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Bishops and Their Towns

June 1, 2015 By Medievalists.net

City of Lucca, Italy. Image via Flickr by bongo vongo.

Another #KZOO2015 post – this one examines Bishops and Their Towns.

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A Medieval Scholasticus and Renaissance Choirmaster: A Portrait of John Hothby at Lucca

September 24, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Rome - music manuscript, 15th c. - polyphonic music

John Hothby’s career as cathedral choirmaster at Lucca is one of the longest, best documented, and most exceptional of any Northern musician active in fifteenth-century Italy.

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Healthscaping a Medieval City: Lucca’s Curia viarum and the Future of Public Health History

November 24, 2013 By Medievalists.net

The Politics of Health Reform from a Medieval Perspective

Healthscaping a Medieval City: Lucca’s Curia viarum and the Future of Public Health History G. Geltner (Department of History, University of Amsterdam) Urban History: 40, 3 (2013) Abstract In early fourteenth-century Lucca, one government organ began expanding its activities beyond the maintenance of public works to promoting public hygiene and safety, and in ways that suggest both […]