Before the Welfare State: the City and Welfare in the Veneto, 13th to 15th Centuries
From the 12th century on parts of northern and central Italy developed welfare systems that would characterize social life during the age of the Communes and throughout the following centuries.
Reading Theology to the Brothers: The Background to St. Anthony’s Opus Dominicale
Reading Theology to the Brothers: The Background to St. Anthony’s Opus Dominicale By Paul Spilsbury Commercium: An Electronic Journal of Franciscan Studies, Vol. 1 (2008)…
Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries By Fabrizio Titone Brepols, 2009 ISBN: 978-2-503-52757-4 The volume examines urban…
Migrant Society to Island Nation: Sicily
Migrant Society to Island Nation: Sicily By Charles Dalli Immigration and emigration in historical perspective, edited by Ann Katherine Isaacs (Pisa University Press, 2007)…
Exile as evidence of civic identity in Florence in the time of Dante: some examples
Exile as evidence of civic identity in Florence in the time of Dante: some examples By Fabrizio Ricciardelli Reti Medievali – Rivista, Vol, 5…
The development of the Florentine silk industry: a positive response to the crisis of the fourteenth century
When we talk about the ‘crisis of the fourteenth century’, we are generally referring to a series of phenomena that have almost always been viewed as negative, especially when attention has focused on the evolution of the European economy
The Music of Dante’s Purgatorio
The Music of Dante’s Purgatorio By Mimi Stillman Hortulus: The Online Community for Graduate Students in Medieval Studies, Vol. 1 (2005) Abstract: Dante’s Inferno guides the reader…
Presenting and Discussing Pietro Perugino, Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter: A Suggested Approach
Presenting and Discussing Pietro Perugino, Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter: A Suggested Approach By Pamela Trimpe Art in Context: 2006–2007 Professional…
Rethinking the Role of the Condottieri on the Bloodless and Bloody Battlefields of Renaissance
Rethinking the Role of the Condottieri on the Bloodless and Bloody Battlefields of Renaissance By Tony M. Kennedy Published online by the University…
Fiduciary Media and Banking in Medieval Venice Revisited
Fiduciary Media and Banking in Medieval Venice Revisited By Richard C B Johnsson Mises Institute Working Papers (2002) Abstract: At the center of the trade…
The Basilica of St Francis of Assisi
The Basilica of St Francis of Assisi By David Clover Paper given at Stanford University on October 21, 2004 Introduction: On September 4, 1997 a…
Changing Layers of Jurisdiction. Northern and Central Italian States in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Changing Layers of Jurisdiction. Northern and Central Italian States in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times By Ann Katherine Isaacs Communities in…
Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food By John Dickie Free Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-7432-7799-0 From the bustle of medieval…
Labour, Productivity, Wages in Italy, 1270-1913
Labour, Productivity, Wages in Italy, 1270-1913 By Paolo Malanima Paper given at Towards a Global History of Prices and Wages (2004) Introduction: Despite…
From Islam to Christianity: the Case of Sicily
The history of high medieval Sicily bears all the hallmarks of a regional crossroads which, between the 9th and 11th centuries, exchanged hands between three major civilizations.
Social History and Computer: The Construction Yard of the Cathedral of Orvieto between the 14th and the 15th Century
Social History and Computer: The Construction Yard of the Cathedral of Orvieto between the 14th and the 15th Century By Lucio Riccetti Historical Social…
Thou Shalt Not: The Mitigation of Adultery and Its Implications in Dante’s Inferno and Boccaccio’s Decameron
Thou Shalt Not: The Mitigation of Adultery and Its Implications in Dante’s Inferno and Boccaccio’s Decameron By Benjamin Cox Published Online (2003) Introduction:…
The Use of History in Late Medieval Guidebooks to Rome
The Use of History in Late Medieval Guidebooks to Rome By Timo Saastamoinen XIV International Economic History Congress (2006) Introduction: As people consider…
A New Deal: Bruges Burghers and Venetian Merchants Invent Mercantile Gambling
A New Deal: Bruges Burghers and Venetian Merchants Invent Mercantile Gambling By David G. Schwartz XIV International Economic History Congress (2006) Introduction: Today,…
Building a city. Spaces and real estate dynamics in Rome in the XV century
Building a city. Spaces and real estate dynamics in Rome in the XV century By Donatella Strangio XIV International Economic History Congress (2006)…
Citizenship in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Cities
Citizenship in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Cities By Anna Maria Pult Quaglia Citizenship in Historical Perspective, edited by Steven G. Ellis, Guðmundur Hálfdanarson and Ann…
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
Burckhardt in his book Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1860). In this lecture I want to review some of the many directions taken by Renaissance studies since then, and to make some suggestions for future work.
The Impact of Religious Orders on Political Change in Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe (13th-15th centuries)
The Impact of Religious Orders on Political Change in Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe (13th-15th centuries) By Raphaela Averkorn Religion and Political Change in Europe:…