Between 16th and 17th century, Messina had a dominat role in the whole eastern Sicily. Besides the market integration across the Straits were a significant point for the economy of Messina and the business relations with Calabria improved. In ports, with goods and people, also come ideas. From Messina, even in this sense ‘door of Sicily’, Lutheranism, before, and Calvinism, then, spread over Sicilian society, although the Sicilian Inquisition prevented them from striking root. This paper will examine Messina and its hinterland as a case study in a wider context by focusing on some aspects of international trade flows and some religious and cultural implications regarding the tensions between ruling and subordinate groups.
Messina and the Eastern Sicily: a Mediterranean Port and its hinterland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, in «Archivio Storico Messinese», n. 94/95, 2013-2014, pp. 7-16.
BOTTARI, Salvatore
2014-01-01
Abstract
Between 16th and 17th century, Messina had a dominat role in the whole eastern Sicily. Besides the market integration across the Straits were a significant point for the economy of Messina and the business relations with Calabria improved. In ports, with goods and people, also come ideas. From Messina, even in this sense ‘door of Sicily’, Lutheranism, before, and Calvinism, then, spread over Sicilian society, although the Sicilian Inquisition prevented them from striking root. This paper will examine Messina and its hinterland as a case study in a wider context by focusing on some aspects of international trade flows and some religious and cultural implications regarding the tensions between ruling and subordinate groups.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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