Conference
Zones of Fracture in Modern Europe
Baltic Countries - Balkans - Northern Italy
10th - 14th September 2003
Villa Vigoni
Loveno di Menaggio
NB. All presentations will be 20 minutes, the introductions by the chairs 10 minutes, followed by 15 minutes discussion plus a discussion at the end of each session
WEDNESDAY 10.09.2003
Arrival
20.00 Dinner
THURSDAY 11.09.2003
9.00 Introduction
Robert Frost, London
Geographic-historical Classification
David Parrott, Oxford
Introduction
Almut Bues, Warszawa "The last region and province of Christendom" or the location of the Baltic countries
Maria Pia Pedani, Venezia Beyond the frontier: the Ottoman border in the Adriatic context
Rossitsa Gradeva, Sofia The Ottoman Balkans - a zone of fracture or a zone of contact: some notes for discussion
13.00 Lunch
15.30 Political Patterns
George Lukowski, Birmingham
Introduction
Marite Jakovleva, Riga
Duchy of Courland: efforts to survive during the reign of Kettlers
Tobias Mörschel, Bonn
Between Habsburg, France and Italy: politics and diplomacy of the duchy of Savoy in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century
Nenad Moacanin, Zagreb
Croatia and Bosnia: an "eternel" movement from integration to dissolution and back again
20.00 Dinner
FRIDAY 12.09.2003
9.30 Social Patterns
Hamish Scott, St Andrews
Introduction
Gunner Lind, Kobenhavn
Reversing top and bottom: cultural hierarchies and political loyalties among Danish and German elements in the Danish composite state, 1461-1864
Egidio Ivetić, Padova
Tra Italia e Balcani: l’Adriatico orientale
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Warszawa
"Turkish yoke" revisited: the Ottoman Empire in the eyes of its non-Muslim subjects
13.00 Lunch
15.30 Economical Patterns
Maurice Aymard, Paris
Introduction
Jurate Kiaupiene, Vilnius
Baltic sea world in the early modern time: specific features of the economical development
Luca Mocarelli, Milano
L’economia di una regione di confine: l’area lombarda in età moderna
Bogdan Murgescu, Bucuresti
Early modern economies of South East Europe between Istanbul and the West
20.00 Dinner
SATURDAY 13.09.2003
9.00 Cultural/Confessional Patterns
Istvan G. Toth, Budapest
Introduction
Jürgen Beyer, Tartu
Implementing Lutheran cultural patterns in rural Livonia, Estonia and Courland, c. 1630-1710
Cecilia Nubola, Trento
Frontiere ecclesiastiche e frontiere religiose: gli stati dell’Italia settentrionale
Maria Craciun, Cluj-Napoca
Religious co-habitation in 16th century Moldavia
Summary
Wolfgang Reinhard, Freiburg/Firenze
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Excursion
20.00 Dinner
SUNDAY 14.09.2003
8.30 Breakfast
Departure
