’s private libraries in the second half of the 16th century. They were Catholic and anti-Ottoman, held philosophical, practical-empirical and rationalist beliefs, and were open to the international mobility of French, Dutch and Iberian scholars. Their hallmark, however, was their determination to disseminate ancient and contemporary scientific studies, especially those concerning everyday issues, which today would be covered by Mechanical Engineering and its related subjects, e.g. Mathematics, Physics and Ballistics. The second part focuses on several key features of the “Mobility Turn”, taking a brief look at the free movement of scholars and ideas. It also covers how the concept of motion within “Mechanicorum Liber” and its drawings intertwines with Pigafetta’s life, multilingualism, travels to the farthest reaches of Renaissance Europe, and the reasons for these travels. The third part of this essay specifically examines the Mobility Turn and illustrates the initial results of a heuristic intuition that will require further investigation
Recensione: Federico MAZZINI, “Cose de laltro mondo”: una cultura di guerra attraverso la scrittura popolare trentina, 1914-1918, Pisa, ETS, 2013, 309 pp.
No full textIl libro di Federico Mazzini pone al centro della riflessione il tema della “cultura di guerra” nell’ambito dell’esperienza bellica dei contadini trentini arruolati tra le fila dell’esercito austro-ungarico durante il primo conflitto mondiale. L’autore intende mettere alla prova il paradigma storiografico elaborato dagli studiosi francesi Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau e Annette Becker, secondo i quali il protrarsi delle ostilità per oltre quattro anni fu reso possibile non solo dall’efficacia dei metodi coercitivi impiegati dalle autorità per reprimere le manifestazioni di dissenso suscitate dall’irreggimentazione delle masse e dalle stragi al fronte, bensì dall’atteggiamento di condiscendenza, se non di vera e propria condivisione, che la maggioranza delle popolazioni europee mostrò per gli obiettivi del conflitto
Mechanics, Scholars and Objects: The Spread of Aristotle’s Philosophy and Its Exponents in Early Modern Europe
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Political objects in motion across 19th-century Europe
No full textStudies on the forms of political mobilisation in the early 19th century have revealed the proliferation of objects and visual and material markers of various kinds, which between the Napoleonic age and the 1848 revolutionary turning point tended to characterise European political activism and to mark political and/or patriotic affiliations. In particular, this chapter focuses on objects linked to central figures in political-military events of the early 19th century, starting with Napoleon Bonaparte. These figures were at the centre of a process of spectacularisation of politics and construction of celebrity status, which was evident throughout Europe in the reproduction of their images in everyday objects. The chapter also reflects on the relationship between the political life of objects and their mobility from a theoretical and methodological perspective. It highlights how the material dimension of politics contributed to the construction of languages and practices which travelled beyond national borders and connected different contexts
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