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Cultura greca e Umanesimo a Gerace: Atanasio Calceopulo e Aurelio Bienato

CESURA, 2023
Il contributo si focalizza sulla vita culturale della città Gerace, in Calabria meridionale, nel XV secolo, alla luce della biografia del suo vescovo, l’umanista greco Atanasio Calceopulo (1408 ca.-1497), redatta alla fine del Cinquecento dal prelato ...
Jessica Ottobre
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Costruire la memoria dei Luoghi Santi

Reti Medievali Rivista, 2022
Il contributo esamina il volume di Michele Campopiano dedicato alla memoria culturale dei Luoghi Santi, richiamando in particolare l’attenzione sulle implicazioni dell’uso sempre più frequente nel XV secolo, nelle scritture palestinografiche, delle ...
Laura Minervini
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From Hell to Hell: Central Africans and Catholic Visual Catechesis in the Early Modern Atlantic Slave Trade

Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023
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, Cécile Fromont   +1 more
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La cattedrale e la città: il cantiere del Duomo di Siena. Risultati delle indagini archeologiche

Arqueología de la Arquitectura, 2009
[it] Il contributo tratta degli studi condotti nell’ultimo decennio all’interno della cattedrale di Siena. Le indagini geologiche condotte nella collina del Duomo e lo scavo stratigrafico svolto in alcuni locali situati sotto il coro e il transetto della
Marie Ange Causarano
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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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Scritture e potere. Pratiche documentarie e forme di governo nell’Italia tardomedievale (XIV-XV secolo)

Reti Medievali Rivista, 2008
Scritture e potere. Pratiche documentarie e forme di governo nell’Italia tardomedievale (XIV-XV secolo).
Isabella Lazzarini (a cura di)
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Constructing clandestine communities: oaths of collective secrecy and conceptual boundaries in the late antique Mediterranean

Early 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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Balance historiográfico del emirato Nazarí de Granada (siglos XIII-XV) desde los estudios sobre al-Andalus: instituciones, sociedad y economía

Reti Medievali Rivista, 2008
Bilancio storiografico dell'emirato Nazari di Granada (XIII-XV secolo) dagli studi sull'Andalusia: istituzioni, società, economia.
Antonio Peláez Rovira
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)

Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 42-58, March 2022., 2022
Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies
Xavier Andreu‐Miralles
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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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