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The fall of Merovingian Italy, 561–5
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 543-562, November 2023., 2023 After the end of the Gothic War in the mid‐sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between the Merovingian Franks and the eastern Roman Empire. In the 560s the Frankish territories were finally taken by imperial armies, but the end of Merovingian Italy is variably dated between 561 and 565.
Sihong Lin
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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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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 243-273, June 2023., 2023 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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History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 282-302, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay examines the information‐gathering practices of papal nuncios and legates to argue that they performed much of the same intelligence work, and in a similar manner, as other diplomatic agents in the early modern Europe. It focuses in particular on papal diplomats’ efforts to gather information regarding two areas that proved ...
CHARLES R. KEENAN
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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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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 222-251, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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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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Travel, Expertise and Readers: Francesco Ottieri (1665–1742) and the Writing of Modern History
History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 384-408, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This article analyses Francesco Ottieri's historical work, his authority as historian, and his book's eighteenth‐century readers. During the seventeenth century, books concerning recent events and early newspapers informed an expanding European readership.
Guido G. Beduschi
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Reti Medievali Rivista, 2005 Recensione ad ALIM, Archivio della latinità italiana del Medioevo
Luigi Russo
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Reti Medievali Rivista, 2012 Agli inizi del secolo XI, la chiesa di S. Clemente in Roma, risalente al secolo V, venne “seppellita” in una basilica completamente nuova. Inspirato dagli interventi di Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (1998) e di Valentino Pace (2007), questo articolo ...
Lila Yawn
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