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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print

open access: yesArt History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 866-895, November 2023., 2023
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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Confessional Intelligence: Early Modern Papal Diplomats and Information‐Gathering Regarding England and Poland

open access: yesHistory, 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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Constructing clandestine communities: oaths of collective secrecy and conceptual boundaries in the late antique Mediterranean

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 171-193, May 2023., 2023
This article explores fourth‐ to seventh‐century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath‐taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the ...
Michael Wuk
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‘Corps a corps’: Martyrs, Models, and Myths in Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci

open access: yesArt History, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 824-853, September 2021., 2021
This essay demonstrates that Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci (1855–56) not only illustrated a popular literary narrative, but also responded to specific Roman historic, cultural and artistic touchstones as a performance of romanità through visual literacy.
Melissa L. Gustin
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Travel, Expertise and Readers: Francesco Ottieri (1665–1742) and the Writing of Modern History

open access: yesHistory, 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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L’ultimo secolo di vita dell’ospedale di S. Maria di Campiglio

open access: yesStudi di Storia Medioevale e di Diplomatica: Nuova Serie, 2022
L’ospedale di S. Maria di Campiglio, posto sul passo tra la val Rendena e la val di Sole, è il più longevo e il meglio documentato tra gli ospedali che nacquero nella diocesi di Trento tra il XII e il XIII secolo.
Emanuele Curzel
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Mercato e moneta nella costruzione francescana dell’identità politica. Il caso catalano-aragonese

open access: yesReti Medievali Rivista, 2006
La testualità francescana di area catalano-aragonese è una fonte importante del discorso politico e della costruzione delle identità comunitarie. Tra gli aspetti più significativi emerge il discorso sul valore e la funzione della moneta.
Paolo Evangelisti
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I miracoli del parto: personaggi e rituali nelle fonti agiografiche tra XIII e XVI secolo

open access: yesReti Medievali Rivista, 2018
Ricostruire correttamente la scena del parto, così come le personalità e le azioni di coloro che assistevano la partoriente nel periodo medievale, risulta un compito difficile, non privo di ambiguità.
Alessandra Foscati
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I Gesti nelle rappresentazioni iconografiche ittite tra il XVI e il XIII secolo a.C.

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica, 2019
The analysis of gestures in the Hittite iconographic representations, characterizing Anatolia between the sixteenth and the thirteenth centuries B.C., reveals the existence of an alternative and symbolic form of communication.
Giuliana Paradiso
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Documenti reimpiegati in Puglia: le custodie per sigilli dell’archivio di S. Nicola di Bari

open access: yesStudi di Storia Medioevale e di Diplomatica: Nuova Serie
Nell’Archivio della basilica di San Nicola si conservano trentadue custodie per sigilli di lettere regie e principesche dei secoli XIII-XVI realizzate riciclando documenti pergamenacei e pagine di registri cartacei.
Corinna Drago
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