Descripción del proyecto
Estudio sobre el auge intelectual en el Mediterráneo después de la Edad Media
Entre 1400 y 1700, Venecia envió médicos, cirujanos y boticarios a sus colonias y avanzadas de soldados al sultanato mameluco y al Imperio otomano para salvaguardar sus intereses comerciales y políticos en ultramar. A la vez que mantenían sanos a los diplomáticos y comerciantes, aprovechaban sus puestos médicos para la exploración intelectual a través del contacto con las poblaciones y tradiciones locales. El equipo del proyecto FONDACO, financiado por las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, llevará a cabo el primer examen sistemático de los orígenes de esta red de intercambio de conocimientos que conectaba a los estados cristianos e islámicos de todo el Mediterráneo y Levante. Se estudiará cómo la red contribuyó al avance de los principales campos del saber en la Europa moderna temprana, especialmente la historia natural y el anticuariado.
Objetivo
This two-year Fellowship will produce the first systematic study of an uncharted network of knowledge exchange connecting Christian and Islamicate states across the Mediterranean and Levant 1400-1700. This network had its humble origin in a public health initiative of the Republic of Venice, first uncovered by Pugliano thanks to a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Medical History. Keen on protecting its commercial and political interests overseas, for three centuries Venice appointed physicians, surgeons and apothecaries to its colonies and outposts in the Mamluk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire. Tasked with guarding the health of Venices diplomats and merchants, in fact these medical servants used their positions as springboards for rich intellectual explorations that brought them in contact with local populations and traditions. The proposed project aims to investigate how these diplomatic doctors turned into savants and, more ambitiously, how this network facilitated the development of key fields of scholarship in early modern Europe, notably natural history and antiquarianism, and how these were informed by the intellectual world of the Near East. In so doing, the project will overturn the image of intellectual stagnation traditionally attributed to the post-medieval Mediterranean world, and reshape our understanding of the connected history of the region. The project will significantly contribute to the development of the field of History of Science and Medicine in the host institution and European higher education. It will also considerably advance the career of Valentina Pugliano, an experienced researcher educated internationally in the UK, Germany and the US. The training provided by Ca Foscari and a secondment at Ko University, Istanbul, the international networks of these two institutions, and the projects output, will cement Puglianos reputation as emerging scholar and increase her chances of securing an ERC grant and a position at a European university.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
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Palabras clave
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
30123 Venezia
Italia