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In dozens of monumental examples across central and northern Italy, late-medieval artists created complex diagrammatic paintings whose content was conveyed not through proto-perspectival spaces but rather through complex circles, trees, hierarchical stemmata, and winding pathways. Trecento Pictoriality is the first … Lire la suite →

Francesca Trivellato part sur les traces de la légende qui a accompagné l’idée de prédispositions particulières des Juifs pour le commerce et le crédit. À l’origine se trouve la fable de l’invention juive, à la fin du Moyen Âge, de … Lire la suite →

Contemporary scholarship on Bonaventure has characterized him as the Neo-platonic foil to the Aristotelianism of his day. The present book, however, shows a Bonaventure who is highly enthusiastic about utilizing the philosophy of Aristotle and who centers much of his … Lire la suite →

Au cours de la première moitié du XVe siècle, anachorète et abbesse Colette de Corbie (1381-1447) devint la première femme à réformer un ordre monastique contemplatif en fondant vingt-quatre maisons franciscaines en France, en Bourgogne et dans les Pays-Bas. Pendant … Lire la suite →

Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces – royal, monastic and secular – that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500, a period in which Paris became one … Lire la suite →

Projected color saturates our world of images and screens, leading to a dissociation of color from material realities through its cultural attachment to light and the efflorescence of optics. Under these conditions, it is difficult to imagine a past where … Lire la suite →

Bernardo Tasso (Bergamo, 11 novembre 1493 – Ostiglia, 5 settembre 1569) fu autore di libri di lettere, di poemi cavallereschi, di una vasta produzione lirica in stile ‘antico’ e ‘moderno’; ma fu anche segretario e ambasciatore d’orizzonti europei: dalla Francia … Lire la suite →

Accès : ici This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot … Lire la suite →

Providing a new narrative of how local authority and social structures adapted in response to the decline of lordship and the process of state formation, Spike Gibbs uses manorial officeholding – where officials were chosen from among tenants to help … Lire la suite →

Il volume rappresenta il primo tentativo di «ricostruzione» del registro deperdito delle bolle di Celestino V (5 luglio – 13 dicembre 1294). Dell’esistenza di tale registro sono testimonianza dieci bolle originali che riportano a tergo la R di registrazione e … Lire la suite →