Foundation and Migration

Sponsoring Organization(s)

ERC-Project "Foundations in Medieval Societies: Cross-Cultural Comparisons," Humboldt Univ. Berlin

Organizer Name

Zachary Chitwood

Organizer Affiliation

Humboldt-Univ. Berlin

Presider Name

Zachary Chitwood

Paper Title 1

The Roman Diaconiae: Charitable Institutions and Their Founders in an Immigrant Society

Presenter 1 Name

Philipp Winterhager (Gründler Travel Award Winner)

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Humboldt-Univ. Berlin

Paper Title 2

Migration and Local Society: The Spread of Foundations in Early Medieval Lucca

Presenter 2 Name

Paul Predatsch

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Humboldt-Univ. Berlin

Paper Title 3

Medieval Jewish Foundations for Promoting Religiously-Motivated Migration

Presenter 3 Name

Emese Kozma

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Humboldt-Univ. Berlin

Start Date

16-5-2015 10:00 AM

Session Location

Valley II Eicher 202

Description

The papers in this session explore the dynamic between endowments or foundations and migration in three different contexts: that of medieval Lucca, Rome and the Jewish Diaspora. While migrations and endowments have largely been studied as separate phenomena, the presenters here will discuss three cases in which these two sub-fields overlap, and by doing so demonstrate that they can be studied together in a heuristically useful way.

Zachary Chitwood