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A partire dal Duecento si verificano processi culturali di grande rilevanza e mutamenti di carattere epocale nel vissuto religioso del popolo cristiano. Per Giacomo da Vitry, illustre iniziatore del nuovo genere letterario dell’agiografia mistica, si apre una nuova età, quella … Lire la suite →

This book compares the ways in which new powers arose in the shadows of the Roman Empire and its Byzantine and Carolingian successors, of Iran, the Caliphate and China in the first millennium CE. These new powers were often established … Lire la suite →

La straordinaria scoperta presso il Museo Leone di Vercelli di un Breviario-Messale iemale proveniente da Salerno e databile agli anni dell’arcivescovo Romualdo II Guarna (1153-1181) ha individuato il più antico testimone noto della liturgia cittadina, che trasmette ricche e preziosissime … Lire la suite →

La storia del Medioevo è anche, e soprattutto, storia di migrazioni, di incontri e rimestamenti, di interazioni e radicamenti e di fusioni e contaminazioni – continue e ininterrotte – tra popoli, culture, lingue e civiltà differenti. Ciò vale tanto più … Lire la suite →

What was happening in Byzantium as the Turks drew ever closer to Constantinople and an interest in classical Greek studies had been rekindled in the West? What was the role of the Byzantine scholars in an Empire facing multiple political … Lire la suite →

Entre 1448 y 1449 Michele Savonarola, profesor de la Universidad de Ferrara y médico de corte del marqués Leonello de Este, termina De balneis et termis Ytalie, el tratado de medicina termal más completo conocido hasta el momento. En él … Lire la suite →

Les œuvres en vers les plus célèbres d’Abélard sont ces poèmes d’amour composés pour Héloïse au temps qu’il la séduisait　; mais ils sont perdus, et c’est en vain qu’on les cherche. La célébrité de ces textes inconnus a laissé dans … Lire la suite →

For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region’s complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same era the Near East was … Lire la suite →

The power of the medieval Church stretched far beyond the religious sphere. Bishops and monasteries held lordship over vast areas of the realm, often wielding political and judicial powers beyond those of secular lords. Early twentieth-century scholarship tended to view … Lire la suite →

This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and international scholarship, the … Lire la suite →