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Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschrifts are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschrifts are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983, more than 659,000 articles from more than 30,500 festschrifts, published between 1977 and 2011, have been catalogued.
A Renaissance Architecture of Power
The growth of princely states in early Renaissance Italy brought a thorough renewal to the old seats of power. One of the most conspicuous outcomes of this process was the building or rebuilding of new court palaces, erected as prestigious residences in accord with the new ‘classical’ principles of Renaissance architecture. The novelties, however, went far beyond architectural forms: they involved the reorganisation of courtly interiors and their functions, new uses for the buildings, and the relationship between the palaces and their surroundings. The whole urban setting was affected by these processes, and therefore the social, residential and political customs of its inhabitants. This is the focus of A Renaissance Architecture of Power, which aims to analyse from a comparative perspective the evolution of Italian court palaces in the Renaissance in their entirety. Contributors are Silvia Beltramo, Flavia Cantatore, Bianca de Divitiis, Emanuela Ferretti, Marco Folin, Giulio Girondi, Andrea Longhi, Marco Rosario Nobile, Aurora Scotti, Elena Svalduz, and Stefano Zaggia.
A Diabolical Voice
In A Diabolical Voice, Justine L. Trombley traces the afterlife of the Mirror of Simple Souls, which circulated anonymously for two centuries in four languages, though not without controversy or condemnation. Widely recognized as one of the most unusual and important mystical treatises of the late Middle Ages, the Mirror was condemned in Paris in 1310 as a heretical work, and its author, Marguerite Porete, was burned at the stake. Trombley identifies alongside the work's increasing positive reception a parallel trend of opposition and condemnation centered specifically around its Latin translation. She's discovered fourteenth- and fifteenth-century theologians, canon lawyers, inquisitors, an...
Passeggiando per la Federico II
La seconda edizione aggiornata del volume, realizzata in italiano e in inglese, ha la finalità di far conoscere l’incidenza e l’importanza delle differenti sedi dell’Università Federico II tanto nel contesto urbano dell’area metropolitana di Napoli quanto in quello regionale. Una pubblicazione in occasione degli 800 anni della Federico II, che cadranno il 5 giugno del 2024. Le sedi della Federico II, raccolte in questo volume e descritte dai colleghi appartenenti all’area di storia dell’architettura della nostra università, sono fortemente legate alla storia della città, dall’alto medioevo all’età moderna e contemporanea. Infatti, attraverso la loro descrizione, emergono...
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, the essays in this volume paint a rather different picture. The expert-written contributions present a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insight into the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition of the city, continuity and discontinuity at the turn of the s...
Violencias textuales. La representación de las violencias contra las mujeres
Violencias textuales. La representación de las violencias contra las mujeres ofrece a lectores y lectoras un conjunto de producciones enyasísticas que giran, como su propio nombre indica, en torno a las violencias sufridas por las mujeres y su representación en la literatura, la pintura, los textos legales, la cultura popular, los ámbitos de la vida social y política y un largo etcétera. La elección de estos plurales, violencias y mujeres, ni es casual, ni sigue ningún principio de gramaticalidad que los exija. Lo que sí pretende es serle fiel a una realidad en la que existe una violencia estructural, y por tanto plural, con una tipología inmensa, ejercida contra las mujeres y no contra la mujer, siendo este reduccionismo otra forma de violentarnos. [Texto de la editorial].
Southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages
This book combines economic history and theory to offer a positive reappraisal of the interaction between demographic forces, urbanization, commercialisation and the role of the state, and their impact on the late medieval economy of the kingdom of Naples.
Il banco Strozzi di Napoli
Realtà composita e complessa, il Mezzogiorno tardomedievale viene qui presentato attraverso il filtro delle scritture contabili di una grande banca fiorentina: l’istituto di intermediazione creditizia impiantato a Napoli dai fratelli Filippo e Lorenzo Strozzi. Partendo dalla loro attività di mercanti e banchieri, di cui i Libri Giornali superstiti del banco napoletano e le Ricordanze offrono ampia e puntuale testimonianza, si approfondisce il tema dei rapporti e degli scambi tra i principali spazi economici del Mediterraneo occidentale nella seconda metà del XV secolo. Lo sguardo sulla capitale partenopea, oltre ad ampliare il quadro delle conoscenze riguardo a questa importante piazza commerciale e finanziaria quattrocentesca, sugli operatori economici coinvolti e sui rispettivi raggi d’azione e d’influenza, ha consentito, attraverso un metodo induttivo, di rilevare e ricostruire diversi aspetti della vita economica e sociale del Regno di Napoli al tempo di Ferrante d’Aragona (1458-1494).
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.
Social Support Systems in Rural Italy
This book examines the development of social support systems in the Modern age in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy. This investigation achieves two main purposes: first, it allows researchers to understand the role occupied concretely by welfare and micro-credit activities in the political and socio-economic panorama of rural Northern Italy; secondly, it verifies to what extent the formation of a more or less structured support system influenced the establishment of local identity and the rooting of individuals. The book brings together perspectives from different fields of research ranging from economic and political history to the study of the history of ecclesiastical ...
