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Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and ghettoization. A trial in Ancona as a case study (1555-1563) [PDF]
, 2019 Based on the analysis of a case study from Ancona, this article proposes to reread the beginning of the ghettoization in the Papal States (1555) within both the Western Sephardic Diasporas and the so-long Italian Wars (1494-1555).
DI NEPI, Serena
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Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani +2 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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With One\u27s Own Arms: Condottieri, Machiavelli, and the Rise of the Florentine Militia
, 2014 This paper examines the use of mercenary warfare on the Italian peninsula during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. It later focuses on the unique political and economic environment in Florence that led to Niccolo Machiavelli orchestrating the ...
Boncardo, Michael N.
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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Mussolini\u27s Gladius: The Double-Edged Sword of Antiquity in Fascist Italy
, 2016 Mussolini and the Fascist Party used a plethora of propaganda techniques in order to suggest the renewal of the old Roman Empire with the rise of the Italian Fascist Party. Through the use of ideology, race issues, religion, educational control, posters,
Schrader, Kyle W.
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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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Menorah Review (No. 14, Fall, 1988) [PDF]
, 1988 Unfamiliar Dimensions of the Holocaust -- Two Giants of the Zionist Enterprise -- Muslim and Jew -- The Documentary Hypothesis Revisited -- Book ...
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"The Butcher's Bill": Using the Schoenberg Database to Reverse-Engineer Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books from Constituent Fragments [PDF]
, 2016 Medieval manuscripts are perishable objects. Whether they have degraded over time through constant use and exposure to the elements or been deliberately cut up to be reused in other fashions or sold on the collectors’ market, the fragments produced by ...
Gwara, Scott, Johnson, Eric J.
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