The Rise and Decline of Italian city-states
Communes, as they became known by the thirteenth century, developed into municipal bodies engaged in local government, which depended on external seigneurial or monarchial authority for fiscal, military and trade relations and matters of high justice…
Regional fairs, institutional innovation and economic growth in late medieval Europe
Regional fairs, institutional innovation and economic growth in late medieval Europe By Stephan Epstein Economic history review, 2nd ser., 47 (1994) Synopsis: Examines…
The textile industry and the foreign cloth trade in late medieval Sicily (1300-1500): a “colonial relationship”?’
The textile industry and the foreign cloth trade in late medieval Sicily (1300-1500): a “colonial relationship”? By Stephen Epstein Journal of Medieval History,…
Were the Roman catacombs abandoned in the ninth century AD?
Were the Roman catacombs abandoned in the ninth century AD? By John Osborne Transactions of the Third Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians (University…
Leonardo da Vinci, Sculptor
In view of the ill-fated attempt of Geheimrat Bode to acquire, in the wax bust of the Flora, a real Leonardo for the Berlin Museum, writers have become more chary in attempting to assign works of sculpture to that artist.
The Rhetoric of Work in Leon Battista Alberti
The Rhetoric of Work in Leon Battista Alberti By Claudia Bertazzo Rhetorics of Work, edited by Yannis Yannitsiotis, Dimitra Lampropoulou and Carla Salvaterra (Pisa University Press, 2008)…
Notes on the Presence of Boccaccio in Cristoforo Landino’s Comento sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri
Notes on the Presence of Boccaccio in Cristoforo Landino’s Comento sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri By Simon A. Gilson Italian Culture, Vol. 23…
The Spanish plucked viola in Renaissance Italy, 1480-1530
The Spanish plucked viola in Renaissance Italy, 1480-1530 By Hiroyuki Minamino Early Music, Vol. 32:2 (2004) Synopsis: During the last two decades of the 15th century and the…
Popes and Pornocrats: Rome in the Early Middle Ages
Popes and Pornocrats: Rome in the Early Middle Ages By Lindsay Brook Foundations: The Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Vol. 1:1…
Accounting and power: evidence from the fourteenth century
Accounting systems provide not only quantitative information but they also have the potential to document the economic, social, and institutional context in which they have occurred.
The idea of paradigm in church history: the notion of papal monarchy in the thirteenth century, from Innocent III to Boniface VIII
The three works of medieval history most clearly connected with the paradigm concept are Willemien Otten,’s From Paradise to Paradigm: A Study of Twelfth- Century Humanism and the essay collections Paradigms in Medieval Thought Applications and Medieval Paradigms.