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Got alt hui. Some Considerations on the German Dialogue Between Massimiliano Sforza and Maximilian I in the Liber Iesus (Milan, Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. Triv. 2163)☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.
Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Introduzione

Doctor Virtualis
Il Quaderno n. 21 si propone di indagare il rapporto fra storia e medioevo da due versanti complementari: la concezione della storia nel medioevo e la concezione della storia sul medioevo. Storia e Medioevo. Risulta evidente che le due prospettive riman­
Francesca Forte, Marco Rossini, Amalia Salvestrini   +2 more
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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 497-521, November 2025.
This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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Commemorating Festive Performances in Popular Print in Sixteenth‐Century Italy☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 632-657, November 2025.
Abstract The aim of this article is to show that the popular print sold and distributed during and after festive events, such as Carnival, had an impact on the commemoration and shaping of festive culture in early modern Italy. That is, the mass medium of print that had begun to shape European cultures, especially in Italy where Venice was one of ...
Rozanne Versendaal
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The Fashioning of the Humanist Governor at the Dawn of a New Political and Cultural Era: Francesco Barbaro as Podestà of Venetian Vicenza

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.
Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Libro e scrittura in Toscana al tempo di Dante: valutazione dei dati della catalogazione Codex

Codex Studies, 2018
The contribution intends to exploit the results of the CODEX Project, which in nearly twenty years of activity has cataloged about 5000 medieval manuscripts, covering the entire area of Tuscany (with the exception of Florence).
Gabriella Pomaro
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L’altro fra noi: incontro e scontro, opposizione e integrazione nelle opere di Giraldo Cambrense

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Nella Topographia Hibernica e nell’Expugnatio Hibernica, Giraldo Cambrense esplora l’incontro/scontro culturale e militare tra inglesi e irlandesi. Se da un lato, descrive il popolo irlandese come barbaro e selvaggio, dall’altro, delinea un progetto di ...
Michael Bertini
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Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 367-390, August 2025.
Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
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