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Labour, Productivity, Wages in Italy, 1270-1913
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From Islam to Christianity: the Case of Sicily
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Social History and Computer: The Construction Yard of the Cathedral of Orvieto between the 14th and the 15th Century
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Thou Shalt Not: The Mitigation of Adultery and Its Implications in Dante’s Inferno and Boccaccio’s Decameron
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The Use of History in Late Medieval Guidebooks to Rome
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A New Deal: Bruges Burghers and Venetian Merchants Invent Mercantile Gambling
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Building a city. Spaces and real estate dynamics in Rome in the XV century
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Citizenship in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Cities
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The Garden of St. Francis: Plants, Landscape, and Economy in Thirteenth-Century Italy
Popularly associated with the environmental movement, St. Francis (ca. 1182–1226) has long been figured as having an intense devotion to nature
The Idea of the Renaissance, Revisited
The idea of the Renaissance as a historical period was first formulated by Jacob
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The Impact of Religious Orders on Political Change in Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe (13th-15th centuries)
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Religion, Women and Politics in Imperial Rome (4th-5th century A.D.)
The aim of this study is to look at the close relations and certain continuity existing between the pagan and Christian ideologies concerning the role played by women of the aristocracy and by the image of women associated with political power.
Pisa in the Middle Ages: The Dream and the Reality of Empire
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Welfare in an Italian City-State: Siena and the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala
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Local and Regional Identity in Medieval Tuscia
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Defining the gentleman and the gentlewoman in the Italian Renaissance
Here I wish to discuss the way the figures of the gentleman and the gentlewoman developed in European culture during the Renaissance.
A New Source for Andrea del Castagno’s Vision of St. Jerome
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Theological and Polemical Uses of Hagiography: A Consideration of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major of St. Francis
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The Republican Idea
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Peter Martyr: The Inquisitor as Saint
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The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
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The Medieval Prison: A Social History
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