The Lives of Umiliana de’ Cerchi: Representations of Female Sainthood in Thirteenth-Century Florence
The Lives of Umiliana de’ Cerchi: Representations of Female Sainthood in Thirteenth-Century Florence Schuchman, Anne M. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 14 (1997)…
A Pilgrim and his Journey: Illuminating Interpretations of Dante’s Commedia
A Pilgrim and his Journey: Illuminating Interpretations of Dante’s Commedia Sokolowski, Linda C. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1986) Abstract While there…
Medieval Italian Military And Defenses
Medieval Italian Military And Defenses Analysis of medieval military defenses in Tuscany and Northern Italy. Shot in 2009 in Lucca, Garfagnana, Venice, Florence,…
Absolutism in Renaissance Milan: Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329-1535
Absolutism in Renaissance Milan: Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329-1535 By Jane Black Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780199565290…
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I By Nancy Goldstone Walker & Company, 2009 ISBN: 978-0802716705 On March 15, 1348, Joanna…
Isola non isolata. Le Stinche in the Middle Ages
Isola non isolata. Le Stinche in the Middle Ages By Guy Geltner Annali di Storia di Firenze, Vol.3 (2008) Introduction: The Italian government’s Department of…
Byzantines in the Florentine polis: Ideology, Statecraft and Ritual during the Council of Florence
Byzantines in the Florentine polis: Ideology, Statecraft and Ritual during the Council of Florence By Stuart M. McManus Journal of the Oxford University…
The Borja Family: Historiography, Legend and Literature
The Borja Family: Historiography, Legend and Literature By Eulàlia Duran Catalan Historical Review, Vol.1 (2008) Abstract: The Borja family from Valencia (the Italian spelling is…
Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi
Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi Lecture by Br. Bill Short, O.F.M. Franciscan School of Theology & Graduate Union – Berkeley, CA Given…
Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean
Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean By Sharon Kinoshita and Jason Jacobs Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Vol. 37:1…
The Battle of Malta, 1283: Prelude to a Disaster
The Battle of Malta, 1283: Prelude to a Disaster By Lawrence Mott The Circle of War in the Middle Ages: Essays on Medieval…
The epic tradition of Charlemagne in Italy
The epic tradition of Charlemagne in Italy By Jane E. Everson Cahiers de recherches médiévales, Vol.12 (2005) Introduction: From the late thirteenth century to the…
When the Serenissima and the Gran Turco Made Love: The Peace Treaty of 1478
When the Serenissima and the Gran Turco Made Love: The Peace Treaty of 1478 By Diana Gilliland Wright and Pierre A. MacKay Studi Veneziani,…
The First Venetian Love Letter? The Testament of Zorzi Cernovich
This paper explores the more personal side of the Cernovich drama, but it was a drama played our against their personal background of constant political haggling, private messages, deals and betrayals, within a larger context of more important rulers and a major war.
Lucca in the Signoria of Paolo Guinigi, 1400-1430
Lucca in the Signoria of Paolo Guinigi, 1400-1430 By Ken Johnson PhD Dissertation, University of North Texas, 2002 Abstract: This study analyzes the…
Bridging Europe and Africa: Norman Sicily’s Other Kingdom
The Norman conquest of Sicily, completed by 1091, shifted the largest Mediterranean island away from the sphere of influence of the eastern Maghrib, integrating it into a new Latin Christian framework.
Visualising Urban Space: Rome’s Late Medieval Iconography from a Media Historical Perspective
Visualising Urban Space: Rome’s Late Medieval Iconography from a Media Historical Perspective By Marco Vencato Power and culture : new perspectives on spatiality in…
Venice-Babylon: Foreigners and Citizens in the Renaissance Period (14th-16th Centuries)
Venice-Babylon: Foreigners and Citizens in the Renaissance Period (14th-16th Centuries) By Ludivine-Julie Olard Imaging frontiers, contesting identities, edited by Steven G. Ellis and Lud’a…
Domestic violence in late-medieval Bologna
The aim of this paper is to suggest that married life in Renaissance Italy was much more violent than the current historiography allows.
Transition to the Renaissance: Republican Values and Ideals in Florence and Siena, 1300-1500
By the close of the fourteenth century, Siena, once an expanding medieval Italian commune, was declining almost as quickly as she had risen.
Palaces and the Street in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The relationship between the private house and the environment of public space in the Italian city underwent a fundamental reordering in the late Middle Ages.
Labor Use and Landlord Control: Sharecropping and Household Structure in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany
Labor Use and Landlord Control: Sharecropping and Household Structure in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany By Rebecca Jean Emigh The Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol.11:1 (1998)…
Viking Denmark and Early Medieval Italy: a possibility for a comparison
I think that Viking Age in Denmark and the Early Middle Ages in Italy (more or less from 800 until 1100-1200) were both a period of experimentation, with changes in economy, society and, as a consequence, in settlement pattern.
Cita Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diary of Marin Sanudo
Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diary of Marin Sanudo Edited by Patricia H. Labalme and Laura Sanguineti White; Translated by Linda L.…
Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation
Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation Edited by Katherine L. Jansen, Joanna Drell, and Frances Andrews University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 ISBN:…