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Principles of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering
Six years ago, at the end of my professional career in the oil industry, I left my management position within Agip S.p.A., a major multinational oil company whose headquarters are in Italy, to take up the chair in reservoir engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. There, I decided to prepare what was initially intended to be a set of lecture notes for the students attending the course. However, while preparing these notes, I became so absorbed in the subject matter that I soon found myself creating a substantial volume of text which could not only serve as a university course material, but also as a reference for wider professional applications. Thanks to the interest shown by the th...
A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal
A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal is the first comprehensive overview of its subject in English or any language. Cardinals are best known as the pope’s electors, but in the centuries from 1400 to 1800 they were so much more: pastors, inquisitors, diplomats, bureaucrats, statesmen, saints; entrepreneurs and investors; patrons of the arts, of music, literature, and science. Thirty-five essays explain their social background, positions and roles in Rome and beyond, and what they meant for wider society. This volume shows the impact which those men who took up the purple had in their respective fields and how their tenure of office shaped the entangled histories of Rome and the Catholic Church from a European and global perspective.
In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son
In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son provides a comprehensive history of the function of the parable of the prodigal son in shaping religious identity in medieval and Reformation Europe. By investigating a wealth of primary sources, the book reveals the interaction between commentaries, sermons, religious plays, and images as a decisive factor in the increasing popularity of the prodigal son. Pietro Delcorno highlights the ingenious and multifaceted uses of the parable within pastoral activities and shows the pervasive presence of the Bible in medieval communication. The prodigal son narrative became the ideal story to convey a discourse about sin and penance, grace and salvation. In this way, the parable was established as the paradigmatic biography of any believer.
Archeologia Medievale, XLI, 2014 – Archeologia Globale
Questo numero si apre con dieci saggi legati al tema dell’Archeologia globale. La sezione, curata da G.P. Brogiolo e E. Giannichedda, contiene riflessioni riguardanti la teoria e i metodi dell’archeologia dei paesaggi e dell’etnoarcheologia, l’archeologia predittiva, gli approcci teorici all’archeologia della produzione e allo studio dei manufatti, le conseguenze dell’archeologia globale sulla tutela e sulla valorizzazione . La rivista ospita la consueta sezione di Notizie scavi e lavori sul campo sia in Italia (ricerche archeologiche sulla Pietra di Bismantova, su Amiternum, e su San Pietro di Aldifreda a Caserta), sia nel bacino del Mediterraneo, con uno studio sulla Tripolitania rurale (tardoantica, medievale e ottomana). La sezione Note e Discussioni presenta studi e riflessioni su Bobbio e il suo territorio, sulle fortificazioni di Bologna dall’XI al XIII secolo, sui focolari domestici, forni e piani di cottura in Italia e due contributi in lingua spagnola sui contenitori ceramici; chiude la sezione un articolo del prof. S. Gelichi, direttore della rivista, sul museo di Comacchio.
The Great Pox
A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among ...
Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy
Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy, the essays in this volume recover those women - wives, widows, mistresses, the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature, rendered invisible or obscured by history or scholarship, as well as those who were overshadowed by male relatives, political accident, or spatial location. A multi-faceted invisibility of the individual and of the object is the thread that unites the chapters in this volume. Though some women chose to be invisible, for example the cloistered nun, these essays show that in fact, their voices are heard or seen through their commissions and their patrona...
