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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The essay concerns the Commitment of the University Professors within the most important local Political Institutions: the Municipality of Florence and the Tuscany Region. The chronological period examined in the first case goes from 1944 to 2019; in the first case goes from 1944 to 2019. For each election, within a brief historical-political framework, are indicated the Faculty Members who have held the position of Council members (Municipal or Regional), of Councillor or of Mayor, and the respective party to which they belong.
    Keywords: Tuscany Region ; Municipality of Florence ; Mayor ; Council member ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: The writing of county history in England experienced its first boom from the 1570s to the 1650s, during which time a series of outstanding county histories were written, including William Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, William Burton’s Description of Leicestershire and William Dugdale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire. All these works are manifestations of the phenomenon of ‘county history writing by the gentry’. County histories are primarily about local place names and famous persons, but also give accounts related to rivers, mountains, land, architecture, real estate, family clans, regional customs and histories. This essay illustrates the sociocultural phenomenon of ‘county history writing by the gentry’ in the view of the formation of the nation state, and aims to demonstrate the significance and value of the writing of county histories by gentlemen, from the perspective of the ‘community of county gentry’.
    Keywords: Early Modern England ; Gentry ; Historiography ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Voltaire is one of the few European authors of the 18th century to have dealt with Korea. In this study, we first propose to highlight, through an analysis of all of his work, the texts in which he mentioned Korea and how this country is represented there. We will then try to identify his documentary sources, and we will focus mainly on how the author created stories from historical elements. Our survey also aims to understand Voltaire’s attitude to the historical-philosophical and dramatic genres, and to better understand his conception of these two genres.
    Keywords: Voltaire ; Korea ; Historiography ; Theatre ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: French
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The essay aims at reconstructing the history of the University of Florence, from the fall of fascism on July 25th 1943 to the post-World War II period. At the center of this path lies Piero Calamandrei's Rettorato, which began in the summer of 1943 and immediately interrupted by events related to September 8th and the armistice with the Allied powers. As dean of the university, in the aftermath of the Liberation of Florence in August 1944, Calamandrei marked a significant turning point. It was a turning point that not only promptly revived teaching and research functions; but it was also able to provide for the reinstatement of teachers expelled as a result of the racial legislation and for opposition to fascism, along with the beginning of the removals of teachers most involved with the dictatorship. At the same time, in the context of a city deeply involved in the Liberation, the new constitutional order of the Republic began to be drawn; a constitutional project to which Florentine professors - such as Piero Calamandrei and Giorgio La Pira - would offer an outstanding contribution.
    Keywords: Florence ; World War II ; History of Università degli studi di Firenze ; Fall of Fascism ; Assemblea Costituente ; Piero Calamandrei ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its trope of female cross-dressing. The essay argues that the increasing association of women with the private sphere in eighteenth-century English culture is a crucial context to consider when we study the initial spread of Chinese fiction in England.
    Keywords: England ; China ; Eighteenth Century ; Fiction ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The essay reconstructs broadly The history of cultural life in Florence in the 16th-19th centuries and underlines why the system of government and power in the modern Florence had no need for a university that gave academic degrees, the training of the ruling class was done by other cultural institutions.
    Keywords: Florence’s cultural academies in modern age ; Florence’s Studio XVI-XIX Century ; The cultural policy of the Medici ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This chapter evaluates the role of photography in witnessing the modernising process in China during the late Qing period and conflicts which stemmed from it. The camera, introduced in China during the First Opium War (1839–1842), allowed Western eyes to record the establishment of trade routes and associated facilities. The photos examined here were taken immediately before and during the Russo-Japanese War. The photographs appear to have been focusing on technological developments in trade infrastructure, but they also captured the conspicuous Japanese and Russian military presence. Consequently, the photographs reveal the Western role in the “development” of China by its incorporation into global trading networks and violent conflicts fought over control of this infrastructure.
    Keywords: Photography ; China ; Russo-Japanese War ; Infrastructure ; Trade ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: Nel Novecento italiano Fosco Maraini (1912–2004) spicca per la sua forte e creativa personalità di antropologo, fotografo, viaggiatore, alpinista e scrittore. Fattore unificante di queste attività fu il concetto di alterità delle culture, così come questo era stato elaborato dall’antropologia di Boas, Kroeber e Benedict. In particolare nei suoi scritti sul passato e sul presente del Giappone è riscontrabile una visione simpatetica e fondamentalmente essenzialista delle società umane. Formatosi soprattutto sui testi dell’antropologia americana del periodo tra le due guerre, Maraini affrontò una tensione difficilmente risolvibile tra la permanenza delle componenti originarie, che definiscono ogni cultura attraverso i secoli, e l’inarrestabile processo di trasformazione interno indotto dalla modernizzazione.
    Keywords: Fosco Maraini ; Giappone ; Antropologia ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: The Ars Pharmaceutica, which teaches the way to prepare, dispense and preserve all the components of the preparation and itself in excellent condition, has accompanied the history of the Florentine University with the School of Pharmacy since the foundation of the Royal Institute of Higher Studies (1859 ) until its transformation into a University in 1924. The Pharmacy studies held in the Arcispedale di S. Maria Nuova have seen numerous teachers hold the chairs of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and have important roles in international research, but also in the management of pharmacies in the area. This contribution reviews all the transformations that have historically occurred in the pharmacy throughout 100 years of the University's history.
    Keywords: History of florentine pharmacy ; School of Pharmacy ; Medicinal chemistry ; florentine pharmaceutical Industries ; Local pharmacies ; Municipal pharmacies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 10
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Originally performed at London Hampstead Theatre on 3 December 2013, Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line dramatizes the Partition of India in two distinct nation-states after the Independence in a lush production that highlights personal conflicts and deflates the genocidal implications of the event that changed the future of the Subcontinent. The essay situates Drawing the Line in the context of Brenton’s lifelong engagement with historical theatre and reflects upon the aesthetic and political significance of the marginal role assigned to violence in the drama. It argues that the play performs a postcolonial discourse on South-Asian history, in which cosmopolitan notions of Britishness, Anglo-Indian relations, and colonial rule are interrogated through an ambiguous dramatic irony that, while deploring British ineptitude in handling the Partition process, in fact represents Partition as a colossal tangle of public and private complicities which mitigates the Raj’s responsibilities and tacitly subscribes to a consolatory determinism.
    Keywords: Howard Brenton ; Britishness ; historical theatre ; postcolonial discourse ; Partition of India ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 11
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Manuscript reports and letters written in China by the Propaganda Fide and Jesuit missionaries criss-crossed the oceans and the continents to reach Europe on ships, carts, horses, mules, and palanquins, using both European systems of transportation provided by the various East India Companies and governments, and other local public and private postal arrangements. Missionary agencies also mailed from the West robbe d’Europa («European things»), such as silver coins, foodstuff and drugs (chocolate, wine, cheese, olive oil, tobacco), medicines, galanterie (luxury items), books, devotional objects and prints. Chinese goods (tea, silk, medicines, luxury items, books) were sent in the opposite direction to please patrons in Europe. Without this multi-layered, imperfect, yet workable mailing system, the flow of information and articles fuelling early modern globalisation and, within it, the Chinese missions, would have been impossible.
    Keywords: Global Connections ; China Catholic Mission ; Propaganda Fide: Jesuits ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 12
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: This chapter takes a hanging scroll by Shiba Kōkan (1747–1818) as a starting point to explore the emotional response of individuals and communities from distant cultures and places in the face of disasters, in particular earthquakes and fires. Images of disasters, and how they were dealt with, travelled through time and space, begging the question as to what role transcultural entanglements played in these responses.
    Keywords: Shiba Kōkan ; Japan ; Emotions ; Paintings ; Edo ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: French
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  • 13
    Publication Date: 2024-05-12
    Description: Contact with Western civilisation generated an enormous amount of translation of Western writings in Japan in the second half of the 19th century. Society and culture of modern Japan were built on this great undertaking, but discrepancies between the source and target languages can create complex entanglements. It is certainly fascinating to pay attention to the very entanglements created in the process of moving from the original language to the language of translation. From this point of view, one of the most interesting examples, the subject of this essay, is the term res publica/republic and its Japanese translation kyōwa, due to their linguistic distances and intersections.
    Keywords: Res publica ; Translation ; kyowa ; Nineteenth Century ; Japan ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-05-12
    Description: The term «moral science» was used in universities and academies prior to the emergence of the expression «humanities and social sciences». However, its connection with the modern eastern Asian context has not yet been sufficiently investigated. This paper tries to fill the gap with a case study on its import and appropriation by late nineteenth-century Japan to its socio-cultural sphere, having lacked the framework of classifying the sciences into «moral» and «physical» ones. The study achieves this by examining the activities of Meirokusha, a learned society created in 1773 to promote Western studies, and the writings of one of its leading members, Yukichi Fukuzawa, who tried to understand Francis Wayland’s Elements of Moral Science (1835), a famous American textbook in his time.
    Keywords: Moral Science ; Meirokusha ; Francis Wayland ; Yukichi Fukuzawa ; Shigeki Nishimura ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 15
    Publication Date: 2024-05-12
    Description: In the last hundred years, the progress of science in its various disciplines has been prodigious and the University of Florence, in connection with international research groups, has developed excellent research. The progress achieved has favored the creation of new university courses and technological transfer with important advantages for the city and its economy. Examples of these interactions are physics and astronomy studies with the application development of new technologies, naturalistic studies with precious natural history collections, structural and biochemical studies for the development of new drugs and vaccines, the numerous applications of mathematical sciences, statistics and information technology and the development of science for the conservation of cultural heritage.
    Keywords: physical technologies ; natural history collections ; biochemistry ; mathematical sciences ; conservation science ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 16
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: After a long process, the reopening of Milanese canals has become one of the fundamental actions of the Town Plan approved in 2019. A strategic project that plans to reactivate the covered section of the Naviglio Martesana and the Cerchia Interna, reuniting Adda and Ticino rivers, and give new life to the great Renaissance project that Leonardo himself had worked on. In its methodological approach and in the specific outcome achieved, we can recognize elements of continuity with Leonardo’s thinking and contribute to a territorialist reflection on its current relevance.
    Keywords: Milan water city ; reopening Navigli ; Leonardo da Vinci ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 17
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The article analyses the morphological means used by the Slovenian dialects of Friuli in adapting loan verbs to their aspectual system in comparison to the traditional means of expressing verbal aspect in the indigenous Slavic lexicon. In relation to verbs of Slavic origin, the formation of aspectual pairs was mainly realised by means of prefixation to the base verb (thereby perfectivising it), whereas with loans from the adjacent Romance varieties (Friulian, Italian, Venetian) suffixation proves more productive (yielding imperfectivisation). The analysis is carried out on the dialect of Resia as well as those from the Torre and Natisone Valleys. Despite some differences, in all three dialects there is generally a strong tendency to integrate loan verbs into the aspectual systems of these varieties. Biaspectual verbs, on the other hand, are relatively rare except for the particular case of the verbs in -inat in Resian.
    Keywords: Slovene dialects of Friuli ; language contact ; loan verbs ; suffixation ; prefixation ; aspectual pairs ; biaspectuality ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The PN Kammalia-Tarawa in an Old Assyrian tablet seems to be the earliest reference of the deity Darawa. The Luwian background this deity is also apparent, e.g., from the plural form DDa-ra-ú-wa-an-zi or from those texts mentioned in CTH 457 and the etymological interpretation of the divine name to the Luwian verb tarāwi(ya)-. Since the early Middle Hittite period Darawa also found her way into the Hattian milieu and as a goddess connected with the family life, she is mentioned several times in festivals for a queen (CTH 646), but also in the Hittite Prayer to the Sun-goddess of the Netherworld (CTH 371) which is – in my opinion – the only Hittite texts mentioning Darawa within the “pantheon of the state”. Texts from the Hurrian and Kizzuwatnaean milieu (e.g., CTH 351) also refer several times to Darawa, but this is clearly the result of a secondary and marginal dissemination of the goddess. In conclusion one might say that Darawa from her Luwian background also came into contact with various milieus of the “Hittite pantheon”, functioning as a goddess providing good (and evil) to humans in everyday life.
    Keywords: Darawa ; Kuduili ; Festival of a Queen ; non-state religion ; Luwian-Hittite contacts ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Firenze University Press | Il Settecento portoghese e lusofono
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The second section of the volume aims to illustrate the iconographical and historical situation of the city of Macao in the 18th century, analyzing the most important volume of the same period written from a Chinese point of view and presenting a Portuguese author who lived in the Portuguese Asia of the 18th century.
    Keywords: Macao ; history ; literature ; iconography ; 18th century ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 20
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Among his hydraulic designs, Leonardo planned the construction of an artificial lake in an area east of the castle of Vinci, his native village. The project, a surprising demonstration of his perfect knowledge of places where he lived, is illustrated in three drawings found and studied by Renzo Cianchi. Today, it is particularly interesting to analyze the feasibility of Leonardo’s project, by chronologically translating it to the 21st century, namely in 2020. Based on an accurate hydrologic analysis, this paper aims at providing further insights on Leonardo’s study, focusing on the feasibility of the dam.
    Keywords: Lake of San Lorenzo ; Lake of Vinci ; Serravalle lake ; Leonardo da Vinci Lake ; Leonardo da Vinci ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 21
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Leonardo’s manuscripts contain many quotes of ‘his’ Western Alps, well-known mountains sketched, with lakes, rivers and towns, creating outstanding territorial readings. In the 19th century, he became a turning point between medieval representation techniques and the great cartographic reform of the 16th century. Leonardo’s approach to territorial drawing, his evolutionary theories on the history of the Earth, his measuring and survey instruments, his calculation of mountains altitudes can be compared to subsequent maps confirming, , with ideal overlaps, the crystal clear anticipations of the ‘Grande di Vinci’.
    Keywords: Leonardo ; Western Alps ; cartography ; applied sciences ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The topic of the Anatolian panthea in the Bronze Age deals with Hattian, Hittite, Palaean, Luwian and Hurrian gods who have been worshiped in the Kingdom of Ḫatti. In such a context, along with trying to keep a balanced and methodologically-aware approach in our original research, we realized that a multi-authored work such as the present volume, with papers written by some of the major experts of Anatolian religious history, would represent an invaluable contribution to the advancement of a complex and vast field. This collection of essays is the result of the workshop Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria, held at the University of Verona on 25th and 26th March 2022. Colleagues with different areas of expertise pertaining to the topic of Anatolian religions contributed to an extremely successful event.
    Keywords: Anatolian panthea ; Hittite religion ; theonyms ; linguistics ; State cult ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The volume aims to fit into the existing studies in Italy and Portugal on the Portuguese 18th century, however describing the 18th century from a new, inclusive (and no more separatist), point of view between Portugal, Macao (in the south of China) and Brazil. The related insight does not have the claim to completeness, but offers an overview, allowing the lector to range over three Lusitanian territories. According to this principle of completeness, the volume is divided in three chapters within which historical, iconographical and literary themes of the 18th century are illustrated. The volume higlights historical facts, literary works, also through an European view of the same period, that have marked the Portuguese, Asian and Brazilian 18th century.
    Keywords: Portugal ; Macao ; Brazil ; 18th century ; literature ; iconography ; history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 24
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: This paper aims to demonstrate that cults and cultic institutions are a crucial element for understanding the processes producing different regional outcomes after the fall of the Hittite empire. In this paper, cults are understood as normative cosmic forces defining tempo and worldview of ancient societies. Cultic institutions can be identified as physical spaces defined by purity, charged with real and symbolic value, and led by specialists whose competence is recognised by the community. Instead of being a by-product of political complexity, they are a driving force behind the power dynamics because they are perceived as such in a bottom-up perspective, but also often by main political actors in search of legitimation of their power. This paper examines the interconnections between cultic and political institutions in the territory under the Hittite empire and in the same space after the empire’s demise. We aim to distinguish between processes of resilience, reorganisation, and transformation as they occurred in particular micro-regions previously controlled by the empire, including the Upper Euphrates, South-Central Anatolia, North-Central Anatolia, Cilicia, and the Northern Levant; this will demonstrate both the importance of such a micro-regionally defined study, as well as the shared coincidence of cultic and political institutional change. It will become evident that cultic continuity coincided with the resilience of political institutions, and changes in the cultic landscape corresponded to political reorganisations or transformations in post-Hittite Anatolia and north Syria.
    Keywords: institution ; temple ; kingship ; Syro-Anatolia ; post-Hittite ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This study deals with aspectuality in Resian, a Slovene-based variety of north-eastern Italy, and the probable role of Romance influence on developments in this domain. In part, these findings are compared with the situation found with other non-Romance linguistic varieties spoken in Italy, especially Molise Slavic. The functional-semantic field of aspectuality is considered both in relation to its grammatical centre, viz. verbal aspect, and its lexical periphery. Language contact plays an important role in the almost complete transition of the Resian dual aspect system to a purely derivational opposition “imperfective : perfective”, also absorbing most of its prior morphosyntactic opposition “imperfect : aorist : perfect”. Furthermore, the special aspectual selection properties of phasal verbs and the role of aspect in the functions of modal verbs merit particular mention in this respect. In the case of lexical and periphrastic means of expression, a number of calqued progressive and prospective (imminent) periphrases, mostly calqued from Romance models, are discussed.
    Keywords: Resian ; verbal aspect ; language contact ; modality ; phasal verbs ; imminentive ; progressive ; imperfect ; aspectual periphrases ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: German
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    Firenze University Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer crossed the Mediterranean from East to West, as in previous centuries, but from West to East. Jewish, Turkish and Syrians merchants, and above all the Sublime Porte showed continued appreciation for Florentine silks. Through the analysis of the sources, every phase of such export is described in detail: the purchase of the cloths in Florence, their shipment, transport and finally the sale through Florentine correspondents in Constantinople. This flow of silks continued until the first decades of the 16th century, only to decline rapidly around the middle of the century.
    Keywords: Florence ; Levant ; Silk cloth ; Trade ; Renaissance ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Ongoing study of the pottery assemblage and its surrounding context in Area 4 at the site of Alalakh has again brought to light a phenomenon that is considered typical for the Iron Age I Levant: the construction of pits/silo installations in open areas. This phenomenon has been interpreted as a sign of ruralisation or insecure economic conditions, a possible marker for the political instability in the area during the 13th-12th centuries BCE. This article examines the similarities and differences between the examples from the Iron Age I in the ‘Amuq and contemporary sites in the Levant, and also considers later similar installations from the Iron Age II. Keeping in mind the functions usually ascribed to these structures, this study also analyses the so-called ‘Anatolian’ tradition of grain storage in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in order to address the role of these installations in understanding possible food control strategies and their possible impact in the Levant.
    Keywords: Storage system ; Late bronze ; Iron age ; 'Amuq ; Grain pits ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The spectacular finds at Göbekli Tepe and Nevali Çorı: monolithic pillars representing stylized humans decorated with a large variety of animals, are the representation of an animist cosmos, in which animals and plants being may appear as persons, capable of will. Çatal Höyük represents a stage in which gods started to be shaped: the bull represented the Storm-god (a concept which reached the Classical period), the stag the god of the wild fauna, and female figurines symbolized the Mother-goddess. In Egypt, where gods where usually represented by animals, zoomorphism presents a continuity which ended only with the introduction of Christianity. The archaeological finds from Kaneš and the Hittite texts document an extraordinary continuity: each deity was represented by an animal, portraited in the vessel with which the celebrant (the royal couple or also a priest) reached a kind of communion with the god in drinking of the same wine and eating of the same bread.
    Keywords: Animism ; Göbekli Tepe ; Hittite zoomoprhism ; meal ritual ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The purpose of the essay is to show the choices made by noble Trentino families to propose an image of themselves, through different choices and thanks to different tools: building policy, iconographic, heraldic, funeral choices.
    Keywords: XIV-XVI century ; Trentino ; noble families ; palaces ; external paintings ; family tombs ; heraldic armorials ; empire ; Habsburg ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 30
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: The short but significant experiment of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy left politically ephemeral albeit culturally surprisingly durable traces in the peninsula. Among them, epigraphy takes centre stage when discussing decrees, laws, and public documents, which are a direct expression of the rulers’ will to gain greater visibility and disseminate their voice. However, epigraphy is also crucial to knowing the names, professions, ideas, and other concepts relating to the ordinary people. This contribution aims to examine a number of issues concerning controversial Germanic names datable between the VIth and VIIth century AD, and variably assigned to Ostrogoths, Lombards, and even Carolingians characters; through the lens of these durable materials, which – ironically enough – are monuments both recording contemporary propaganda and everyday life facets, the article will also explore the graphic and epigraphic changes which occurred in Italy between the VIth-IXth centuries.
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Late Antiquity ; Ostrogoths ; Lombards ; Germanic names ; Epigraphy ; Paleography ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 31
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The Amalfi Coast is characterized by jagged mountain ridges and valleys that include streams and plunges into the sea with steep cliffs, here and there interrupted by short sandy coasts. The coastal and inland towns contribute to the beauty of the landscape, rich in historical and artistic evidence from the Middle Ages. At the same time, urban agglomerations expanded, almost unique examples of adaptation to difficult environmental conditions. The study aims to analyze the natural and anthropogenic components of the whole, today.
    Keywords: Amalfi Coast ; Road ; Valley of the mills ; cave ; Amalfi villages ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 32
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This article shows that particle verbs in Burgenland Croatian – a notable morphosyntactic phenomenon of language contact – may form aspectual pairs in a typically Slavic manner. Particle-based pairs with an indigenous base verb are formed by means of suffixation, suffix opposition, suppletion or prefixation. In the case of spatial relations, by contrast, preverbs predominate over prefixes, leading to a reduction of the old inventory of verbal compounds. Nevertheless, preverbs are only rarely obligatory in the formation of aspectual pairs. In the case of borrowings, only prefixation is productive, which might be attributed to German (and Hungarian) influence. On a par with other aspectual pairs, particle-based formations may express taxis relations (sequence, simultaneity, incidence). Language contact possibly contributed to the preservation of the Contextually Conditioned Imperfective Past also in imperfective particle verbs.
    Keywords: Particle verbs ; Burgenland Croatian ; language contact ; verbal aspect ; CCIP ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: German
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  • 33
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: The Naviglio di Ivrea (Turin) sketched in sheet 563r of the Atlantic Code, drew Leonardo’s attention when he was working as hydraulic engineer in the nearby Milan. A research on the rich documentation available in local archives led to identify techniques and materials used to build the Naviglio, often similar to those in Leonardo’s hydraulic studies and drawings, and to show both its interaction with the surrounding territories and the continuous updates in hydraulic engineering from the XV to the XIX centuries. The persisting relevance of the canal through centuries is a testament to Leonardo’s ancient intuition.
    Keywords: Leonardo ; Naviglio di Ivrea ; hydraulic engineering ; territory ; technical update ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 34
    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The aim of this paper is to analyse two ethnographic identities constructed for two barbarian peoples – the Ostrogoths and the Langobards. As I try to argue, the first identity was constructed to show that the Ostrogoths were a civilized people and a better version of the Romans, and moreover, this identity communicated that the Ostrogoths could not be called a barbaric and savage people. Theoderic the Great’s propagandists tried to present the Ostrogothic warriors as defenders of the Roman World. The second identity – constructed for the Langobards – presented them as a people who embodied the very antithesis of their main enemies c. 660: the Franks and the Romans. The origin of the Langobards and the genesis of their ethnic hallmark, i.e. the long beards, were presented as signs of distinction or limitic structures which communicated non-romanitas of this people.
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Late Antiquity ; Ostrogoths ; Langobards ; Theoderic the Great ; Origo gentis Langobardorum ; Ethnographic Identity ; Barbarians ; Civilization ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The third and last section of the volume aims to represent the Brazilian colony in the 18th century through an historical, iconographical and literary point of view, and analyzing three very important Brazilian volumes of the same period.
    Keywords: Brazil ; history ; iconography ; literature ; 18th century ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Dell’idea and Macao amore mio are the Italian translations of the two Portuguese colletions of sonnets of António Correia: Deideia and Amagao meu amor. These literary works have been translated for the first time in Italian language by Michela Graziani in this volume. The Italian translation provides the Italian reader to appreciate the poetry style of António Correia and to approach this fascinating Portuguese author of our contemporary age.
    Keywords: Amagao meu amor ;  Translation ; Italian language ; Portuguese poetry ; Sonnet collection ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 37
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Already by the Late Bronze Age, culturally distinct cults of Kubaba existed throughout the region controlled by the Hittite Empire. After the fall of the empire and the fragmentation of the political landscape of the Syro-Anatolian region, these cults persisted in local contexts, developing along their own trajectories, and thus producing hypostases of the goddess with unique roles, modes of expression, and perhaps aliases. However, these local variations did not evolve in a vacuum, but in many cases through a process of interregional and intercultural interactions. This paper will examine these processes along with the resultant expressions of local cults of Kubaba, demonstrating specific trajectories for interactions between neighboring groups, along with selective adaptations and rejections of foreign cultic concepts. Preliminary results suggest an interesting convergence between these cults and certain sociolinguistic boundaries within the region, perhaps connected to communities with shared group identities.
    Keywords: Kubaba ; Iron Age ; Religious contacts ; Syro-Anatolian cults ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This volume investigates the functional-semantic field of aspectuality in relation to the role of language contact in the development of minority languages in Italy and beyond, highlighting hitherto completely unknown parallels, e.g. contact-induced development of progressive and prospective verbal periphrases. The influences of the dominant languages surface not only in Slavic derivational verbal aspect, but also in the restructuring of morphosyntactic reflexes of aspect. Aspectuality is examined in relation to Slavic micro-languages spoken in Italy (Molise Slavic, Resian, Tersko, Nadiško), Austria (Burgenland Croatian), Germany (Upper Sorbian), Albania (Kaj-nas) and the Baltic, as well as in relation to Arbëresh, Cimbrian, Griko, Lithuanian and Macedonian.
    Keywords: aspectuality ; verbal aspect ; minority languages ; language contact ; aspectual periphrases ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 39
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: The paper aims to illustrate, especially through the results of recent archaeological studies, the articulation and forms of the centres of public power between the Gothic and the Carolingian periods, in the dialectic between the city as a seat of the institutions and their protagonists, and the countryside, which contains the production centres and controls their resources. We will consider the Italian territory, with a focus on Tuscany, and propose some comparisons with the rest of Europe. An architectural, artistic and topographical resilience emerges. It is probably the consequence of the continuity of a series of elements: the public ownership of particular urban and suburban areas and palaces, as well as of rural strategic sites; the use of languages and models of the Late Roman aristocracy, and the economic impoverishment of the early medieval rulers.
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Late Antiquity ; 5th-9th Century ; Italy ; Tuscany ; Public Power Centers ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 40
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the rural lords exercised strong control over the economic resources of the Trentino area. The essay illustrates the forms of land rent collection, and dwells in particular on the exploitation of mineral resources.
    Keywords: XIV-XV century ; rural lordships ; land rent ; seigneurial levy ; mineral resources ; timber ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 41
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The article provides a survey of aspect-tense (AT) grams in (North) Slavic and Baltic, with some account of Finnic. More recently developed grams (bound morphology and constructions) are evaluated against a deeper diachronic and larger areal backdrop in order to assess the significance of contact as a factor contributing to convergence of Slavic and Baltic varieties in the AT domain. In fact, the amount of actually converging features related to grammatical oppositions in this area is quite small; these are: (i) Prominent parallels in the strict subject- vs. object-oriented division of perfects in Slavic (mainly Belarusian) rural varieties, which must have been supported by an ancient and very stable Baltic model. (ii) Suffixation patterns of stem derivation in Aukštaitian Lithuanian resembling Slavic secondary imperfectivisation. The reasons for a generally low level of mutual influence between Baltic and Slavic are subjected to some methodological discussion.
    Keywords: (North) Slavic ; Baltic ; language contact ; areal convergence ; aspect-tense grams ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: German
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  • 42
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The riches of the Hittite tablet collections are justly famous for the great mass of information they provide about deities, cult, and religious beliefs all over the Kingdom of Hattusa. The sheer amount of available texts and the fragmented state of many of them pose nontrivial problems for any systematic study of the Hittite religion. Expanding on the digital edition of the so-called cult inventories (CTH 526-530, ca. 450 fragments) and exploiting the potential of the related database, this paper provides for the first time a quantitative analysis of the panthea of local towns in the core area of the kingdom in the Late Empire period. The study is organized in two parts. Part One sets out the methodological basis for the analysis by examining the target corpus in terms of internal consistency, discussing the appropriateness of a distinction between “state” vs. “nonstate” cults both within the perspective of the current discourse on Hittite religion and specifically with regard to its consequences for the proposed analysis, and laying out the analytical principles used in the extraction of the relevant information. Part Two presents selected sets of data, explores ways to interpret and combine them, and investigates their significance for the study of local panthea in the Late Empire. The results are twofold. On the one hand, an innovative picture of the panthea under discussion is obtained, with substantial implications for our understanding of a number of deities, their relationship to each other, and their role within the religious life of provincial communities. On the other hand, the critical scrutiny of the nature and specific traits of the data sample highlights methodological pitfalls in a purely quantitative analysis of Hittite religious texts, and proposes correctives for mitigating their impact, thereby providing a significant case study for future research.
    Keywords: Hittite religion ; ancient Anatolia ; quantitative research ; centre-periphery studies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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  • 43
    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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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: With reference to the 14th and 15th centuries, the essay analyses the specific characteristics of the rural lordships of the Val di Non and Val di Sole, territories of the Episcopal principality of Trento, particularly subject to Tyrolean influence.
    Keywords: 14th-15th centuries ; Trentino ; rural lordship ; castles ; mines ; forest resources ; Thun ; Spaur ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 45
    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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  • 46
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The paper describes a research on Leonardo da Vinci’s activity as a military architect in Piombino, Tuscany, in the early years of the 16th century. These studies use modern digital survey technologies in order to recognize if, in the remains of the town’s defensive system, there are still traces of the intervention carried out in Leonardo’s time, and integrate these data with the analysis of historical-documentary sources and the results of recent archaeological and stratigraphic analyses. The achieved results were finally compared with Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, obtaining some interesting feedback.
    Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci ; fortifications ; Renaissance ; drawings ; architectural survey ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 47
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This paper deals with the Upper Sorbian aspect categories. While the traditional inflectional opposition imperfect vs. aorist is still widely used in the standard variety, it has almost disappeared from the colloquial variety used in the Catholic area of Upper Lusatia in Eastern Germany. By contrast, the derivational opposition of perfectivity formally persists in this area but has undergone some changes which are very specific to this variety. In particular, this aspect opposition, expressed by means of prefixes and suffixes has been radically restructured, such that its functional domain has shifted from grammatical aspect to grammatical telicity. It is argued that the starting point of this change is to be sought in an identification of the Sorbian aspect-sensitive grammatical prefixes with the German prefixes which mainly express telicity in processes of word formation. Special usages dealt with in this study are, on the one hand, the expression of habituality through (formally) imperfective verbs and, surprisingly, the expression of ongoing telic processes, but also of the analytical future, by means of their perfective correlates, on the other.
    Keywords: Upper Sorbian varieties ; German ; aspect ; language contact ; grammatical telicity ; telic processes ; habituality ; future ; prefixes ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: German
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  • 48
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In his investigation of the expansion of the cult of the “deity of the night” in Anatolia and her relationship with Ištar (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 46, 259-439), J. Miller exposed the complexity of a diachronical analysis of the religious phenomenon represented by the diffusion of local “forms” or “aspects” of Ištar during the late Hittite period. However, many relevant issues concerning the role of the goddess in the Hittite dynastic pantheon, heavily influenced by Ḫurrian beliefs, and her presence in local pantheons, are still to be dealt with. As a case study, the present contribution will focus in particular on the goddess Ištar of Ḫattarina, attested together with the “Kanešite gods” Pirwa and Aškašepa in Muwatalli II’s prayer CTH 381. This unusual association may be derived from the interpretation of a local female deity traditionally defined as MUNUS.LUGAL, “queen” in Hittite local pantheons, as a form of Ištar.
    Keywords: Hittite cult ; Hittite religion ; Ištar ; Hittite pantheon ; Local cults ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 49
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The Pontine territory, located in southern Lazio, once ʽpalus pontinaʼ, has been represented over the centuries through iconographic views, cartographic drawings, literary documentation, and designed through reclamation works that allowed, over time, to dry up and anthropize the land. The two moments of representation and design of the Pontine territory are clearly reflected in Leonardo’s Cartographic view of the Pontine plain and the coast north of Terracina, of which the paper presents a critical reading.
    Keywords: Pontine marsh ; Leonardo da Vinci cartographer ; cartographic and iconographic documentation ; Cartographic view of the Pontine plain and the coast north of Terracina ; territorial representation ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 50
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Leonardo’s conception of drawing and painting as a “science”, intended as a means to know material reality, in its application to the cartographic field highlights the Master’s adoption of different criteria for selecting and arranging information content in maps. Considering some significant cases, the text highlights Leonardo’s main contributions to cartography and proposes to consider these discrepancies as the results of an investigative process, in which the permanence and mutability of objects and territorial phenomena are evaluated in close relation with the project.
    Keywords: maps ; eidotypes ; Leonardo da Vinci’s topographic drawings ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 51
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Through the contextual analysis of the occurrences of solar deities in the Kuwattalla ritual texts, we will try to sketch a portrait of these deities, focusing on their functions in the ritual process. Special attention will be paid to the combination of ritual gestures with Luwian incantations, since the latter might help to define the specificities of each member of this divine group.
    Keywords: Luwian ; Hittite ; Sun-deities ; ritual texts ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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  • 52
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The Valsugana, crossed by the river Brenta, is a perfect example of a 'road area'. The seigniorial families installed in this territory juggled between the bishop of Feltre and the prince-bishop of Trento, not without a certain amount of military pressure from the city lords of the Veneto region (Scaligeri, Carraresi). During the 15th century the authority of the Habsburgs asserted itself in Valsugana.
    Keywords: 14th-15th century ; Trentino ; rural lordship ; Valsugana ; vescovo di Feltre ; principe vescovo di Trento ; Asburgo. ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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  • 53
    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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  • 54
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The essay illustrates the progressive weakening of the figure of the prince-bishop of Trento, feudal lord of most of the holders of castle lordships in the Trentino area. During the fourteenth century and especially the fifteenth century, noble families learned to look to Vienna and Innsbruck and to participate in the Tyrolean diets. With the sole exception of Alexander of Mazovia, the Trentino prince-bishops following Niccolò da Brno were all faithful to the empire and indeed strong supporters of it.
    Keywords: XIV-XV century ; Trento ; prince-bishop ; feudal relations ; empire ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 55
    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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  • 56
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The aim of this article is to discuss a change in the expression of perfective aspect in Griko. According to Rohlfs (1977), this variety of Italo-Greek only possesses a synthetic past perfective form, thus failing to mark a distinction between the past punctual and present perfect values of the perfective. And yet, some changes in the expression of this macrocategory were already taking place at the time of Rohlfs when an originally resultative periphrastic form was beginning to be used beyond its original limits. By taking into account a wider array of sources, including both early and contemporary written attestations, as well as data collected with native speakers, we show how the regrammaticalization of this analytic construction, from resultative to present perfect marker, was already under way in the late nineteenth century and is now completed for some speakers. The article concludes with a number of reflections about the role played by contact in these developments.
    Keywords: Griko ; perfective ; perfect ; aorist ; language contact ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Macao amore mio and Dell’idea are the Italian translations of the two Portuguese colletions of sonnets of António Correia: Deideia and Amagao meu amor. These literary works have been translated for the first time in Italian language by Michela Graziani in this volume. The Italian translation provides the Italian reader to appreciate the poetry style of António Correia and to approach this fascinating Portuguese author of our contemporary age.
    Keywords: Deideia ;  Translation ; Italian language ; Portuguese poetry ; Sonnet collection ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In recent years archaeological investigation has made an important contribution for ascertaining the possible relationship between the center of the kingdom, namely the king and his capital city, and the regions at the core of the kingdom in different periods of Hittite history. The empire was not a monolithic entity but a complex web of interactions. In this frame the Hittite king emerges in his several roles. In this study I have chosen to focus on the king’s administrative role and the way in which he was present in the territory through a controlled system of land allocation.
    Keywords: Hittite king ; administration ; land ; economy ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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  • 59
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: For the Hittite religion of the “Thousand Gods of Hatti” the scholarship has identified different ways of categorization: State pantheon, Local cults, “circle” and numeric group are the most widely used categories based on several criteria, such as linguistics, geography, and cultural milieu. The present paper aims to better define the state of the question about the hierarchy within the Hittite pantheon on the one hand, and to further investigate the notion of “circle” in the Hittite religion on the other, whose analysis has raised some questions and has led to different interpretations.
    Keywords: Hittite pantheon ; Local cults ; Hierarchical pantheon ; divine groups ; divine circles ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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  • 60
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The paper aims to outline some of the strategies of aristocratic patronage in sacred spaces in the Italian peninsula. The commissioning of elaborate marble funerary monuments, the choice of location for chaplaincies or entire churches, convents and monasteries, and the choice of the religious order to which to entrust them are indicated here as keys to understanding the internal distinctions within the Italian aristocracies. In particular, a new examination of aristocratic patronage between the 14th and 16th centuries is considered a means to address a general revision of the Italian cultural hierarchies and geographies of Vasari's legacy.
    Keywords: tombs ; chapels ; aristocratic patronage ; cultural geography ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 61
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The chapter describes coordinates, steps and goals of the research work the book results from, starting in a 2019 which represented the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death and the first valuable opportunity for a revival of his powerful suggestions to today’s transdisciplinary science.
    Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci ; transdisciplinarit ; cross-fertilization ; holistic knowledge of territories ; territorialist gaze ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 62
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This paper has two main objectives, to present some essential aspectual properties of Molise Slavic in comparison with other varieties in situations of strong language contact, and to discuss the role of language contact in each of these. Besides the grammatical categories of verbal aspect in the narrow sense, we deal with several more or less grammaticalised periphrases that also express aspectual functions or whose usage, at least, is triggered under the influence of verbal aspect. As in some other Slavic languages, having preserved traces of the original dual aspect system, Molise Slavic still displays a morphosyntactic aspectual opposition expressed by means of the perfect vs. imperfect, in addition to the Slavic derivational opposition between perfective vs. imperfective. Both oppositions combine with each other. The role of Romance in the reorganisation of these categories is discussed. The most salient innovation from a formal perspective is the imminentive calqued from Italian, but combinations of full verbs with phasal and modal verbs also show Romance influence. The results of the influence of dominant varieties on Molise Slavic in the area of aspectuality are compared with the development and behaviour of corresponding phenomena in the other languages and language families presented in this volume, in particular Resian and Slavic minority languages in Austria and Germany, Italo-Albanian, Italo-Greek, Baltic, German-based varieties in Northern Italy and Macedonian-based varieties in Albania and North Macedonia.
    Keywords: Molise Slavic ; aspect ; language contact ; modality ; phasal verbs ; imminentive ; passive ; progressive ; perfect ; triangulation ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: German
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  • 63
    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The chapter offers a methodology to reconstruct the structure of the Arno course, between Empoli and the mouth, at the beginning of the 16th century. Various documentary deposits have been used: analysis of geological information, to define the palaeochannels structure; historical sources; post-Leonardian historical cartography and a stratified bibliography to create information for geo-referencing Leonardo’s documents. This is compared with Leonardo's drawings (Windsor and Madrid), ca. 1503-1504, offers an unprecedented picture of the territorial structure of the river.
    Keywords: Arno ; palaeochannels ; Leonardo da Vinci ; historical cartography ; geomorphology ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 64
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The Castelbarco family, settled since the 12th century in the 'road area' of the Val Lagarina (between Verona and Trento), the main route between Italy and northern Europe, reached its greatest authority at the beginning of the 14th century. This was followed by a splitting of the Castelbarco seigniory and a growing influence of the German Empire.
    Keywords: 14th-15th century ; Trentino ; Val Lagarina ; rural lordship ; Castelbarco ; Verona ; German empire ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 65
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: During the 19th Century, more than 2000 children of sub-Saharan origin were redeemed from slavery by missionaries and educated in Europe with the aim of sending them back to Africa as «indigenous missionaries». Yet, so far this phenomenon has found no place in historiography and collective memory. Forgotten, perhaps, or removed. The so-called «moretti» were not mere anonymous satellites, orbiting around the European missionaries. Victims of the choices of others, but also protagonists according their own choices, they were real «agents of history». This book is a first attempt to remove them from the peripheries of our narratives and to return them a place and a name. The archives show it clearly: African-Europeans are far from being just recent actors of European history.
    Keywords: «Moretti» ; Afro-Europeans ; Missions ; Slavery ; Colonialism ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 66
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This essay presents an updated edition of the Hittite document KBo 6.29+. This text is a royal edict issued by Ḫattušili III and establishes that the sanctuary of the Goddess Šaušga will be exempted from any levies. The regulations concerning this sanctuary are preceded by a long introduction where the king relates his conflict with Urḫi-Teššob. This presentation can be compared with the narrative on this event that is documented in the ‘Apology.’
    Keywords: Hittites ; Hattusili III ; Royal Decrees. ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 67
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The lack of adequate historiographical insights has cast a negative light on the role of lordship in the late medieval economy; it has traditionally been seen as an obstacle to the free expression of market forces and thus to growth. While not endorsing this dated view, neo-institutionalist models have in fact reiterated this negative judgement. This article puts forward an interpretive proposal aimed at nuancing the image of lordship as an economically regressive force and reconsidering its role in late medieval growth processes.
    Keywords: lordship ; late medieval growth ; New Institutional Economics ; economic integration ; taxation ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 68
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Between the 14th and 15th century, the kinship and consortium systems existing within the Italian aristocratic world significantly affected the way the territorial lordship in the hands of the lay lords were structured and managed by their owners, the self-representation of lordly prerogatives, but also the political action focused on lordships, both within and outside state frameworks. This is a key but little investigated theme. If at the beginning of the period the practices connected with kinship seem to be characterised by a strong dissimilarity, we can observe process of (relative) convergence, even if significant differences remain, particularly (but not only) between the north and south of the Peninsula. A key element in understanding these differences is the different strength of central power and its structures.
    Keywords: kinship ; aristocracy ; heritage ; state ; lordship ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 69
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Leonardo’s passage through Romagna in 1502 left significant traces in his graphic production, including the codex L and the celebrated map of Imola now at Windsor Castle. These records reveal his direct involvement in the political and military affairs of the region, as shown by the well-known concession letter issued to him by Cesare Borgia in 1502. The chapter presents a critical reexamination of the principal interventions to the fortifications of Cesena between 1502 and 1503, which were the focus of Leonardo’s observations during his stay when Cesare Borgia tried to transform it into the capital of his ephemeral duchy.
    Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci in Romagna ; Cesare Borgia and Leonardo da Vinci ; city walls of Cesena ; Rocca of Cesena ; military architecture ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 70
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: During Cesare Borgia’s expedition in Romagna, Leonardo da Vinci designed many public works for Cesena but it is still unclear if he worked in other cities of the region. In particular, a possible passage through Faenza should be investigated. Some scholars think that a drawing of Leonardo’s notebook L (Paris, Institut de France) could be a representation of Faenza cathedral, but this attribution is disputed. Moreover, in Faenza’s countryside there are some original castles with hexagonal, rhomboid or ogival plan. It is not clear if Leonardo knew these buildings, perhaps even before the Borgian military campaign.
    Keywords: Leonardo ; Faenza ; Romagna ; Cesare Borgia ; military architecture ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 71
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Leonardo’s multifaceted experience has often been celebrated as a key historical legacy placed in a distant past. However, an interdisciplinary investigation of Leonardo’s thought, studies and design intentionality, trying to combine art and science, has highlighted the cornerstones of an ante litteram territorialist vision. To the finished product, Leonardo always prefers the knowledge of the most intimate relationships among components of the territory, always understood as a living being, thus giving posterity an immense gallery of possibilities. Therefore, Leonardo’s complex and integrated vision is a viaticum for the project of today’s manifold territory.
    Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci ; territorialist approach ; territorial project ; interdisciplinarity ; nature and culture ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 72
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The shift between the first and second half of the twentieth century marked a watershed. It represented the “sunset of modernity” and made tradition unattainable, thereby calling into question the very survival of poetry. This collection focuses on the work of Giuseppe Ungaretti as poet, translator, and critic, which took the lead from this fracture. As the essays gathered here show, this fracture took a specific shape in Ungaretti’s work, which was reviewed in distinct ways and had a lasting impact up to the present day, alongside twentieth-century history and poetry. The book thus offers a multifaceted picture aimed at assessing albeit provisionally the later Ungaretti’s writings and his legacy for future generations of writers.
    Keywords: archives ; figurative art ; reception ; translation ; Ungaretti ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 73
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Conspiracies frustrate contemporaries, historiographers, and historians. This article explores roles, focalization, and confession in three conspiracies related to Italy, from the 6th, 4th, and 9th centuries respectively. The protagonists include Boethius, Silvanus, and Theodulf of Orléans. The main contribution is a philological and historiographical re-evaluation of Theodulf’s role in the revolt of Bernard of Italy against Louis the Pious (817/18), arguing that Theodulf advised Louis about the punishment of the conspirators. Boethius first emerges as a historico-political exemplum (though his Cons.) in Modoin’s rescriptum (Theodulf, C. 73 [820/21]).
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Late Antiquity ; Louis the Pious ; Theodulf of Orléans ; Boethius ; Receptions ; Consolation of Philosophy ; Ammianus Marcellinus ; Silvanus ; Revolt of Bernard of Italy (817) ; Confession ; Conspiracies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 74
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This article deals with morphological non-active verbal voice, which characterises reflexive, middle and passive structures in Standard Albanian and Arbëresh dialects. The data, compared to those of Italian, show that the three different strategies for the realisation of Standard Albanian and Arbëresh non-active morphology interact with the categories of mood, tense and aspect. In particular, these morphological strategies determine a perfective/ imperfective split as well as a series of restrictions which convey different interpretations associated with a stative or eventive interpretation. Particular attention is paid to the possible influence of Italian structures on the Italo-Albanian varieties in the domain of non-active voice.
    Keywords: Arbëresh ; Albanian ; non-active voice ; aspect ; tense ; morphosyntax ; language contact ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 75
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: With reference to the 14th and 15th centuries, the essay analyses the specific characteristics of the rural lordships of the Adige valley, on the border between the territory subject to the bishop-prince of Trento and the southern Tyrol.
    Keywords: 14th-15th century ; Trentino ; rural lordship ; Adige river ; Cembra Valley ; Mezzolombardo ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 76
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In a territory without large urban centres, such as the Trentino area, the relationship between lords and rural communities is crucial for the exploitation of resources, the administration of justice, the social control of unfree peasants.
    Keywords: XIV-XV century ; Trentino ; rural lordships ; rural communities ; unfree peasants ; common goods ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 77
    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: Leonardo’s maps are to be analysed not only in relation to all his works, but also in the context of the cartography between the second half of the 15th century and the early 16th century and the techniques of so-called vedutismo pittorico. The aim of the contribution is to highlight – through a series of case studies – the potential of Leonardo's maps as sources for the reconstruction of the historical landscape. The research, starting from some of the maps produced by Leonardo, focused on two of the strands that appeared to be most significant: how to georeference Leonardo’s maps in a GIS environment; topographical analysis aimed at recognising main population centres and road network.
    Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci ; cartography ; GIS ; historical landscape ; topographical analysis ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 78
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: The increase in migration movement worldwide, and the consequent growth of multi-ethnic classes in schools have impacted on the implementation of ethnic bullying, a subtype of bias-based bullying in which victims are targeted because of their ethnic background. Despite the serious consequences of this discriminatory behaviour on the actors involved, research on the role of ethnicity in bullying is still limited. Upon these considerations, the present work aims to shed light on the role of structural factors and psychological mechanisms, explaining ethnic bullying in schools among natives and students with immigrant backgrounds. Specifically, this study is composed of three distinct parts: 1) a systematic review of the association between school and classes’ ethnic diversity and bullying and victimization; 2) a cross-sectional study on the role of ethnic diversity (legal and perceived) on bullying victimization; 3) a longitudinal study on the differential impact of COVID-19 on victimization and emotional symptoms, focusing on natives and students with immigrant background. Finally, the main results of the three studies are discussed, the implications for future studies and interventions are suggested and, policy and education practices are recommended.
    Keywords: Adolescents ; Bullying Victimization ; Ethnic Diversity ; Ethnicity ; Immigrant Background ; School ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 79
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In the 14th and 15th centuries, the rural lordships of the Lodrone and da Campo families asserted themselves in the geographically complex area of the Sarca valley, open to the territory of Brescia.
    Keywords: 4th-15th century ; Trentino ; rural lordships ; Lodrone ; da Campo ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 80
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Esse-perfect in Macedonian: lexical distribution and contextual restrictions - The present article deals with the esse-perfect in Macedonian, also found in Aromanian and some Albanian dialects, which is formed with verbs of both aspects by means of the auxiliary sum ‘to be’ plus the (formally) passive participle. In contrast to previous work on this topic, our research sets out to determine the domains of usage for this construction in Macedonian, both in the standard language and its dialects, especially those on the western periphery and in linguistic enclaves surrounded by Albanian-speaking communities. In addition to personal fieldwork, three main corpora serve as a material basis for this task; see the list of sources at the end of the article. The formation of the esse-perfect is rather limited when compared with the other two perfects of Macedonian. In particular, its distribution clearly depends on lexical verb classes, with language contact accounting for less rigid restrictions and a wider usage of this construction.
    Keywords: Macedonian ; dialect corpus ; esse-perfect ; lexical distribution ; language contact ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Russian
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  • 81
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: “Roman law” could mean very different things in the Carolingian period, and refers to a great variety of legal texts. This becomes particularly visible from the abbreviated versions of Roman law that were produced and circulated since the 6th century. The paper contrasts the so-called Epitome Aegidii, a Gallic compilation based on the Breviary of the Visigothic King Alaric II, with the so-called Epitome Iuliani, a short version of the novels of the Emperor Justinian, as both abbreviated compilations were used in the regnum Italiae under the Frankish Emperor Lothar I for legislation and legal practice. Both compilations attest to different aspects of the Roman legal tradition, and to the divergent purposes of the Frankish rulers when trying to make use of Roman law. Surprisingly, we also find elements of Ostrogothic law incorporated into what was perceived of in Carolingian Italy as the manifold resources of the Roman legal tradition.
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Lothar I ; Roman Law ; Edictum Theoderici ; Capitulary Legislation ; Legal Pluralism ; Legal Manuscripts ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 82
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: The nature of the administration of sacred time in Hittite Anatolia represents a complex problem, which has received little attention until recent years. This paper provides an overview of the topic, reconsidering the Hittite religious calendar as a whole and analysing some of the main issues connected with the Hittite calendrical system, such as the problem of the beginning of the year, the lunar nature of the Hittite month and the alleged existence of a system of intercalation.
    Keywords: Hittite Religion ; Cult calendar ; Hittite seasonal festivals ; Sacred time ; Lunar cycle ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 83
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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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  • 84
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: Leonardo da Vinci surveys and sketches the city of Milan on f. 184v (c. 1493) and f. 199 (c. 1510) of the Codex Atlanticus and on f. 114r of the Codex Windsor (c. 1510). These drawings also include some projects for Milan’s urban transformation. The paper describes how strongly Leonardo’s idea of the city differs from the Milan of Ludovico Sforza (1494-1499) and that of the French rulers’ fortification projects of 1520-1521, in particular for what concerns the revision of the external border of the city.
    Keywords: Milan ; Leonardo da Vinci ; fortifications ; urban form ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 85
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The “Sun-goddess of the earth” and the less clearly defined category of “chthonic solar deities” of Hittite religion have been the objects of various studies in recent years. This paper aims to examine the significance of these categories of deities within the Hittite festival texts. Although the Sun-goddess of the earth achieves some prominence in local cult contexts, such as at Zippalanda and Nerik, she otherwise remains a marginal deity. This contrasts with her general significance in Hittite magical rituals. The chthonic solar deities represent a less tangible deity type that is associated with death and the netherworld, but that also does not attain overarching significance in the Hittite state pantheon. Finally, the paper addresses the question, to what cultural milieu can we trace the beginnings of the Sun-goddess of the earth? Efforts to identify her origins in the Hattian milieu of north-central Anatolia will be critiqued, favoring the Luwian milieu instead as the most likely from which the tradition of the Sun-goddess emerged, and later flourished in the magical traditions especially that became widespread in Hittite society of Late Bronze Age Anatolia.
    Keywords: Hittite religion ; Anatolian religion ; chthonic deities ; solar deities ; festivals ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 86
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In recent years, several studies have focused on the interpretation and possible function of the so-called Hittite landscape monuments. For many of these monuments, a connection with the sphere of religion and cultic celebration has been suggested, especially taking into account the possible sanctity of their location, often connected to mountains, rocky outcrops, and water. The landscape monuments would in this sense represent a form of immaterial appropriation of the landscape by the Hittite king, the elites, or, in some cases, local rulers, and would play a specific role in the transmission of messages aimed at consolidating identity and/or spreading consensus. This contribution aims to provide further elements of discussion on the subject, and particularly on the use of landscape monuments as the scene of public events, through a (re)examination of some characteristics of the so-called sacred pool of Eflatunpınar, its possible connection with cult celebrations, and the identity of the ruler that sponsored its construction.
    Keywords: Hittite monuments ; Eflatunpınar ; purulli ; Tutḫaliya IV ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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  • 87
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The use of 3D modelling in practices of valorisation and dissemination of historic-architectural knowledge and restoration is now consolidated. Virtual models must, however, match principles of scientific rigour, comprehensibility and evaluability by the users, as stated in the London Charter and in the Seville Principles. This paper aims at presenting the methodology used in the virtual reconstruction of some drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, developed to ensure the correct dissemination of the historical contents delivered through the drafting of a ‘traceability card’ compliant with the international Charters principles.
    Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci ; ideal city ; “polita stalla” ; 3D modelling ; London Charter ; Seville Principles ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 88
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: The vision related to the territorial project of the navigable canal, which was supposed to connect the cities of Florence, Prato and Pistoia and, passing through the Nievole Valley, reach the Arno and then the sea, stems from the study of some drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, dating from around 1503-1504. The article retraces the reading of the various signs found, in which there appears to be a mixture between the dimension of cartographic survey and the project idea, in a dialectic between territorial potential and criticalities, according to the multidisciplinary approach to territorial science that was explored by Leonardo.
    Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci ; territorial science ; multidisciplinary approach ; navigable canal ; Leonardo’s cartography ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The first section of the volume aims to describe the Portuguese society of the 18th century through European travel reports, iconographical representations of the city of Lisbon and the cultural ferment through some of the most important Portuguese literary figures of the 18th century.
    Keywords: Portugal ; Lisbon ; travel reports ; cultural ferment ; iconography ; 18th century ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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  • 90
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: The research on the influence of the memory of the Goths and Theoderic on Carolingian rule, particularly in Italy, is just beginning. The first promising results, presented in the volume, on the knowledge of the Variae and Theoderic’s Edict in the Carolingian and post-Carolingian period are highlighted, as well as the possible developments of comparative research on the origines gentium or on the various histories that circulated in the writings of the authors of the Carolingian period. Finally, bearing in mind the role of cultural mediator played by Paul the Deacon, the importance of the Lombard phase in the transmission of the memory of Ostrogothic rule to the Carolingians emerged, through a parallel between the actions of Aistulf and Charlemagne.
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Carolingian Italy ; Cassiodorus’ Variae ; Late Roman Laws ; Ostrogothic Memory ; Lombard Heritage ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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  • 91
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Verbal aspect in the Macedonian dialect of Boboshtica-Drenova and Albanian-Slavic language contact - Long-term subdominant bilingualism with Albanian has had a significant impact on verbal aspect marking in the Macedonian dialect of Boboshtica-Drenova (South-East Albania). The Slavic formal opposition of perfective and imperfective aspect marked through a variety of derivational methods has been preserved. However, under Albanian influence two continuous aspect con­structions have been grammaticalised in the dialect, one of them based on the locative ǵe, and the other on the adversative conjunction toko. The paths of grammaticalization of these markers are investigated, which include structural transfer (ǵe 〈 locative and temporal tek, toko 〈 adversative and continuous po), which is partially supported by the phonetic similarity between the respective Albanian and Macedonian dialectal markers (toko || duke, tek).
    Keywords: Balkan linguistics ; language contact ; Slavic dialects of Albania ; south-eastern Macedonian dialects ; verbal aspect ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Russian
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  • 92
    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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  • 93
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The purpose of this paper is to update the study and analysis of the administration of Karkemish during the final phase of the Hittite kingdom. The first introductory part outlines previous contributions and results. The second part presents the updated lists of princes and officials belonging to the court of Karkemish. The third part attempts to place princes and officials in chronological order (according to the different periods of reigns). Lastly, the fourth part provides an in-depth prosopographic analysis regarding some important or interesting officials.
    Keywords: Karkemish ; princes ; officials ; Late Bronze Age ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The historical vicissitudes of the stately Trentino and Tyrolean archives are extremely complex. Archives have long been preserved in castles and aristocratic homes (and in some cases still are); until the end of the 19th century they underwent manipulations, transfers, splits linked to the functioning of the aristocratic society of the Habsburg empire, with the transfer of funds also to distant territories (Czech Republic, Bavaria, etc.). Only recently have the provincial archives of Bolzano and Trento become the most significant place for preserving the memory of the Trentino aristocracy.
    Keywords: XIV-XVI century ; Trentino ; lordships ; aristocratic archives ; inventories ; accounting registers ; notaries ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Astrology and meteorology have always had great importance for agriculture and navigation. They are described some measuring and forecasting instruments which, in the past, had a moderate success to navigate the Mediterranean, but they were forgotten because they were supplanted by other more reliable instruments in oceans. We refer to: parapegma, (made when meteorology was still a particular aspect of astrology); a calculator for determining the position of stars; instruments to establish position of a ship with respect to the Sun or the North Pole and to determine ships direction and speed
    Keywords: Nautical astronomical instruments ; Parapegma ; History of Technology ; Mediterranean sailing ; Meteorological Instruments ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In the 14th and 15th centuries the Counts of Arco, settled immediately north of Lake Garda, played an important 'hinge function', linking politically now with the powers of the strong Italian cities. The Counts of Arco had close cultural and political relations especially with Brescia and Verona.
    Keywords: 14th-15th century ; Trentino ; rural lordship ; D'Arco ; Lake Garda ; Po Valley ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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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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    Publication Date: 2024-04-16
    Description: Leonardo’s interest in Vitruvian machinatio, subservient to the needs of military architecture, starts with the return of the Sienese tradition involving mechanisms used both in civil and military fields. Whilst Martini’s influence on his military studies is partly known, very little is as yet known about the extent to which they were influenced by direct observation of fortified cities. This study analyses some drawings in which the Master achieves a perfect synthesis of art and science, harmonizing together the natural features of a territory and the technical aspects necessary to forge military strategies.
    Keywords: military architecture ; fortifications ; machinatio ; Biblioteca Reale di Torino ; cartographic representations ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The purpose of the essay is to illustrate the role of territorial ecclesiastical institutions in the organization of the Trentino lordships of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From a de facto hegemony and control, sometimes exercised by force, we generally pass to forms of patronage endorsed by the bishop, especially between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. There are also chapels located inside the castle.
    Keywords: XIV-XV Century ; Trentino ; rural lordships ; parish churches ; chapels ; patronage and right of presentation ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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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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