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Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
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The paper focuses on an original aspect of the work of Georges Rohault de Fleury (1835-1904), who, from 1853 onwards, stayed in Pisa several times and for a long time to analyse medieval architecture and art, to which he dedicated about twenty years of ...
Francesca Giusti
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Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Marialba Pastor, Los pecados de la carne en el Nuevo Mundo. La visión española del indio americano
Reseña a: Marialba Pastor, Los pecados de la carne en el Nuevo Mundo. La visión española del indio americano.
Enrique Atilano Gutiérrez +1 more
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Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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L’importanza della letteratura consiliare, pur rilevata sporadicamente in precedenza, è stata messa in luce a partire dagli anni Cinquanta; da allora un sempre maggior numero di studi è stato dedicato a questo genere letterario.
Mario Ascheri, Paola Maffei
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The Roman presbyters and la bella scrittura Filocaliana
The long‐standing collaboration between Bishop Damasus of Rome and Furius Dionysius Filocalus has prompted extensive scholarly research over the years, thereby forging a lasting and inseparable link between them. This article does not seek to undermine that bond; rather, it demonstrates – on the basis of surviving epigraphic evidence – that Filocalus ...
Julia Borczyńska
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Reseña: Centro italiano di studi sull basso medioevo - Accademia Tudertina (2021). La sessualità nel basso medioevo. Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo. 469 pp. ISBN: 978-88-6809-332-7.
Ana E. Ortega Baún
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