Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80270-284-2
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hancock, Annabel Laura

Forrest, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsethik, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

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

Über Autor(innen)

Forrest, Ian
Ian Forrest is Head of Humanities and Professor of Social and Religious History at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on ideas, inequality, and institutions in the Middle Ages.

Hancock, Annabel Laura
Annabel Laura Hancock is a Postdoctoral Associate Member of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford.