Migration and Community in the Early Modern Mediterranean The Greeks of Ancona, 1510-1595 /

• Main Author: Fattori, Niccolò (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Italy-History.; Emigration and immigration.; Social history.; Cities and towns-History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Italy.; Migration.; Social History.; Urban History.

This book analyses the processes of formation, consolidation and dissolution of the migrant community in Ancona, a sixteenth-century Italian port city, connecting it to the wider development that took place in Europe and the Mediterranean. The book initially looks at why migrants decided to leave th...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Ancona, The Adriatic, and The Mediterranean
• 3 Departures - Causes and Extent of the Greek Migrations
• 4 Arrivals - Settlement Pattern and Professional Insertion
• 5 Social Networks, their Role and their Evolution
• 6 Integration - Marriages, Family, and Legacy
• 7 The Confraternity of Sant'Anna
• 8 Structural Weakness and Religious Pressure
• 8 Conclusions.