On the move: food, merchants and the early modern European city

This collaboration historically contextualises some of the issues associated with globalisation and the city through food and philosophies of health and status.

The projects deepen understandings of merchants at the heart of cultural and ideological exchanges in the 16-18th centuries.

These influential individuals enjoyed the benefits of global flows of goods, ideas and people, but publically expressed concerns about people from ‘beyond’ sharing the same space.

A lecture given by Dr. Sarah Milne, On the move: food, merchants and the early modern European city, took place on 9 May 2019.

Area

Heritage and Philosophy

UCL leads

• Sarah Milne, The Bartlett School of Architecture

Partner leads

Sapienza Università di Roma

• Nunzio Allocca