Medieval Textual Networks:
Real and Virtual Communities in the Medieval Mediterranean
dr. S. Corbellini
During the late Middle Ages, textual networks (i.e. networks created through the sharing of written textual materials) lay at the base of commercial, political, religious and literary relations. Sharing and exchanging texts actors in these networks were crossing geographical and linguistic boundaries and were involved in a continuous exchange of information, ideas and beliefs spanning the spanning the Mediterranean and the European area. In these sessions we will consider three textual networks: commercial and mercantile networks and the formation and the development of a “documentary mentality”; inter-religious networks, involving Christian, Muslims and Jews communities; and literary networks and the formation of a late medieval and early modern Republic of Letters.
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