Author Archives: RMBLF

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 →

Maïmonide a marqué de sa présence emblématique les trois cultures, arabes, juives et chrétiennes, qui ont cohabité en al‑Andalus il y a près d’un millénaire. Tout au long d’une vie d’exil forcé, il a étendu l’influence de son intellect dans … Lire la suite →

Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine … Lire la suite →

French came into contact with many other languages in the Middle Ages: not just English, Italian and Latin, but also Arabic, Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, Irish, Occitan, Sicilian, Spanish and Welsh. Its movement was impelled by trade, pilgrimage, crusade, migration, … Lire la suite →

The essays collected in this volume are dedicated to the pragmatic dimension of the writing of history in 12th-century Italy. All the contributions can be read by following a few guiding questions: why and by whom were chronicles written? In … Lire la suite →

In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that … Lire la suite →