Intercultural Contacts, Multiple Identities and Shifting Allegiances: the Caravane Maritime and its Protagonists in the Early Modern Mediterranean

摘要：不同文化间的接触、多重身份和不断变化的效忠：早期现代地中海的商船及其主角。当代的地缘政治、宗教和文化问题，如基督教和伊斯兰教的共存以及《巴塞罗那条约》(1995年)后地中海南海岸融入西欧经济，使许多经典的地中海问题重新焕发生机，这些问题一直是该地区历史研究的基础。现代早期，横跨东地中海和北非的海上贸易活动的商业网络创造了一个由不同信仰、国籍和社会阶层的人组成的网络，几个世纪以来，这种网络允许并促进了不断的思想交流，海关和信息，跨越宗教派别和边界。通过更好地了解大篷车海上贸易网络，我们将更好地了解我们目前地中海内部关系的历史根源。为此，我们需要召集研究海上交通各个不同方面的所有相关学者，包括经济和社会历史学家、文学学者、地中海研究专家和奥斯曼帝国的专家，因为大篷车海上幸存的文件证据散布在地中海各地的数十个档案中(往往没有编目，很难追踪)，并以几种不同的语言书写。该项目将在一个国际研讨会上汇集来自联合王国、意大利、土耳其、摩洛哥、突尼斯、阿尔及利亚、西班牙、法国、希腊、美国、马耳他和澳大利亚的主要学者。这将为交流最新的研究方法和证据创造一个框架。为了保证研究结果和证据的连续性和最大限度地传播，该项目将征集论文作为编辑过的书籍出版，并作为建立一个永久研究网络的第一步，该网络将创建一个专门的网站，在那里可以存储书目和文件，供公众查阅。由于南欧和北非最近在该地区历史方面的事态发展，以及由于当时英国在地中海的海上和海军力量发挥的重要作用，英国学者需要参与这项研究，因此这一项目具有紧迫性和及时性。

Summary 'Intercultural Contacts, Multiple Identities and Shifting Allegiances: the Caravane Maritime and its Protagonists in the Early Modern Mediterranean'.Contemporary geopolitical, religious and cultural issues, such as the co-habitation of Christianity and Islam and the integration of the Southern shores of the Mediterranean into the Western European economy after the Treaty of Barcelona (1995) have reinvigorated many of the classic Mediterranean issues that have been at the foundations of historical studies of this area.The commercial network of maritime trade activities across the Eastern Mediterranean and Northern Africa in the early modern period created a web of people of various faiths, nationalities and social classes, which for centuries permitted and fostered a constant exchange of ideas, customs and information, cutting across religious denominations and borders. This maritime trade network was known as the Caravane maritime.By better understanding the Caravane maritime we will better understand the historical roots of our current intra-Mediterranean relations. To do this, we need to bring together all the relevant scholars working on the various different aspects of this maritime traffic, including economic and social historians, literary scholars, specialists of Mediterranean studies and of the Ottoman world, as the Caravane maritime's surviving documentary evidence is spread throughout the Mediterranean in dozens of archives (often not catalogued and difficult to trace) and is written in several different languages. This project will bring together in an international workshop leading academics from the United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Spain, France, Greece, the United States, Malta and Australia. This will create a framework for the exchange of the latest research methods and evidence. In order to guarantee continuity and maximize the dissemination of research findings and evidence, the project will solicit papers for publication as an edited book, and be the first step in establishing a permanent research network that will create a dedicated website where bibliographies and documents could be stored for public access. There is an urgency and timeliness to this project, due to the recent developments in Southern Europe and North Africa regarding the history of the region and the need for British scholarship to engage with this research, due to the important role played by British maritime and naval power in the Mediterranean at the time.