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    Chapter The Revival of Cassiodorus’ Variae in the High Middle Ages (10th-11th century) (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: This paper is based on a number of reuses of Cassiodorus’ Variae that have been found in notarial documents written in Rome and Lazio between the tenth and eleventh century. Given that the manuscript tradition of the Variae becomes visible only from the twelfth-thirteenth centuries onwards, these reuses are a good starting point to reflect on a specific question: what were the practical and contingent motivations that, in Lazio, stimulated the intellectual elites to research and reuse the Variae? By following an alternative path to that of the manuscript evidence, it is thus possible better to identify the contexts of preservation, circulation, and practical use of the Variae underlying the more evident late medieval revival.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 10th-11th Century ; Lazio ; Rome ; Cassiodorus’ Variae ; Medieval notaries ; Legal Renaissance ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Chapter Accoppiamenti giudiziosi. Professionismo militare e signoria rurale in Italia nei secoli XIV e XV (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Mercenarism and Lordship are deeply linked in the Italy of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is difficult to distinguish between these two realities. Equally, it is difficult to understand the social impact of the mercenary phenomenon in reference to the lordship (this is an original theme). This work aims to clarify these aspects, with the use of new interpretative categories for the analysis of the complicated dynamics through which the two phenomena influenced each other.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; lordship ; history of warfare ; mercenarism ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Ostrogoths vs. Franks: Imagining the Past in the Middle Ages (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: This introductory essay aims at highlighting some aspects concerning the connections between the Ostrogoths and Franks in the Middle Ages. To this end, cases from different contexts and chronologies have been examined: firstly, Giovanni Villani’s chronicle, which conveys a polarized image of the Gothic and Carolingian worlds; and then some testimonies from the ninth century, that use the Ostrogothic model in connection with the present in a more complex and ambivalent manner. The various interpretations of the Gothic world are linked by a tendency to emphasize historical analogies, that leads to an overall and protracted disinterest in the specific forms of Ostrogothic society and in work that most documents it, Cassiodorus’ Variae.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Communal Age ; Carolingian Age ; Florence ; Giovanni Villani ; Walahfrid Strabo ; Cassiodorus ; Franks ; Ostrogoths ; Political Use of History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Chapter Altre rivolte. Violenza antisignorile nell’Italia tardomedievale (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Peasant revolts were widespread in late medieval Europe. Based on the extensive investigation of the project La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo, this essay examines the numerous cases of peasant rebellion in the Italian peninsula, scarcely known to historians – who have mostly focused on urban uprisings – and never assessed on a large scale. The comparative perspective allows to analyse the causes, contexts, relevance, and results of such revolts, as well as to understand not only the features of lordships in late medieval Italy, but also the nature of the relationship between lords and subjects.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; lordship ; revolts ; rural communities ; peasant violence ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 6 Le signorie trentine (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In recent decades, the importance of rural lordship in the history of Italy in the late Middle Ages has been reconsidered and reassessed. On the basis of a wealth of archive documentation, this volume offers a systematic and reasoned description of the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of rural lordship in a territory located “on the borders of Italy'” the episcopal principality of Trento in the 14th and 15th centuries. From their castles scattered in the alpine valleys, at the foot of the mountains, the noble families of Trento looked increasingly towards Vienna and the Habsburg empire; in their relations with the peasant world, they set up in the 15th century balances of power destined to remain almost intact throughout the modern age, until the end of the First World War.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; XIV-XV centuries ; Trentino ; Rural Lordship ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter La signoria rurale in Italia alla fine del medioevo e le istituzioni ecclesiastiche (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The essay illustrates some aspects of the control exercised by Italian rural lords in the 14th and 15th centuries over ecclesiastical institutions located on lordly territory (parish churches, chapels, monasteries). It dwells in particular on the rights of jus patronatus and relations with the ecclesiastical hierarchies.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 14th-15th century ; Italy ; lordships ; churches ; jus patronatus ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter L’azione politica dei sudditi (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Within a broad and articulated political action of medieval peasant society, the essay aims to identify the specific dynamics relating to Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through an analysis of the domains of action related to justice, tax collection, frontiers, churches, new villages and clienteles, a specific peasant focus is outlined in the search for effective mediation tools between local society and princely powers.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; peasant society ; villages ; political action ; lordship ; regional states ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Useful knowledge, technological innovation and economic development in the European ceramic industries, 14th-18th centuries (2023)
    Firenze University Press | L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Ceramics have been essential in the domestic sphere and their production has undergone in the preindustrial era technological and cultural changes whose importance is obvious. This paper is to show in a very concise way how the production of European glazed ceramics underwent three phases of intense transformation of useful knowledge related to its production, with a successive accumulation leading to increasingly efficient results and a higher level of productivity. Moreover, it can be safely stated that, without this accumulation, the great progress of the 19th century in this area would have been impossible.
    Keywords: Ceramics ; Knowledge Economy ; useful knowledge ; Middle Ages ; Early Modern Ages ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
    Language: English
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    La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 4. Quadri di sintesi e nuove prospettive di ricerca (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In late medieval Italy, the importance of lordship has often been overlooked by studies. Yet its diffusion was far from marginal: indeed, in most Italian regions it stretched over larger portions of population and territory, larger than in previous centuries. In 2017, a collective research project was undertaken to fill this gap in studies, the PRIN La signoria rurale nel XIV-XV secolo: per ripensare l’Italia tardomedievale. This volume constitutes its latest outcome. It summarises the main acquisitions achieved and provides new reflections on the many themes dealt with in the PRIN research: the economy of lordships, the forms of documentation and celebration, the relationship with cities, states and communities, the political action of the subjects, the social impact of lordship and more.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Late Medieval Italy ; Lordship ; paesant society state ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Signorie e poteri sovralocali nell’Italia centrale. Stato della Chiesa, Toscana e Sardegna (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The essay analyses the political relations between rural lordships and supralocal powers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries central Italy, on the base of researches carried out during the 2015 project PRIN. The areas considered are the territories of the Papal State, Tuscany and Sardinia. The essay proceeds by territorial frameworks, with the aim of bringing out the different peculiarities of each area and the most relevant common phenomena regarding the relational dynamics between the secular or ecclesiastical domain spaces and the higher powers, with particular reference to the Papacy, to the cities and sovereigns (as in the case of the Aragon Crown in the Sardinian context).
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 14th- 15th century ; lordship ; supralocal powers ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Signorie rurali e poteri superiori in Italia settentrionale (secoli XIV-XV) (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The essay focuses on the relationship between states and rural lordships in northern Italy in the late Middle Ages. Two main questions lie at the core of the investigation: on the one hand, the influence exerted by central authorities on how seigneurial power was performed, legitimised, and transmitted; on the other hand, the role acquired by rural lordships in the organisation of the various states. In both cases the highest attention is paid to the different origins of seigneurial experiences, which still played a crucial part at the end of the Middle Ages in determining the chances of survival of lordships, the lords’ political role, and their prerogatives over subjects.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 14th-15th century ; Italy ; lordship ; state-building ; feudalism ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter I prelievi non fondiari (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The essay attempts a survey of the economic and social impact of non-landed levies, meaning by this all the drainages of wealth in which the exercise of coercive powers played a decisive role. It follows a “macro” and “geo” economic approach, paying particular attention to the redistribution of wealth on the territory. After an inventory of the different types of levies, it proposes an overview for 4 macro-areas (1. the Alpine and Apennine areas; 2. the marginal areas; 3 the expanding areas of the South and Sicily: 4. Po Valley), with a focus on levies that appear to have the greatest impact. That is: tolls and other charges on trade; control of collective resources; personal burdens (military and civil); and also state taxes, monopolies or tributes belonging to the state and granted to the lords in various forms of delegation, not ubiquitous, but sometimes important. Only a few hints are dedicated to judicial proceeds, rights on the circulation of land and people, and tributes on the borderline with the landed-based ones.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; levies ; economy ; coercion ; resource control ; redistribution ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Pervasività della signoria (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The article examines two explicitly different meanings of the expression 'pervasiveness of lordship'. The first moves from the more commune meaning of pervasiveness, understood as a synonym of capillary diffusion, to distinguish between areas of seigniorial centrality and areas of seigniorial marginality in late medieval Italy. The second meaning understands “pervasiveness” in a less usual sense, i.e. as the capacity of lordship to thoroughly penetrate the surrounding world. After describing this notion of pervasiveness, the article illustrates some examples, drawn from various late medieval Italian regions, of lordships without pervasiveness and of pervasive lordships, questioning the capacity of seigniorial pervasiveness to survive and reconfigure itself in the late Middle Ages.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; aristocracy ; pervasiviness ; lordship ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Monarchia, signori e feudi nei regni di Sicilia e Napoli (secoli XIII-XV) (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The essay looks into the troubled relationship between sovereign power and feudal power in the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily after the Vespro. Moving from the analysis of the European and Mediterranean political space in which both reigns were embedded, it brings out the repercussions of the political and military history on the evolution of Southern seigneuries, the role of the papacy, the placement of seigneuries and fiefs within the monarchic state.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Kingdom of Naples ; Kingdom of Sicily ; Aragon ; Anjou ; Papacy ; fief ; seigniorial powers ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Giordano da Pisa e il pubblico. Modelli e comportamenti (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: The production of Giordano da Pisa (1260-1310) offers an excellent example for assessing the relationship between a Dominican preacher and his lay audience. His preaching presents simultaneously all the features that make it possible to regard it as a document of how the preacher and the public may have influenced each other. This paper illustrates how the friar proposes a social model and individual behaviours in the relationship between the ideal world and reality.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Pisa ; Giordano da Pisa ; Preaching
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Poesia e filosofia a Firenze tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: This article draws a comparison between the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century library collection of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella and that of the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce. Such an investigation casts new light on the links between philosophy and po- etry which enliven Dante’s literary production. In particular, the author considers Aristotelian works as potential vehicles of literary knowledge about, for instance, Homeric characters.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Franciscan Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella ; Convent of Santa Croce
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Tipologie amministrative della signoria in Italia fra medioevo ed età moderna (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: Lordship management is a broad subject scarcely treated by historians; even when analysed, it has never been the object of exhaustive reconstructions and systematic surveys. The article provides a first, provisional overview of the main forms of lordship administration that changed depending on the period, region, lordship, type of revenue and many other factors. The Weberian notion of ideal type is particularly helpful in order to try to master the multiplicity and variety of forms of administration used in practice. On its basis, the essay identifies two basic ideal types, ‘Direct Management’ and ‘Indirect Management’, which are in turn divided into five sub-ideal types. Lastly, it questions the economic and social effects of each form of management, and the possibility of identifying, depending on the period and region, a more or less extensive diffusion of lordships attributable to the different ideal types.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Modern era ; Italy ; lordship ; Max Weber Ideal type.
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter La morte del re, le ragioni del diritto e l’etica dei mercanti in una causa fiorentina del Quattrocento (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: The essay analyzes a judicial case of the Mercanzia court in the early Quattrocento Florence, which involved the execution of an insurance deed by the merchant and poet Cino Rinuccini concerning the date of the death of Ladislaus king of Naples in 1414. The case, considering the relevance of the actor and the subject of the insurance agreement, allows us to study the discussion on the legal and ethical value of such deeds. The Appendix provides the edition of a legal consilium devoted to the case, in which a distinguished commission of lawyers discusses the problem according to the interpretation of the ius commune.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 15th century ; Florence ; Cino Rinucci ; Ladislaus king of Naples ; Court of Mercanzia ; legal consulting ; economy and ethics
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    Chapter The struggle for (self-)integration. Manuscripts, liturgy and networks in Verona at the time of Bishop Ratold (c. 802-840/3) (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Between the 780s and the 840s the episcopal see of Verona was held by bishops coming from beyond the Alps, appointed by the Carolingian rulers and charged with control over a prestigious and strategically key bishopric. They were called upon to boost the communications between the local elites and the political and social machinery of the Carolingian world. In order to achieve that, they first had to negotiate their own integration in their new field of action, and to be acknowledged as effective political mediators between Verona and the rulers. The tools they used to do that were, on the one hand, their own skills and previous experience, on the other, the centre for textual production, preservation and dissemination they found in Verona, that is, the cathedral scriptorium and library. The books that can be attributed to them allow us to keep trace of the networks of relationships and cultural exchanges they developed, linking the two sides of the Alps. This paper focuses more specifically on the activities and endeavours of Bishop Ratold (c. 802-840). The liturgical and hagiographical manuscripts produced in Verona in that period are examined as key markers of Ratold’s intellectual networks, and of the ways in which he used them for his own need for self-integration. They also provide elements casting light on the introduction and reception of the Carolingian cultural reforms in the Kingdom of Italy.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; North-Eastern Italy ; Verona ; Reichenau ; Ratold ; liturgical manuscripts ; Carolingian religious reforms. ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Construire un comté: Sinopoli (1330-1335) (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: Charles I of Anjou restored the counties according to the Norman system; his successors im- proved them and let them become a space of local power inside the the Royal districts, the gi- ustizierati. At the same time some aristocratic families consolidated themselves, like the Ruffo of Calabria, lords of Sinopoli, who obtained the comital title in 1334. The paper analyses two important records: the cartulario 1 and the cartulario 17, integrating them with all the availa- ble documents. The cartulario 17 contains platea dating from 1335, which includes one or two older texts written in Greek and translated into Latin. It is at the same time an inventory and a municipal statute. The cartulario 17 is the main source for studying the creation, composition and ruling of the county of Sinopoli, not to mention the various world of the subjects to the lords, according to their status (vassallus) or their possessions as freemen (burgenses). We have also suffeudatarii and other people depending on the baron, like the raccomandati.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Sinopoli ; Ruffo di Scilla ; Family Archives ; Lordship
    Language: French
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    Chapter Nicholas Trevet : le théologien anglais qui parlait à l’oreille des Italiens (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: The commentaries composed by the English theologian Nicholas Trevet at the beginning of the fourteenth century not only bear witness to his connections with Santa Maria Novella. They also testify to the importance of his contribution to the transfer of knowledge about Antiquity and the rebirth of antiquarianism in the Italian peninsula. This essay argues that Trevet’s Scholastic commentaries, presented as an expositio, met the need that Italian intellectuals had of a fuller understanding of classic literature, pagan mythology and Roman history.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella ; Nicholas Trevet
    Language: French
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    Chapter Una terra senza nome. Sviluppo economico e identità collettive nella bassa pianura milanese (tardo medioevo-prima età moderna) (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: In the Historia de situ Ambrosianae urbis, written in the early fourteenth century, the notary Giovanni of Cermenate offered an unprecedented tripartite image of the Milanese contado: Seprio, north-west; Martesana, north-east; and a third indefinite “part” which can be identified with the plain south of the city, not exactly defined by Giovanni of Cermenate. The paper investigates such an absence, by linking it to the general weakness of collective identities provoked by the extraordinary economic development of the low Milanese plain.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Early Modern Times ; 13th-16th Centuries ; Milan ; Rural Communities.
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    Chapter Chronologie de Santa Maria Novella (1291-1319) (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: The identification of all the friars active in Santa Maria Novella on a regular basis or only temporarily is a puzzling issue, due to the high mobility of Dominican friars as well as the complexities of the internal organization of the convent. This contribution offers a schematic chronology of the Florentine Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella between 1291 and 1319. For each year, the prior, the main lector, the lector of the Sentences, the students, and other friars active in the convent are listed, together with further information about the major events taking place at the convent.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella ; Chronology
    Language: French
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    Chapter Une métaphysique thomiste florentine. Notule sur le traité De modis rerum de Remigio de’ Girolami (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: This article examines Remigio de’ Girolami’s treatise De modis rerum. This metaphysical treatise addresses all aspects of this discipline, which, in the footsteps of his master Thomas Aquinas, Remigio understands as an ontology. The investigation confirms the Thomistic orientation of Remigio’s philosophy but also highlights Remigio’s acute perception of the complex relationships between thought, language and reality. Thus, the author argues that this treatise proposes an innovative approach to metaphysics based on the study of the meanings of key notions of the discipline.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella ; Metaphysics
    Language: French
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    Chapter Gli “Ammaestramenti degli Antichi”di Bartolomeo da San Concordio. Prime osservazioni in vista dell’edizione critica (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: Bartholomew of San Concordio translated his Documenta antiquorum into the vernacular presumably around 1297-1302, during his stay at the convent of Santa Maria Novella. Cesare Segre suggested such a date based on the dedication of the translation to Geri Spini, a Florentine banker and politician who was a supporter of the Black Guelfs and a close friend of Corso Donati. However, the relationships between the Dominican Friar and the Commune of Florence, as well as the potential connections between Bartholomew’s self-translation and Florentine political contingencies, are still to be investigated.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella ; Bartholomew of San Concordio
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852) (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The article consists of two intertwined sections. In the first, I intend to reconstruct the processes of political and social transformation that took place in Lucca under the actions of Bishops Berengar (837-843) and Ambrose (843-852): foreigners appointed in succession by the Court. In order to do this, I will take the viewpoint offered by the numerous private charters preserved in the Archivio Storico Diocesano of Lucca. Secondly, I will present the first results of a study on the manuscripts of the same period preserved there – an heritage not yet fully explored and appreciated. I will focus in particular on the most-recently entered text in ms 490: the so-called Dicta Gelasii papae. It was written in a Carolingian hand that Armando Petrucci has compared to that of Bishop Berengar. The text constitutes an exceptional insight into the turmoil that animated the sacred palace after the «penitential reform» of 813, and which spread throughout the Empire within a general movement of correctio.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; Italy ; Lucca ; Carolingians ; Gelasius I ; Lothair I ; correctio ; penitential reform ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Storie di strutture: note intorno a una lettera di Violante a Tabacco (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: What are the limits of a history of structures? Can we aspire to a total or global history? In a letter to Giovanni Tabacco from 1980, discovered by Gian Maria Varanini, Cinzio Violante expressed his dissatisfactions as a historian, in a period in which he renewed his methodological ideas, with new research and broad summary visions. The problems of Violante and Tabacco are still relevant nowadays, while their dialogue is the sign of a generation united by a way of being historians that became the intellectual and moral commitment of entire existences.
    Keywords: 20th century ; Middle Ages ; Cinzio Violante ; Giovanni Tabacco ; history of structures ; total history.
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    Description: On the 1st of July 1504, Ercole d’Este, duke of Ferrara (1471-1505), dictated his last will. His testament (that will be published here for the first time) has two main features of interest. Apart from designating Ercole’s first son, Alfonso, as his heir, Ercole establishes here the principle of male and legitimate birth right as the only rule for future successions within the Este dynasty. He also leaves to the three unmarried sons – and only to them – an amount of resources big enough to guarantee them a decent way of life. Such resources were provvigioni (in the form of sums of money, fiscal revenues and rural properties) rich enough to let them live such as princes.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; early modern age ; 15th-16th centuries ; Ercole I d’Este ; will ; succession’s rules ; second born heritage ; resources allocation ; rural structures ; gastalderie.
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    Chapter I Conti erariali dei feudi nella I serie delle Dipendenze della Sommaria dell’Archivio di Stato di Napoli (XV secolo): per un nuovo inventario ragionato (2022)
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    Description: In this paper we present the results obtained from the systematic investigation of the sub-series ‘Conti erariali dei feudi’ of the fund ‘Dipendenze della Sommaria’ preserved in the State Ar- chives of Naples. A reasoned analytical inventory is proposed, limited to the documentation re- lating to the period between 1421 and 1500, for a count of 58 envelopes and 212 dossiers. This is fiscal documentation that has flowed into the Archive of the Camera della Sommaria following the deliveries by the provincial administrators required to submit their work to the audit of the rational of the king, but also as a result of traumas and confiscations on fiefs by the sovereign.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Kingdom of Naples ; Fiscality ; Regia camera della Sommaria ; Inventory
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    Description: More than four hundred letters and postcards remain of the long correspondence between Carlo Cipolla, born in Verona and professor of modern history in Turin and then in Florence, and Luigi Schiaparelli, one of the students from his time in Turin. The majority of the letters came from the student, on the grounds of communicative asymmetry and conservative accidents. There are over twenty years of epistolary dialogue (1894-1916) in this publication, which now contributes significantly to the knowledge of Schiaparelli (the first modern scholar of diplomacy and palaeography in Italy), his years of apprenticeship and his career début, as well as on the vicissitudes of the last years of Cipolla’s career. Further insights are also gained on several aspects of the history of historical studies in Italy (and partly in Germany) in the decades between the 19th and 20th century, up to the World War I. The correspondence offers infinite, unpublished glimpses and lively accounts on people, events and discussions animating this intense season of Medieval Studies.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Italy ; Historiography ; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFL Palaeography
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    Description: This article draws a comparison between Dante’s vision and the cultural, political, and propagandistic conception promoted by the Angevins, from the divergences in the interpretation of Aquinas’ doctrine of Justice to the ones regarding the notion of nobility. Dante expressely chooses his meeting with the Angevin Charles Martel (Pd. VIII) to set human free will in opposition to the Angevin vision of virtue as a good inherited from generation to generation: Charles is a virtuous man not because of, but despite being born into a family which denies the authority of Empire, which is to say the only guarantor of the bonum commune.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Dante Alighieri ; Remigio de' Girolami ; Anjou
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    Chapter The two versions of the life of Pope Sergius II in the Liber pontificalis. Anti-Frankish feeling in Rome after Louis II’s expedition of 844 (2022)
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    Description: The analysis of the two versions of the life of Pope Sergius II (844-847) published by Louis Duchesne in his edition of the Liber pontificalis aims at identifying and discussing the tools developed by the Lateran to illustrate the relationship between the Apostolic See and Carolingian power at the time of the Emperor Lothair. I will first present the two versions of the life of Sergius and their circulation, then highlight the rhetorical strategies employed by the author to diminish the political significance of Louis II’s journey to Rome (844). Secondly, I will refer to the second part of the so-called Farnesianus version of the life of Sergius II. In this particular section, the author, before the incomplete report of the Saracen raid on the mouth of the Tiber and the sack of St. Peter's Basilica (846), critically describes the pontificate of Sergius II, dominated by the negative figure of the pontiff's brother, Benedict, who imposed his tyranny over Rome and its territory on behalf of the emperor (most likely as a missus on the imperial side). In this regard, it is interesting to evaluate which are the concealed arguments introduced here to represent the alleged effects of the application of the Constitutio Romana (824) on the socio-political structures of the city and on the history of the Roman Church, to offer a hypothesis on the context of the composition of this version of the life of Sergius II. In particular, I will dwell on the denouncing of the simoniacal heresy, shown to be have been triumphant during the pontificate of Sergius II, as sign of the re-emergence in Rome of a theme particularly strongly felt among the Carolingian reformers, and one which can perhaps be most associated with the pontificate of Sergius’ successor Leo IV (847-855).
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; Carolingian Italy ; Rome ; Pope Sergius II ; Pope Leo IV ; Saracens ; Liber pontificalis ; Codex Farnesianus ; simony ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Representations of Lothar I in the Liber pontificalis Ravennatis (2022)
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    Description: Lothar looms large in the Liber pontificalis of Ravenna, an episcopal gesta composed after 846 by a local cleric of that city named Agnellus. In its prefatory verse, Lothar was tied to the memory of his grandfather Charlemagne, and afterwards was presented as an ally of the city and its church, a relationship sealed by the service of the bishop George (837-846) as godfather to Lothar’s daughter Rotruda. Furthermore, upon the death of Louis the Pious, as part of an embassy attempting to resolve the conflicts between Lothar and his brothers, George sought to affirm Ravenna privileges on the eve of the battle of Fontenoy, an event described quite differently from other sources. Completed following these struggles, the Liber pontificalis of Ravenna used this image of Lothar to further claims of the special status of the city, especially in its independence from Rome and longstanding imperial connections, and actively sought to legitimize Lothar’s own position through a juxtaposition with Charlemagne. Although preserved in the accounts of the bishops of Ravenna, the singular efforts to elevate and memorialize Lothar differ from other contemporary institutional chronicles, and underscore the tension inherent in the narrative.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; Italy ; Ravenna ; Lothar I ; Agnellus of Ravenna ; Liber pontificalis Ravennatis ; civic memory ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Ouverture: Santa Maria Novella e Firenze: convento e città (2022)
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    Description: This Ouverture introduces the theme of the volume and highlights the convergences and inter- actions between the Commune of Florence and the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella by referring to a number of Remigio de’ Girolami’s sermons.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella ; Remigio de’ Girolami
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    «Fiere vicende dell’età di mezzo» (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: With the present Festschrift written in times of pandemic, the authors wish to honour and thank Gian Maria Varanini, paying tribute to him on the occasion of his retirement from the University. Varanini is a great scholar, sustained by an inexhaustible passion for history in all its dimensions, from the most minute to the most universal, and by a sensitive and critical attention to the interpretation of historical phenomena that has been provided by successive generations of scholars. A generous cultural organiser and an excellent publisher and editor, as an academic and professor he has always been committed to the safeguard of historical disciplines. Papers of E. Artifoni, S. Carocci, G. Castelnuovo, P. Corrao, M.N. Covini, M. Della Misericordia, F. Del Tredici, M. Gentile, P. Grillo, P. Guglielmotti, I. Lazzarini, J.-C. Maire Vigueur, E.I. Mineo, G. Petralia, L. Provero, R. Rao, F. Senatore, L. Tanzini, M. Zabbia.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Early Modern Times ; Italy ; Historiography ; Method ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
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    Chapter Canons, books of canons, and ecclesiastical judgments in Carolingian Italy: the Council of Mantua, 827 (2022)
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    Description: The long-running jurisdictional dispute between the patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado entered a period of particular activity in the 820s, culminating in a judicial decision in Aquileia’s favor at the Council of Mantua in 827. This council and its consequences offer fertile ground for exploring the ways that texts figured in ecclesiastical conflicts in ninth-century Italy. Recent work has shed light on the role hagiographical texts played in this dispute. This chapter examines another “textual” dimension: the role of canons and canon-law norms in arguments and decisions, in the “courtroom” and beyond. The chapter concludes with brief discussion of a different case, from Lucca, that shows with particular clarity the close connection that could exist between canon law in the manuscripts and in legal practice.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; North-Eastern Italy ; Mantua ; Aquileia-Grado ; Maxentius ; canon law ; legal practice ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Le reintegre o platee dei Sanseverino di Bisignano: diritti e prelievo signorile nella Calabria settentrionale (secolo XV - prima metà del XVI) (2022)
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    Description: The aim of this paper is to reassess the history of the Sanseverino family, princes of Bisignano in Calabria in the Late Middle Ages; by focusing on a specific and unpublished source: the so-called “reintegre or platee” as written in the first half of the 16th century. These are public sources mostly enlisting properties and benefits; they serve the purpose of re-possessing the privileges taken from the princes themselves over the previous century. The paper will therefore focus not only on the management and character of the seigneurial landholdings but also on the reconstruction of both the local networks of power exerted on the population and the local political system. It will shed new light on the still debated historiographical issue centered on the seigneurial authority in southern Italy by assessing its local rooting and pervasiveness since the 14th century.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Calabria ; Sanseverino of Bisignano ; feudalism ; lordship
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    Chapter L’usura tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella: Pietro de Trabibus e Remigio de’ Girolami a confronto (2022)
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    Description: Between 1290 and 1310, two Mendicant friars active in Florence dealt with the controversial issue of usury: the Franciscan lector Peter of Trabibus, who until now has been studied primarily for his relationship to Olivi’s teaching, and the Dominican Remigio de’ Girolami. In the mid-nineties of the thirteenth century, in the context of his quodlibetal questions, Peter of Trabibus discusses the social role of merchants and he broaches the question of the restitution of usurious gains. Some years later, Remigio also deals with similar issues in his quodlibetal questions and writes a treatise that bears the title De peccato usurae.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Franciscan Order ; Florence ; Usury
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    Chapter Fazioni e popolo in una provincia del dominio pontificio fra XIII e XIV secolo (2022)
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    Description: Between the 13th and 14th centuries, a number of cities in the inchoative papal state experimented a system of self-government that allowed the Guelph and Ghibelline factions, formally represented in those same bodies on an equal footing, to work alongside the more strictly communal magistracies. The case of Todi is rather well known, given the role that Bartolo da Sassoferrato assigns to it in his Tractatus de guelphis et gebellinis (ca. 1350), but current research has already ascertained that this political tradition appeared at least around 1260. Some evidence can suggest, however, that some form of integration of factions into the local institutional framework was possible elsewhere, and not far away, at Amelia for example. Here, in the new statute of the people (1343), we find a distribution of the roles of the priorato based on factions. At Todi, in 1337, something similar had happened: the statute issued that year followed the establishment of an explicitly popular regime which, in continuity with local tradition, integrated Guelphs and Ghibellines within it. The examples of these, and perhaps other, communities in the province of the Patrimonio di San Pietro in Tuscia can thus add some useful elements to the discussion of the problem of factions and their role in the communal and post-communal political order, and in particular the relationship between the people (popolo) as an institutional system and the parties.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th centuries ; Todi ; Factions ; People ; Papal State.
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    Chapter «Recevì la vostra litera a la quale e respondo». Qualche nota intorno alle reti epistolari del Trecento padano (2022)
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    Description: My essay focuses on the correspondences sent to the Gonzaga of Mantua and received and preserved in the Mantuan chancery during the 14th century. The broad range of correspondences gathered in the Mantuan archives covers almost all the north and central Italy, from Tuscany to the Val d’Adige, from Genoa to Venice. Its quantity and variety open the gate to a most needed investigation of the epistolary forms of political and diplomatic communication in the 14th century, therefore fostering a better understanding of this crucial period, squeezed between the better known communal Duecento and princely Quattrocento.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 14th century ; north-central Italy ; letter writing ; diplomacy.
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    Chapter Il cosmo di un signore padano del Quattrocento (2022)
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    Description: The description of the “good death” and of the funeral of Giberto Sanvitale, count of Belforte, offers a vantage point to understand the nature and the extension of the political horizon of a member of the fifteenth century Lombard high landed nobility. This accurate and unique report highlights the relevance of personal, non-territorial ties and the importance of the organic relationship between city and countryside, strengthened by factional allegiance, in the material constitution of the lordship.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 15th Century ; Lombardy ; Rural lordship ; Landed nobility ; Friendship ; Funerals.
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    Chapter Conclusions (2022)
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    Description: The summary highlights the extent to which the articles collected here go beyond previous research on bishops and open up new perspectives: The contributions no longer only ask about the "hard power" of bishops. Instead, they focus on episcopal "soft power": they impressively show that bishops knew how to use books, pen and ink to manipulate ideas and convictions and to reframe discourses. A basis for this new approach is provided by the scans of medieval manuscripts, which are now made available by libraries in Europe in large numbers and excellent quality.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; Italy ; bishops ; soft power ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Disciplinamento sociale e teologia nei Quodlibeta di Pietro de Trabibus (2022)
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    Description: This article analyzes some questiones quodlibetales (1296-1297) delivered by Peter of Trabibus, a Florentine Franciscan of Santa Croce. He reflects on and attempts to regulate Florentine society in times of unprecedented political and economic dynamism. Dealing with the definition of “new” sins, these questions examine tantalizing cases pertaining to economic life outside the convent, and which thus constitute matters of great juridical and political interest. The critical edition of Petrus of Trabibus’ questions 17 to 22, Quodlibet 2, here published for the first time, completes this contribution.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Franciscan Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Croce ; Peter of Trabibus
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    Chapter Lo “studium” e la biblioteca di Santa Maria Novella nel Duecento e nei primi anni del Trecento (con una postilla sul Boezio di Trevet) (2022)
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    Description: Building on recent scholarship, this article sketches the development of the Florentine studium of Santa Maria Novella in the thirteenth century, before it became a studium generale between 1305 and 1311. The catalogue of Santa Maria Novella’s library and the information regarding works which were conceived there are collected and analysed to outline the core of the ancient library. The first quire of the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. G 3.451 (cc. 1-8) constitutes a notable case study for the learning interests of Dominican friars. Finally, this article discusses the controversial letter written by Nicholas Trevet to the dedicatee of his commentary on Boethius’ Consolatio Philosophiae and re-assesses its disputed connec- tion with the Florentine environment.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella ; Mendicant Schools
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    Chapter Il «faticato peregrinaggio» di Isidoro Carini negli archivi e nelle biblioteche di Spagna (1881-1882) (2022)
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    Description: The Relazione by Isidoro Carini about his research mission in Spain (1881-1882) and the events of its publication allow to reconstruct the beginnings of both the use of spanish sources for the Sicilian and Italian medieval history and of the context of the Sicilian medieval historiography at the end of the 19th Century.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 19th-20th centuries ; Sicily ; Isidoro Carini ; historiography ; Spanish historical sources.
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    Chapter L’Archivio del principe di Taranto Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo (2022)
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    Description: In recent years, historiographical reflection has devoted more and more attention to the rela- tionship between the exercise of power and the processes of production/management of doc- uments, understood as real instruments of government, capable of guaranteeing the correct functioning of the administrative apparatus of kingdoms, principalities, republics and lord- ships, more or less extensive. The essay investigates one of the most important noble archives of the fifteenth-century Southern Italy, the archive of the Prince of Taranto, Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo, which over time has been invested by a vast process of dispersion. The fundamental objective is to take stock of the most consistent core of documents, coming from the principality of Taranto, and merged into the fond of the Regia Camera della Sommaria of the Archivio di Stato of Naples.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Kingdom of Naples ; principality of Taranto ; feudal archives ; accounting registers
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    Chapter «Per Padum fluvium termino currente usque [...] Civitatem Novam atque Mutinam». Consolidation and affirmation of the Church of Modena and Its bishops in 9th-entury Carolingian Italy (2022)
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    Description: This paper seeks to trace the developments which led the Church of Modena and its bishops to acquire a pre-eminent position in its diocese in the second half of the ninth century and for much of the following one. The analysis sets out from the highly fragmented post-Roman territorial context and from the efforts made by Lombard kings, which were mostly directed towards the fiscal estate of Cittanova, rather than the ancient Roman civitas of Mutina. Particular attention is paid to the figure of Bishop Leodoin and to the manuscripts attributed to him in the Chapter Library, especially the famous Codex legum (O.I.2), for which a different production context is suggested, prior to its acquisition by the Church of Modena.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; Italy ; Modena ; Leodoin ; fiscal estates ; bishops’ soft power ; lay manuscripts ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Description: This volume aims to foster the dialogue between two usually distinct scholarly traditions: on the one hand, the studies revolving around cultural and political activity, as well as the didactic, theological, religious and pastoral initiatives undertaken by the Dominican Order in the urban context; on the other hand, the scholarship on the history of Florence between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, seen as a case study representative of the evolutions of late medieval communal institutions in the Italian peninsula. The essays focus on the reciprocal interactions and influences between religious and political cultures, along with those between mendicant and lay contexts.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella
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    Chapter Le signorie del Mezzogiorno aragonese attraverso i libri dei relevi (2022)
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    Description: The essay provides an overview on fiefs and seigneurial powers in the Kingdom of Naples in the Aragonese era, on the base of findings and research issues drawn on the serie Relevi kept at the Archivio di Stato of Naples. It includes discussions on demographic development and settle- ment patterns, successions, government and productive structures, the territorial vocation, the process of “monumentalization” of the seigneurie in the medieval and early-modern southern sources.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Southern Italy ; Alfonso the Magnanimous ; Camera della Sommaria ; seigneurial power
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    Chapter Il signore va alla Camera. I relevi dell’archivio della Regia Camera della Sommaria (2022)
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    Description: The essay offers an analysis of the largest concentration of records concerning the feudal lord- ship in the Kingdom of Naples from the 15th to the 17th century, the serie Relevi, kept at the Ar- chivio di Stato of Naples. The Relevi were the core of the enormous mass of records hold by the Archives of the Camera della Sommaria in Naples. These files must be considered as a whole: by tracing the creation, the evolution and the integration of the archives of the most important fiscal and financial court of the reign, the paper points out the crucial links between archivistic order, government of the state and seigneural power in the Aragonese and Spanish era.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Southern Italy ; Relevi ; Camera della Sommaria ; feudal lordship
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    Reti marittime come fattori dell’integrazione europea / Maritime Networks as a Factor in European Integration (2022)
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    Description: This wide-ranging theme takes Braudel’s concept of the “Mediterranean” as its starting point. Braudel’s vision of an enclosed sea as a geographical opportunity for economic integration between nations with different religions, languages and ethnicities and political bodies still functions as a model for studies on a wide range of contexts. The goal of the 50th Study Week was to go beyond the study of individual systems in isolation, and to combine instead different analysis of open and enclosed seas or coastal areas in order to understand the integration role played by maritime connections in Europe. Since in pre-industrial civilizations water transport was easier than land transport, the time has come to bring attention to the way these relationship networks operated both on a European level and with Asian and North African trade partners. This volume starts from the great research traditions which have, however, rarely been integrated on a larger and continental scale, and analyses them on either a regional or thematic basis. Immanuel Wallerstein has developed Braudel’s concept by conceptualising its intercultural and transnational dimensions and its role in the system of labour. He called it a "world system", not because it involves the whole world, but because it is larger than any legally defined political unit. And it is a "world economy" because the base link between the different parts of the system has an economic nature. The various regional research aspects and traditions have been linked together in a coherent approach which aims at evaluating: - What geographical, nautical, technical, economic, legal, social and cultural elements influenced the emergence of the various regional networks, and how these worked; - The nature and role of seaports as nodal points of sea routes and of their hinterland through rivers, canals and roads; - The commercial and personal ties between merchants and shipowners in various ports; - How regional networks connected with each other and how, over time, they ended up integrating into larger units; - How private networks, initially between merchant and seafarer organizations, ended up dealing with local authorities and, after their growth, with states and empires in order to protect their interests.
    Keywords: Mediterranean ; maritime networks ; Middle Ages ; modern age ; Europe ; maritime trade ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
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    Chapter La commercializzazione del vino e dell’olio in Italia settentrionale attraverso lo studio dei daziari tardomedievali (2022)
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    Description: The contribution reconstructs the wine and oil trade in Northern Italy, starting from the analysis of late medieval tariff books. The tariff books of the major cities are characterised by a wide range of wine products, which included Greek wines, but also wines traded regionally. Olive oil together with linseed oil constitutes the most important variety among cooking oils.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-15th centuries ; Northern Italy ; oil ; wine ; commecialization ; tariff books.
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    Chapter I Doria e la chiesa di San Matteo a Genova nella seconda metà del Duecento (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: The essay addresses the problem of the relationship between large aristocratic families and “noble parishes” in Genoa, by considering the case of the Doria and the church of San Matteo, founded in 1125 and whose reconstruction was planned in 1278. On the one hand, three qualifying aspects of the Doria kinship are examined in order to understand the role of the small church in enhancing the coordination of the group: i.e., positions of leadership and command in the maritime city and in its government; dispersion and presence outside Genoa; numerical strength, residence and leadership. On the other hand, the article considers the insertion of San Matteo in the monastic network (not only in Liguria) headed by the abbey of San Fruttuoso, and how its reconstruction allowed for the diversification of the large family internal and external relevance. The conclusion, thanks to the comparison with the experiences of other important urban families, shows the uniqueness of this case study and how broader and more systematic comparisons should be made, even outside the Genoese context.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th century ; Genoa ; Liguria ; San Matteo church ; San Fruttuoso abbey ; social élite ; Doria ; families ; alberghi.
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    Dalla guerra alla pace. L’Arazzo di Bayeux e la conquista normanna dell’Inghilterra (secolo XI) (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: The Bayeux Tapestry (or rather, embroidery) is one of the most famous medieval artworks, which narrates in images the conquest of England by the Normans led by Duke William the Conqueror. Images taken from the embroidery are reproduced on thousands of objects evoking the Middle Ages, and at the same time the work has been the subject of hundreds of studies in many European countries, by historians, art historians and narrative scholars. In all of this, some questions and some answers are lacking, in particular with regard to the political culture expressed in the work: there is no doubt that the embroidery is a narrative of the exploits of William the Conqueror, an attempt to reconcile the English and Normans and in part an exaltation of the role of Odo, bishop of Bayeux; but it is also the expression of a series of political ideals and models of order, a reading and an evaluation of the system of contemporary power, organized around the kingdom and based on the primacy of the aristocracy and the value of personal ties. The volume aims to follow this line of research, showing how the embroidery, from many points of view (the political ceremonial, the role of the king, the aristocratic bonds of fidelity), reflects a social imaginary and a series of clearly recognizable political ideals.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; England ; Normans ; Kingship ; Fidelity ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
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    La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 2 Archivi e poteri feudali nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIV-XVI) (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: By studying the archives of the feudal Lords of Southern Italian between the 14th-16th centuries you can understand the real nature of their power and how it was expressed. The volume, which takes into account the most recent historiography, relies on the study and inventory of important documentary collections held in the Archivio di Stato of Naples, such as the Sommaria (Relevi with the files for feudal succession; Dipendenze, I, Conti erariali dei feudi and Diversi, with the seigneurial account books acquired by the State of those lord who had been rebellious or had died without heirs). The authors deal also with the cartularies (‘platee’) of aristocratic dynasties as the Ruffo and the Sanseverino, based in Calabria, and with the parchments of the Albertini from Nola. Thanks to the rich information derived by these archival series and account books, the authors bring new light on the seigneurial powers, the typology of the records produced by and for the Lords, the administration of their estates, the strategy for elaborating the family memory.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Southern Italy ; feudal lordship ; Archives ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
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    Chapter Influences et interactions entre Santa Maria Novella et la commune de Florence. Une étude de cas: les sermons de Remigio de’ Girolami (1295-1301) (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: At the turn of the fourteenth century (1295-1301), the Florentine Dominican Remigio de’ Girolami produced a collection of essential texts connected to events in Florentine politics that present the testimony of a well-informed intellectual directly involved in the Communal crises. This article proposes to analyze, as a case study, the influence of Remigio’s five sermons on Florentine communal life. His preaching in reaction to the crises shaking Florence happened in dialogue with the institutions and citizens of the Commune. It bears witness to the interactions between Santa Maria Novella and the city of Florence and contributes to the development of the political philosophy of its time.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Convent of Santa Maria Novella ; Preaching
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    Chapter La città e il vulcano. Il comune di Como e le conseguenze dell’eruzione del Samalas (1257-1260) (2022)
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    Description: The essay examines some measures taken by the commune of Como between 1257 and 1260, relating to the maintenance of roads and rivers and the food supply of the city, reinterpreting them as timely and effective responses to the wave of bad weather caused throughout Europe by the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Samalas.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th century ; Europe ; Como ; Samalas ; communes ; climate history.
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    Chapter Lothar’s manuscripts, manuscripts for Lothar, manuscripts of Lothar’s time (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: This paper aims to give an account of some of the manuscripts related to Lothar. In its first section an attempt is made at retracing a set of books that could have belonged to Lothar’s library, nowadays known only from secondary sources. In the second section some display codices are discussed, either commissioned by Lothar, or dedicated to him, such as Lothar’s Gospel Book MS Par. lat. 266 or those traditionally referred to as the «Lothar-Gruppe», whose actual connection both to Lothar and to each other is questioned here. The third and last part of the paper contains some considerations on the manuscripts produced during the years of Lothar’s government in Italy, that essentially coincide with the second quarter of the ninth century.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; Carolingian Italy ; Verona ; Lothar ; Pacificus ; Carolingian royal libraries ; Carolingian manuscripts ; Carolingian court school ; Carolingian illumination ; Carolingian law-books ; Lothar-Gruppe ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter A fragmentary story: episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s reign? (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Dealing with episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s age (822-855), that is the age of Archbishop Angilbert II (824-859), is a difficult task, because of the lack of sources and uncertain origin of many extant manuscripts. As a matter of fact, Angilbert II shared a common cultural background with his transalpine colleagues, but he had to face the loss of the schools in Milan and to rebuild a cultural system which could also improve the political role of his see to the detriment of Pavia. This paper analyses some main features of his cultural policy: the activity of masters accustomed to the new ideas of Carolingian schools, in particular the role played by Hildemar and his library in Civate; the renewal of St. Ambrose’s cult and Angilbert’s iconographical choices on the golden altar of Sant’Ambrogio, in connection with literary activity in Milan (as for the case of bishop Mansuetus’ letter copied in Montpellier, Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire, Faculté de medicine, H 233).
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 9th century ; Milan ; Sant’Ambrogio Basilica ; Angilbert II ; Hildemar of Corbie ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter L’ordre dominicain dans le ciel du soleil. Dante Alighieri et la « viva giustizia » du Paradiso (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Description: This article analyses the dynamic role of Justice in Dante’s Comedy. As the judge of his Otherworld, Dante establishes harsh punishments for the sinners in his Inferno. Moreover, he attacks their earthly fame in a way similar to what he experienced as an exile condemned to death by his Commune. Dante also defines the lighter penitences which torture the souls of his Purgatorio. Finally, Dante’s Justice shines alive in his Paradiso, first in the sky of Mercury and then, at its apotheosis, in the sky of Jupiter, when the eagle an-wers Dante the Pilgrim’s difficult questions about the salvation of pagan souls. As the eagle points out, even the blessed souls do not know the names of all the saved ones, and this remark should invite mortals to restrain from judging their peers. A similar message seems to be at the very heart of Aquinas’ speech in the sky of the Sun.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 13th-14th Centuries ; Dominican Order ; Florence ; Dante Alighieri
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