“Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean”, eds. A.L. Hancock, I. Forrest
This volume uncovers the ways in which trust and mistrust affected people’s lives in premodern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Trust is a fundamental part of human relationships. It forms the basis of our connections with people and institutions in a variety of ways. But without reference to the great variety of meanings and experiences of trust in history, particularly the premodern past, we fail to grasp both the subtleties and the true significance of the topic. Through exploration of the nuances of the construction, maintenance, and breakdown of trust and trusting relationships, this volume demonstrates that trust functions in different ways in different contexts. It illuminates how the study of trust today points to new interpretations of life in the past, and how study of the past can offer valuable perspectives on life in the present.
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Introduction. “Trust and Mistrust Across Time: Exploring Historical Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches” by Annabel Laura Hancock
Chapter 1. “Trust in Conversation: An Interview with Teresa Morgan and Justyna Wubs Mrozewicz” by Annabel Laura Hancock
Chapter 2. “Phantom Notarial Contracts and Social Resilience after the Sack of Marseille, 1423” by Ryan K. Low
Chapter 3. “Trust Across Seas: Genoese Official Representatives in Tunis, 1288–1289” by Susannah Bain
Chapter 4. “Quoniam almanus non esset: (Mis)trust at the Fifteenth-Century University of Paris” by Teresa Barucci
Chapter 5. “Little Shops of Horror? Fear and Distrust in Late Medieval Surgical Encounters” by Fiona Knight
Chapter 6. “Trust and Time in Sixteenth-Century Italian Mediterranean Commerce” by Nicholas Scott Baker
Chapter 7. “A Taxonomy of Trust: Contracting and Conspiring in the Premodern World” by Sheilagh Ogilvie
Chapter 8. “Trust, Mistrust, and the Premodern: A Reflection on the Contribution of History to a Multidisciplinary Field” by Ian Forrest and Annabel Laura Hancock
Index
ISSN: 9781802702842
Objavljeno: 2025
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