Author Archives: RMBLF

To date, scholarly attention to royal ceremony in Scotland from the Middle Ages into the early modern period has been rather haphazard, with few attempts to explore how these crucial moments for the representation of royal authority. This monograph provides … Lire la suite →

At the end of the nineteenth century, German theologians and philosophers rediscovered the Renaissance cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464). Immediately they hailed Cusanus as the first modern thinker, a brilliant German rival to the French Descartes. But since the founding … Lire la suite →

Lo sviluppo delle scritture amministrative, in ambito ecclesiastico e successivamente laico, è il segno quanto lo strumento della razionalizzazione gestionale della proprietà fondiaria e immobiliare nell’economia medievale. Lo studio analitico del primo inventario-censuario dei beni del capitolo di S. Pietro … Lire la suite →

‘Rewriting’ as the reworking of narrative material based on conscious strategies of composition plays a significant role in much of the Latin poetry of Late Antiquity. This book, resulting from the conference Riscritture poetiche nell’Occidente latino tra tarda antichità e medioevo, … Lire la suite →

La Diplomatica è la scienza che studia i documenti, in modo particolare quelli di epoca medioevale. La parola ‘Diplomatica’ non ha nulla a che vedere con la diplomazia: il termine deriva da ‘diploma’, ossia un testo scritto certificato, dal valore … Lire la suite →

Games with a medieval setting are commercially lucrative and reach a truly massive audience. Moreover, they can engage their players in a manner that is not only different, but in certain aspects, more profound than traditional literary or cinematic forms … Lire la suite →

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural philosophy blurred the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and made the impossible a preferred territory in discussions on practical reason. … Lire la suite →

As the Roman Empire in the west crumbled over the course of the fifth century, new polities, ruled by ‘barbarian’ elites, arose in Gaul, Hispania, Italy, and Africa. This political order occurred in tandem with growing fissures within Christianity, as … Lire la suite →