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Beatrice’s Last Smile is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteenth. The reader travels from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from the Nile to the … Lire la suite →

De 875 aux années 960, le royaume d’Italie a vécu un temps d’histoire politique tourmentée, qui l’a vu passer de la fin du régime carolingien mis en place après la conquête de 774 aux dépens du roi des Lombards Didier … Lire la suite →

In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ʿAbbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between … Lire la suite →

The landscape around us is largely the result of man-made transformations. It consists of villages, farmsteads, cities, fields, ditches, and roads. This book examines how the landscape of the Mediterranean country of Catalonia was created and transformed. Although Catalonia’s history … Lire la suite →

This volume offers a substantial and versatile contribution to the history and culture of the late-medieval Carthusians in England. The nine essays presented here focus primarily on the double charterhouses built on the outskirts of London, at Smithfield and Sheen. … Lire la suite →

Une enquête sur la gabelle du sel dans la vallée du Rhône au temps de Louis IX (Arch. nat., JJ 267)Au mois de septembre 1263, une enquête est lancée dans la sénéchaussée de Beaucaire sur les rives et les usages … Lire la suite →

In many countries in Northern and Eastern Europe, the period after 1000 saw the emergence of new Christian kingdoms. This process was soon reflected in works of historiography that traced the foundation and development of the new polities. Many of … Lire la suite →

Il volume raccoglie gli atti di un convegno interdisciplinare, svoltosi a Roma nel 2021, che ha riunito alcuni tra i più noti studiosi di Roma medievale. I contributi, a seguito di un ampio confronto, permettono di delineare le caratteristiche delle … Lire la suite →

Prima che il concilio di Trento (1563) lo codificasse rigidamente, nel basso medioevo il matrimonio mantenne a lungo una natura laica, mutevole e versatile, caratterizzata da una grande variabilità di pratiche e modelli. Pare quindi più opportuno parlare di matrimoni … Lire la suite →

Il gusto per i soffitti lignei dipinti costituisce un fenomeno che interessò soprattutto l’Europa meridionale dal Medioevo centrale al Rinascimento, rappresentando – pur se declinato secondo modalità strutturali ed esornative differenti – un elemento caratteristico e unificante. Anche se tali … Lire la suite →