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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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Introduzione: fra storia umana e storia della natura
Studi di Storia Medioevale e di Diplomatica: Nuova Serie, 2022 l saggio presenta un rapido quadro storiografico sulla storiografia ambientale sul Medioevo. In particolare, si esamina il rapporto fra i dati forniti le fonti documentarie e quelle fornite dalle scienze naturali che studiano il passato ...
Paolo Grillo
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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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I nomi degli animali. L’onomastica zoologica in area lombarda tra alto e basso medioevo
Studi di Storia Medioevale e di Diplomatica: Nuova SerieL’onomastica zoologica rappresenta un campo di studio poco esplorato nell’ambito dell’antroponimia. Questo contributo analizza la funzione, la frequenza e la tipologia degli zoo-antroponimi in area lombarda tra alto e basso medioevo, evidenziando come ...
Riccardo Rao
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Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 244-273, May 2025.In c.738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria.
Peter Darby
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L’alimentazione nell’alto medioevo. Il contributo dell’Archeobotanica [PDF]
, 2016 Il contributo dell'archeobotanica nello studio della alimentazione nell’alto ...
Castelletti, Lanfredo
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2025.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between women and their garments by examining written, visual, and material sources about dress drawn from the historical records of the Malatesta family. The objective of this research is to understand whether women of this House had any degree of autonomy regarding the garments that they chose to ‘self‐
Elisa Tosi Brandi
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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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