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Carolingian culture has often been treated as an elite affair with little effect beyond a restricted circle close to the royal court. To do justice to the diversity of extant material, our traditional focal points need to be recontextualised. Many … Lire la suite →

È mai esistita un’ideologia imperiale connessa con la comunicazione linguistica nell’Europa del tardo Medio Evo e della prima modernità? E, in tal caso, all’esterno dell’impero germanico o bizantino, vi furono sovrani che tentarono di definire o imporre una “imperialità linguistica”? … Lire la suite →

Combats et batailles sont au Moyen Âge des lieux obligés dans les chansons de geste, les romans et chroniques, car ils contribuent à une glorification des héros et de leurs exploits. Mais la littérature qui décrit une science de la … Lire la suite →

Il volume presenta i risultati del convegno internazionale tenutosi alla Bergische Universität di Wuppertal nel settembre 2019. I contributi raccolti si confrontano con la seconda affermazione contenuta nel dictatus papae di Gregorio VII (Quod solus Romanus pontifex iure dicatur universalis). … Lire la suite →

For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era’s surviving historical record. … Lire la suite →

A wandering “Orpheus among the barbarians,” a lively flatterer of the powerful and an appreciator of good food and pleasant company: the sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus is known to us today for being all these things. Yet in the Middle … Lire la suite →

Per circa cinquant’anni, a partire dagli anni Ottanta del Duecento, Orvieto fu retta da governi di popolo e la sua storia politica è stata ritenuta un esempio dei successi e dell’involuzione di questo tipo di regimi: la salita al potere … Lire la suite →

Faking It! collects eleven chapters which explore the question of forgery from different disciplinary angles: literary historical and art historical contributions share space with discussions of jewels, architecture and coinage. The various case studies take as their focus developments in … Lire la suite →

The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity’s eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, … Lire la suite →

Entre 1494 et 1559, la péninsule italienne fut le théâtre de plusieurs guerres d’une intensité encore jamais atteinte. Souvent présentées comme un affrontement voulu par des souverains français aux ambitions chimériques, de Charles VIII à Henri II, les guerres d’Italie ont pourtant … Lire la suite →