AN INTERROGATION OF VENETIAN COURIERS FROM 1723.

The paper studies one typical interrogation (costituto) from early eighteenthcentury Venetian couriers who walked the republic's overland connection from Cattaro to Istanbul. In considering how time and space are reported in the included primary source, this article looks at how these modes of spatial and temporal representation relate to the structural realities of early modern long-distance travelling, thereby recovering the early modern road with its infrastructure and courier networks as a dynamic locus of contemporary politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]