Project

In the Beginning was Braudel. But who was Braudel? A good answer to this question could be maybe another question: qu’est-ce que la Méditerranée? “What is the Mediterranean?” This is the very core of Fernand Braudel legacy. The French historian (1902-1985), father of a new way of making history, was also the ‘inventor’ of the Mediterranean as a subject of historical inquire. So: what is the Mediterranean? Is it one thing, a unit of geography and history? Is it mille choses à la fois, a constellation of many fragmented spaces and histories? Braudel in his monumental La Méditerranéeet le monde méditerranéen à l’époque de Philippe II (1949)creates not only the subject but also its most problematic thematic issue: the one… Continue reading Project

Partners and Network

Partners and Network MedRoute is possible thanks to the collaboration with the Istituto di Storia per l’Europa Mediterraneadel Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISEM-CNR), Cagliari, Italy, and the Department of History at University of Maryland at College Park, Mayland, USA. The CNR is the largest public research institution in Italy, the only one under the Ministry of Research and Education performing multidisciplinary activities. It is organized in 7 Departments, 108 Institutes and more than 500 Research Units. In this frame, the ISEMrepresents the leading Italian Institute aiming, through interdisciplinary approach, at studying political, institutional, social, and economic Mediterranean history. The MedRoute supervisor is Marcello Verga, Professor of History at the Università degli Studi di Firenze and Director of the ISEM-CNR, whereas the responsible for the return… Continue reading Partners and Network

About

My name is Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri. I was born in Frosinone, in the very heart of the Ciociaria region (Lazio), in central Italy. Since I was a child, my love for the past has been nourished by the extraordinary history of my birthplace – with its castles, abbeys and fortified borghi – as well as by my parents capacity of making me and my sisters to cultivate reading. My first original research – pursued in Birmingham in 2003 – was in the Elizabethan cheap print, a subject that I developed in my master degree theses, defended in 2005 at the University of Rome – La Sapienza. After the completion of my Ph.D. at the University of Florence, I was active… Continue reading About