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Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of
Roy Flechner
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A polyptych in the margins: accounting notes from early tenth‐century Laon
This paper provides the first edition and thorough examination of marginal notes added to a ninth‐century Carolingian manuscript (Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 424). A detailed paleographic, codicological, linguistic, and historical analysis of these additions allows us not only to trace their provenance to the early tenth‐century see of Laon but ...
Ildar Garipzanov
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Libro e scrittura in Toscana al tempo di Dante: valutazione dei dati della catalogazione Codex
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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Paesaggi e sistemi insediativi medievali: un approccio interdisciplinare della ricerca
The contribution aims to offer a methodological approach to the investigation of medieval landscapes. Particular attention is devoted to different types of sources (written and material), to their respective information potential and to their cross-use ...
Paola Galetti
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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Il pane e il sale. La coena Domini e il pensiero dell’alto medioevo (secc. V-XI), in L’alimentazione nell’Alto Medioevo: pratiche, simboli, ideologie, LXIII Settimana di studio della Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo (Spoleto, 9-14 ...
D'ONOFRIO, Giulio
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L’altro fra noi: incontro e scontro, opposizione e integrazione nelle opere di Giraldo Cambrense
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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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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Il presente articolo costituisce una disamina delle principali teorie teologiche e filosofico-politiche sul diritto di resistenza al tiranno e sul tirannicidio durante il medioevo.
Ciro Tammaro Professore
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Musicianship and the masteries of the stars: music and musicians in the Liber Nativitatum
Abstract This article shines a light on the musical contents of a “book of births”, the Liber Nativitatum or Albubather, written by the Persian Astrologer Abu Bakr al‐Hassan ibn al‐Khasib in the ninth century, translated into Latin at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and published in Venice in 1501.
Oliver Doyle
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