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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Art 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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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 430-458, August 2023., 2023 The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Grigori Simeonov
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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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History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 303-327, June 2023., 2023 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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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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‘Corps a corps’: Martyrs, Models, and Myths in Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci
Art 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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Un caso d’amor fou nella società aristocratica genovese del secolo XVI
SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2012 Perché nel cuore del centro storico di Genova esiste una “piazza dell’amor perfetto”? Sullo sfondo delle tumultuose vicende politiche del secolo XVI la passione, altrettanto tumultuosa, di Tommasina Spinola, nobile genovese, per Luigi XII, Re di Francia,
Gianfranco Bettin Lattes
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Reti Medievali Rivista, 2006 Segnalazione di tesi di dottorato. Giusi Barbarotto L'immagine dei sovrani angioini di Napoli da Carlo I a Roberto (XIII-XIV secolo): propaganda e percezione della dinastia, Tesi di Dottorato di ricerca in Storia medievale, Università degli Studi di ...
Redazione Reti Medievali (a cura di)
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Geostorica sarda. Produzione letteraria nella e nelle lingue di Sardegna
Rhesis, 2017 La questione di una letteratura e di una lingua letteraria sarda comincia ad apparire nel XVI secolo, e si afferma nel secolo XVIII. L’Ottocento mostra una scissione, una schisi, all’interno dell’intellettualità sarda, che si divide fra la fedeltà ai ...
Maurizio Virdis
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