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Bishops and Their Towns

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:17:37 +0000

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

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

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:32:42 +0000

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.

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

Medievalists.net — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 23:23:01 +0000

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.

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

Medievalists.net — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:55:04 +0000

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...

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