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Teaching Aristotle’s Logic in Fifteenth-Century Constantinople

Manuscript Cultures
This paper offers the first edition and English translation of a Byzantine introduction to Aristotle’s Categories. The introduction is transmitted in two primary manuscript witnesses from the fifteenth century: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ...
Ciro Giacomelli, José Maksimczuk
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Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
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Edizioni italiane dei libros de caballerías nella Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Ciclo di Amadís de Gaula.

Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, 2007
In the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid Enrique Body Morera is carrying out the demanding task of cataloguing the Italian ancient collection. Among the various books that are classified as anonymous the compact group of fifteenth and sixteenth century books
Enrique Body Morera, Vittoria Foti
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The Commercial Significance of the Venetian Tana in the 1430s

Емінак, 2019
In the XIII – XV centuries medieval Europe has made progress in trade and transition to market economy, which resulted in the foundation of a number of Venetian and Genoese overseas colonies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea area.
Evgeny Khvalkov
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Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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Odysseus and the Cyclops: Constructing Fear in Renaissance Marriage Chest Paintings

Humanities, 2018
Recent scholarship addressing access to Homer’s epics during the Italian Renaissance has illuminated the unique importance of visual narratives for the dissemination and interpretation of material associated with the Trojan War and its heroes. This
Margaret Franklin
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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman, David González Agudo   +1 more
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Oblivion Deferred: Altichiero in the Fifteenth Century

RIHA Journal, 2013
Altichiero was the dominant north Italian painter of the later Trecento. In Padua, in the 1370s and early 1380s, he worked for patrons close to Petrarch and his circle and perhaps in direct contact with the poet himself. By the time of the second edition
Richards, John
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Innovation and the great divergence

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
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A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
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