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Food & Faith in Christian Culture
This anthology follows the intersection of food and faith from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century, charting the complex relationship among religious eating habits and politics, culture, and social structure.
"Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350?490 "
Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely considered effect of gender on the profoundly contextualized perceptions of the male and female religious who viewed the Florentine Last Supper images in surprisingly different physical and cultural refectory environments. In addition to offering detailed visual analyses, the author draws on a broad spectrum of published and unpublished primary materials, including monastic rules, devotional tracts an...
The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language
Beauty is a central concept in the Italian cultural imagination throughout its history and in virtually all its manifestations. It particularly permeates the domains that have governed the construction of Italian identity: literature and language. The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language assesses this long tradition in a series of essays covering a wide chronological and thematic range, while crossing from historical linguistics to literary and cultural studies. It offers elements for reflection on cross-disciplinary approaches in the humanities, and demonstrates the power of beauty as a fundamental category beyond aesthetics.
Reclaiming Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) wrote almost four hundred epistles in her lifetime, effectively insinuating herself into the literary, political, and theological debates of her day. At the same time, as the daughter of a Sienese dyer, Catherine had no formal education, and her accomplishments were considered miracles rather than the work of her own hand. As a result, she has been largely excluded from accounts of the development of European humanism and the language and literature of Italy. Reclaiming Catherine ofSiena makes the case for considering Catherine alongside literary giants such as Dante and Petrarch, as it underscores Catherine's commitment to using the vernacular to manifest Ch...
Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The City State in Late-Medieval Italy - Power and restraint - Political thought: theory and practice - Case studies - Medici - Culture, art and patronage.
Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through the early seventeenth century. In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Krohn both treats the illustrations in Scappi's cookbook as visual evidence for a lost material reality; and through the illustrations, including several newly-discovered hand-colored examples, connects Scappi's Opera with other types of late Renaissance illustrated books. What emerges from both of these approaches is a new way of thinking about the place of cookbooks in the history of knowledge. Krohn argues that with the ...
In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint. The story of Saint Josaphat, a prince who gave up his wealth and kingdom to follow Jesus, was one of the most popular Christian tales of the Middle Ages, translated into a dozen languages, and cited by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice. Yet Josaphat is only remembered today because of the similarities of his life to that of the Buddha. In Search of the Christian Buddha is set against the backdrop of the trade along the Silk Road, the Christian settlement of Palestine, the spread of Islam, and the Crusades. It traces the path of the Buddha’s tale from India and shows how it evolv...
L’italiano e i giovani. Come scusa? Non ti followo
L’Accademia della Crusca, in occasione della Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo (SLIM), realizza un volume in collaborazione con il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale. In linea con la proclamazione, da parte della Comunità Europea, del 2022 Anno Europeo dei Giovani, la XXII edizione della SLIM è dedicata a L’italiano e i giovani. Con lo stesso titolo esce questa raccolta di saggi che, da angolature diverse, affronta sia il linguaggio dei giovani, sia la lingua per i giovani. Linguisti già noti per i loro studi sul linguaggio giovanile, sulla lingua e la letteratura italiana, e giovani studiosi, immersi per motivi anche anagrafici nella contemporaneità degli usi linguistici, hanno contribuito a rendere il volume variegato, facendo il punto sul linguaggio giovanile e fornendo spunti e strumenti per l’insegnamento dell’italiano.
Dante's Divine Comedy
Vividly illustrates the originality and energy of the Divine Comedy, for readers old and new, through Dante's singular language.
