Navigating family welfare and dwelling space for mercantile migrants in Venice, 1550–1700

Prideaux, T. (2022) Navigating family welfare and dwelling space for mercantile migrants in Venice, 1550–1700. Cultural and Social History, 19(4), pp. 371-387. (doi: 10.1080/14780038.2022.2089077)

Abstract

Mercantile migrants in Venice drew upon family ties and ruler’s obligations to negotiate their rights and privileges. Drawing from a source base of immigrants’ petitions to the Venetian Collegio and the Cinque Savi alla Mercanzia, this paper reveals that foreign merchants also exploited the ties of trust and reciprocity that traditionally bound ruler and subject in medieval and early modern supplication. However, immigrants confronted limits to reciprocity when it came to the authorities’ moral or civic concerns in the regulation of space.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Prideaux, Dr Tamsin
• Authors: Prideaux, T.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History
• Journal Name: Cultural and Social History
• ISSN: 1478-0038
• ISSN (Online): 1478-0046
• Published Online: 21 June 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Author(s)
• First Published: First published in Cultural and Social History 19(4):371-387
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons license