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Torrevecchia tra XII e XIV secolo
Il contributo ricostruisce le vicende legate alla formazione e successivo sviluppo di una grangia cisterciense, di proprietà dell'abbazia di Chiaravalle milanese.
Carla Sacchetti Stea
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Concepito come tappa di una ricerca sui Seggi medievali nell’Italia meridionale, il saggio esplora le forme con cui è descritto e controllato lo spazio urbano di Napoli dal X al XIV secolo, con particolare riguardo a plateae e regiones, e alle ...
Monica Santangelo
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La crisi del Trecento e la Peste Nera. Letture e prospettive
Il contributo si prefigge un duplice obiettivo. Da un lato, ripercorre, a grandi linee e senza alcuna pretesa di esaustività, i cambiamenti intervenuti nel corso del Trecento, prima e dopo la diffusione dell’epidemia di peste, alla luce del vivace ...
Luciana Petracca
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1989: THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF REVOLUTION
ABSTRACT A failed effort at “reform from above” or a dramatic reassertion of “people power”? Almost thirty‐five years on, studies of the Revolutions of 1989 continue to be framed by these two polarities. However, this historiographical focus has meant that scholars have often overlooked the actual content and character of protest itself.
MARCUS COLLA, ADÉLA GJURIČOVÁ
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In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible
Abstract We investigate the possibility that contact with Greek through the translation of biblical texts may have played a role in the development of Latin proprius ‘personal’, ‘peculiar’ into a reflexive possessive adjective. A few centuries earlier, post‐Classical Greek witnesses a similar development with the adjective ídios ‘private’, ‘personal ...
Marina Benedetti, Chiara Gianollo
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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Abstract Tracing patterns of letter interception across the Alps provides a new geography of Habsburg communications, espionage, and counter‐espionage in seventeenth‐century Europe. Using the correspondence of the Tassis family of imperial and Spanish postmasters, this article demonstrates that despite increasingly martial rhetoric, battles in ...
RACHEL MIDURA
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Abstract This article surveys the charitable and humanitarian activities of the Quaker philanthropist William Allen (1770–843), who was at the forefront of several campaigns for the relief and schooling of the poor and labouring classes in Britain and the emancipation and ‘civilisation’ of the enslaved and colonised peoples in the broader empire ...
Matilde Cazzola
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Dominium, sovranità e poteri. Note in margine a due testi di storia del pensiero politico medievale
La discussione comparata dei due compendi valorizza in particolare l’impianto didattico e la contestualizzazione storica delle fonti che offre nuove prospettive conoscitive per la storia del pensiero politico medievale.
Paolo Evangelisti
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