Caramel and Rospocher win the European History Quarterly Article Prize 2024

Niccolò Caramel and Massimo Rospocher are the winners of the European History Quarterly Article Prize 2024 for their article ‘Mobility, Print and Trade in Europe: The Case of the Tesini Pedlars (17th-19th Centuries)’.

The committee reported on the article as follows:
Through a case study of print and pedlars in an Alpine valley, Caramel and Rospocher demonstrate early modern Europe’s transcultural connections. The study used 4,000 deeds relating to the Tesini’s activities in the mobilisation of books and engravings across Central Europe and traced the pedlars as they spread out across Central Europe. Evocatively written, the article presents a vivid picture of the opportunities and perils of life as a pedlar in early modern Europe as well as demonstrating the rich, multilingual archival sources relating to this social and economic history.