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History, Volume 108, Issue 382, Page 365-387, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article analyses some examples of historical narratives that, long before the emergence of so‐called postmodern history, had a specific narrative character: the reconstructions of ‘missed revolutions’ taking into account a possible alternative history and tracing back the reasons for a social, political, and economic crisis to an ...
PATRICIA CHIANTERA‐STUTTE
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Spelling correctness as a witness of changing documentary culture in Tuscia (eighth–ninth centuries)
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 220-251, May 2023., 2023 This paper discusses the evolution of documentary culture in early medieval Tuscia by quantitatively examining the Latin spelling of charter scribes in relation to the following factors: time, the distinction between the formulaic and non‐formulaic parts of the document, the scribe’s domicile, the scribe’s professional status, and the document type ...
Timo Korkiakangas
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023 Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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Female Representation and Violence in the Ceremonial Entries of the Italian Wars
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 5, Page 750-768, November 2022., 2022 Abstract This essay considers the gendered implications of female representation in the ceremonial entries of the Italian Wars (1494–1559) in light of the events' hyper‐masculine martial context. It takes a holistic approach, uncommon in entry scholarship, by considering the thematic intersections between entry decorations, participation, performance ...
Elizabeth Reid
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 358-376, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The fifteenth‐century Italian humanists applied their ideas on translation and textual scholarship not only to classical texts, but also to Scripture. One problem they encountered was the rendering of biblical passages in their patristic translations.
Annet den Haan
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A Donatello for Rome, a Memling for Florence. The maritime transports of the Sermattei of Florence†
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 658-674, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This article deals with the maritime transports of a little known but not unimportant Florentine merchant family. On the basis of previously unknown archival source material, we address questions of family history, mercantile networks, maritime trade connections, and merchandise (including some famous artworks), shedding new light not only on ...
Tobias Daniels, Arnold Esch
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Women on top: Coital positions and gender hierarchies in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 638-657, September 2021., 2021 Abstract According to Christian theology, the ‘missionary’ position was the only proper way to have sex. Among clerical as well as secular authors, one of the most serious deviations from this prescription was the position with the woman on top of the man.
Marlisa Den Hartog
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History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 356-383, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explores the vocabularies of Amerindian languages published as part of the travel accounts written by explorers, traders and colonial policymakers in North America over the eighteenth century. Starting with the renowned Voyages by the Baron de Lahontan, the analysis takes as its endpoint the journals of the famous expedition led ...
Giulia Iannuzzi
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Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and ghettoization. A trial in Ancona as a case study (1555-1563) [PDF]
, 2019 Based on the analysis of a case study from Ancona, this article proposes to reread the beginning of the ghettoization in the Papal States (1555) within both the Western Sephardic Diasporas and the so-long Italian Wars (1494-1555).
DI NEPI, Serena
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, 2023 Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 153-165, April 2023.
Kate De Rycker, William T. Rossiter
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