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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.

Filed Under: Conferences, Features Tagged With: Canon Law, Christianity, Chronicles, Conferences, Crime, Early Middle Ages, Ecclesiastical History, Foundation Myth, Germany, High Middle Ages, Italy, Jacopo da Varagine, KZOO, Late Middle Ages, Law, Lucca, Münster, Religious Life, Social History, Tenth century, Tuscany, Urban Studies

The Morality of Misogyny: The Case of Rustico Filippi, Vituperator of Women

November 30, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora (Florentine, 1444/45-1497), Chaste Women in a Landscape, Probably 1480s,

At the outset of his influential study on Rabelais, Mikhail Bakhtin makes an interesting observation. The scholar dedicates several pages to detail how the French author’s critical reception changed over time. Bakhtin illustrates how the attempt to comprehend an author can frequently be stymied by the cultural changes that occur across the centuries.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Averroes, Florence, Fourteenth Century, Islam, Italy, Medieval Women, Muslims, Poetry, Rustico Filippi, Thirteenth century, Tuscany

Badia Burning: The Spectacle of Violence in 14th-century Tuscany

March 17, 2014 By Medievalists.net

The Cerchi seek vengeance - 1300 (Florence)

The theme of this paper is the use of ecclesiastical properties as sites of theatrical violence, and violence as a major element in the complex discourse between powerful rural lords and the Florentine commune.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Churches, Court Records, Ecclesiastical History, Florence, Fourteenth Century, Italy, Knights, Late Middle Ages, Law, Politics, Spectacles, Tuscany, Violence

Organized Collective Violence in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Tuscan Countryside: Some Case Studies from Central and North Eastern Tuscany

July 22, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Violence is often thought of as a characteristic of all medieval societies. How such societies chose to exercise this violence is therefore a good, and understudied, way into understanding the basic rules about how they worked. Concentrating on twelfth and thirteenth century Tuscany, my intention is to show that a specific form of violence, namely organized collective violence, was not an option available to all social groups within the medieval rural society of northern Italy…