On the Use of Legal Resources and the Definition of Group Boundaries. A Prosopographic Analysis of the French Nation and the British Factory in Eighteenth-Century Naples

Roberto Zaugg (1)

1 UNIL - Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne

This essay examines the geographic origins, the political belongings and the confessional profiles of the members of the two most important mercantile nations of eighteenth-century southern Italy: the French nation and the British factory of Naples. Taking into account their pronounced prosopographic heterogeneity, it shows how legal resources and their social uses played a crucial role in defining the boundaries of such groups.

Mots clés: History; Mediterranean; Diaspora; Diaspora studies; Legal pluralism; Maritime law; French history; British history; Naples; Italian history; Migrations

Domaines: Histoire

Roberto Zaugg. On the Use of Legal Resources and the Definition of Group Boundaries. A Prosopographic Analysis of the French Nation and the British Factory in Eighteenth-Century Naples. Union in Separation. Diasporic Groups and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean (1100-1800), 2015. ⟨hal-01538834⟩