Rosa Salzberg
My major research interests are urban history and the history of migration and mobility in Renaissance and early modern Europe. My most recent project (MIGROPOLIS, financed by a Marie Sklowdowska Curie Fellowship at the European University Institute, 2016-19) looks at spaces of first arrival for migrants and travellers in Renaissance Venice, such as inns, lodging houses and ferry stations, and examines how they acted as sites of orientation, social and cultural interaction and surveillance points for the local authorities. The first fruits of this research have been published in Urban History and Revue d'historie moderne e contemporaine as well as various book chapters, detailed below.
I also have an enduring interest in the history of communication, and particularly the production and circulation of ephemeral print. A monograph based on my PhD dissertation, entitled Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice, was published by Manchester University Press in 2014. It investigates the way in which the new technology of print infiltrated the lives of people across the entire spectrum of society in the form of cheap printed pamphlets, broadsheets, and fliers, which were sold for very little, posted up and proclaimed, or given out for free. My research suggests how, within the unique cityscape of Venice, print quickly became woven into the matrix of oral and written communication that underpinned urban life.
A key focus of my earlier research - the role of itinerant pedlars and performers who published, performed and sold cheap works in public spaces, acting as disseminators of news, information and entertainment at the intersections of print and orality - has led to several publications in journals including the Italian Studies, The Italianist, Sixteenth Century Journal, Renaissance Studies and Social and Cultural History.
I also have an enduring interest in the history of communication, and particularly the production and circulation of ephemeral print. A monograph based on my PhD dissertation, entitled Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice, was published by Manchester University Press in 2014. It investigates the way in which the new technology of print infiltrated the lives of people across the entire spectrum of society in the form of cheap printed pamphlets, broadsheets, and fliers, which were sold for very little, posted up and proclaimed, or given out for free. My research suggests how, within the unique cityscape of Venice, print quickly became woven into the matrix of oral and written communication that underpinned urban life.
A key focus of my earlier research - the role of itinerant pedlars and performers who published, performed and sold cheap works in public spaces, acting as disseminators of news, information and entertainment at the intersections of print and orality - has led to several publications in journals including the Italian Studies, The Italianist, Sixteenth Century Journal, Renaissance Studies and Social and Cultural History.
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Workshops and Conferences by Rosa Salzberg
History Research Seminar organised by the University of Warwick and Ca’ Foscari
Date and Time: Monday 18th November, 16.30-18.30
Location: Aula Milone, 3rd floor, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Ca’ Foscari
Speakers: Rosa Salzberg (University of Warwick) and Paul Nelles (Carleton University)
Respondents: Giulia Delogu (Ca’ Foscari), Paola Molino (Università degli studi di Padova), Lucio Biasiori (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
While the pre-modern centuries have long been portrayed as static and self-contained, it is now acknowledged that Europe from the Middle Ages onwards saw increasing flows of people and goods. Movement also connected the continent more closely to other parts of the world. This seminar presents recent work that challenges dominant notions of the ‘fixed,’ immobile nature of pre-modern cultures through study of the inter-connected material, social, and cultural dimensions of mobility. The speakers will present their recent research, on mobility and hospitality in early modern Venice (Salzberg), and on the movement of people, words and objects in the global Jesuit network (Nelles). They will also discuss their forthcoming edited collection which explores how ‘the mobilities paradigm’ is influencing the field of early modern history, through case studies which chart the technologies and practices that both facilitated and impeded movement in diverse spheres of social activity such as language-learning, communication, transport, politics, religion, medicine, and architecture.
The seminar will be held in English.
However, there is still much to know about the practical experience – the physicality and materiality - of mobility in this period; for instance, about the spaces through which mobile people passed (which became important sites of encounter and exchange), the forms of transport they used, the physical, mental and emotional ‘baggage’ that they carried with them. How was access to and experience of mobility shaped by the traveller’s class, gender, religion and age? How did Renaissance authorities, both at city and state level, respond to this mobility, attempting to enable, harness or control it? How, exactly, did mobility facilitate communication and cultural exchange, across and beyond the continent? And how does studying people’s movements shed new light on the great changes of the period, from the transmission of Renaissance culture to Europe’s contact with the rest of the world?