Sea adventurers. 7th-17th century.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 23320 |
| Format | 20.3 x 26 |
| Détails | 224 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754109611 |
From Sinbad the Sailor to Marco Polo, then from Ibn Battuta and Vasco da Gama to the East India Companies, extraordinary travel stories have recounted the richness of maritime trade between the seas of the Old World. This exhibition, which will open at the Institut du Monde Arabe next November, then at the MuCEM from May 2017, and its catalog will lead the visitor and the reader to the intersection of African gold and Western silver, Golconda diamonds and Venetian glassworks, porcelain, silks, and spices from China and the Moluccas. Far from being an obstacle between people and civilizations, the seas and oceans are shared spaces that allow us to meet others and trade with them. After long considering the sea a perilous space, men then learned to overcome their fears to better travel there, by developing multiple knowledge, initially empirical, soon revisited by technical progress and the development of scientific knowledge. Armed with these achievements, navigators went ever further, more surely and faster to expand and tighten the web of exchange networks. This exhibition will thus focus on the voyages and maritime routes traveled by sailors, travelers and merchants, all in search of fortunes to be made, souls to convert, new things to discover. At a time when the intensification of globalization processes challenges the human sciences, this work presents a global history of the Ancient World. While linking together the different histories of cities, states and empires, it bears witness to their exchanges, their relationships and, ultimately, their convergence in a connected history.
From Sinbad the Sailor to Marco Polo, then from Ibn Battuta and Vasco da Gama to the East India Companies, extraordinary travel stories have recounted the richness of maritime trade between the seas of the Old World. This exhibition, which will open at the Institut du Monde Arabe next November, then at the MuCEM from May 2017, and its catalog will lead the visitor and the reader to the intersection of African gold and Western silver, Golconda diamonds and Venetian glassworks, porcelain, silks, and spices from China and the Moluccas. Far from being an obstacle between people and civilizations, the seas and oceans are shared spaces that allow us to meet others and trade with them. After long considering the sea a perilous space, men then learned to overcome their fears to better travel there, by developing multiple knowledge, initially empirical, soon revisited by technical progress and the development of scientific knowledge. Armed with these achievements, navigators went ever further, more surely and faster to expand and tighten the web of exchange networks. This exhibition will thus focus on the voyages and maritime routes traveled by sailors, travelers and merchants, all in search of fortunes to be made, souls to convert, new things to discover. At a time when the intensification of globalization processes challenges the human sciences, this work presents a global history of the Ancient World. While linking together the different histories of cities, states and empires, it bears witness to their exchanges, their relationships and, ultimately, their convergence in a connected history.