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Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
A-1 ETH22a Migrant Communities I Early Modern
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Paul Puschmann
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Eduardo de Mesa Gallego : The Survival of Gaelic Ireland in Exile (1604-1644)
Following the departure of the Ulster earls and O’Doherty’s revolt, James I of England proceeded with the plantation of Ulster in 1609. This proved fatal to the Gaelic septs of Ulster and signified the factual end of their authority in the province. To the date, most studies of the Ulster ... (Show more)
Following the departure of the Ulster earls and O’Doherty’s revolt, James I of England proceeded with the plantation of Ulster in 1609. This proved fatal to the Gaelic septs of Ulster and signified the factual end of their authority in the province. To the date, most studies of the Ulster plantation have concentrated on the planters and the planted territories and have tended to neglect the impact of plantation on the native population. To a large degree, important questions regarding the fate of Gaelic society in the aftermath of plantation remain unanswered.
The present proposal will help fill this significant lacuna by researching that portion of the Gaelic population that chose European exile in the wake of the plantation. Its particular focus will be the system of internal and external political relations that characterised the exiled Gaelic elites and their supporters during the period immediately following their arrival on the continent. This was overwhelmingly a military migration to Spain and its territories. For this reason the present project is based on a detailed study of the factors driving the creation and development of the Irish Tercios (military units) from 1604 to 1644. Of special interest will be the complex of alliances and loyalties that the migrating Ulster septs took with them from Ireland and attempted to articulate in their new military environment in the Spanish Monarchy. The role of the O’Neill clan in these crucial forty years was central.
The paper will draw on previously unknown and unpublished material in Spanish archives and integrate it into the contemporary historiography on the field. This paper promises to recast the historical understanding of the Gaelic septs in Spanish service during the first half of the Seventeenth Century (Show less)

Konstantin Mierau : Armenians, Cypriots and Turks sharing Rooms in Late Sixteenth Century Madrid. The Landlord Jorge Cipriotta and his Criminal Tenants
Madrid, due to its recent foundation in 1561, and its subsequent explosive growth, is an instructive case study for early modern cultural encounters. In this sprawling city, outskirts that were once the domain of the marginals move into the center of the ?town and court?, and thus into the center ... (Show more)
Madrid, due to its recent foundation in 1561, and its subsequent explosive growth, is an instructive case study for early modern cultural encounters. In this sprawling city, outskirts that were once the domain of the marginals move into the center of the ?town and court?, and thus into the center of attention of municipal administrators and criminal investigators.

The following paper will discuss a trial case held in 1614. In that year, the special constable for vagabonds and poor of the court arrests a group of foreigners of various origins in a tavern in a blind alley of the capital. The building that houses the tavern is also the location of an apartment owned by a man of Cypriot origin who rents this apartment out to transient foreigners of various backgrounds. The court case provides testimonials from roughly two dozens of transient foreigners. A considerable number of these tenants is involved in a range of criminal schemes such as forgery and fraud. The apartment owned by the Cypriot is node in that network.

The court case, hitherto unpublished, will allow us to reflect on the backgrounds of the tenants, the relations among them, the frictions between different ethnic groups among the tenants, and their relation with the city administration and the general public. The vagabond in Madrid, it turns out, can be a former spice merchant, a sailor, a slave, a priest, a farmer or a soldier by trade, and Armenian, Greek, Mesopotamian or Turkish in origin. Yet these are not necessarily the identities the vagabonds take on when roaming the city streets or identifying themselves to the authorities. The source thus provides a case study for both practices of identification, as well as the intercultural network structures of transient foreigners in Madrid. It allows us to connect a social phenomenon in the capital of the Hapsburg empire - an apartment filled with vagabonds, according to the initial perception of the constable - with more general Mediterranean patterns of migration.

This microhistorical case study will allow us to complement and enter in a dialogue with studies of the presence of foreigners in early modern Madrid at the aggregate level, as it allows us to delve into the individual histories and practices of identification behind the statistics. (Show less)

Mateusz Wyzga : Rural-urban Migration in Early Modern Poland. Case Study of Krakow
Krakow was one of the largest urban areas in the Polish lands. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century urban population was about 30 000 inhabitants. Well-developed trade and crafts generated demand for various transport services. Means of transport included first of all Vistula River that flew through Cracow. Goods were ... (Show more)
Krakow was one of the largest urban areas in the Polish lands. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century urban population was about 30 000 inhabitants. Well-developed trade and crafts generated demand for various transport services. Means of transport included first of all Vistula River that flew through Cracow. Goods were floated down the river mainly to the port of Gdansk by the Baltic Sea. The entire region was covered with a network of international trade routes. They crossed in Krakow. Transit of goods between Hungary and southern Italia and Baltic ports in the north, as well as between the Orient and the Ruthenia lands to the east and Silesia and Western Europe, was held through this way. Many rural roads overlaid this transit network, through which peasants delivered crops to agglomeration. The peasants also offered transport services, creating even informal businesses. Inhabitants of rich royal villages and from another villages located by the road took remarkable part in these activities.
The metropolitan area of Krakow also experienced significant migration movements, which can be recognized by the well-preserved urban sources, especially thanks to the books of admissions to municipal law and church registers. Rapidly growing regional market in the sixteenth century was interrupted by declining economic circumstances and demographic crisis of the mid-seventeenth century. Due to the transfer of the royal court to Warsaw, the city of Cracow lost a major recipient of goods, mainly luxury ones. However, the city still remained the center of Malopolska region.
Krakow urban agglomeration was very diverse. It is difficult to precisely determine its boundaries as they smoothly changed into a typically rural area. Economic criterion can be indicated here – so called direct impact of the city. This gives the area within a radius of 30 km. The agglomeration consisted of the city of Krakow belted with medieval walls, as well as of the two neighbourhood satellite cities: Kazimierz and Kleparz. Further away of suburbs of diverse ownership structure, focused on crafts, industry and the garden and fruit production. Inhabitants of the suburbs produced food for the needs of the city. They also sought employment in Krakow themselves.
Agglomeration of Krakow and its rural surroundings were strong connected. Villages were supplier of food and raw materials to the city (lime kilns, quarries), as well as complemented significantly population of Krakow resources. This refers to high extent to disciples in the guilds, as well as domestic servants, hired workers and beggars.
The mobility of peasants was strongly related to the life-cycle. Many young people migrated to urban areas and got married. Several thousand peasants marriages contracted in the parishes in the city of Krakow and within the agglomeration during 1581-1800 were analyzed. Parallel analysis of urban archive (e.g. of books of craft guilds, criminal records, books of admissions to municipal law) revealed various connections between the population of the city and the countryside. These connections were mainly based on kinship and economic bonds. With reference to research of the early modern cities of Western Europe, the important role of rural societies in reconstruction of cities population was proven. Therefore migration of people from the countryside to the cities could be treated as one of the most dominant social phenomenon in early modern period. (Show less)



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