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Animal Performance Studies
Indagare la dimensione dell'animalità nella storia degli studi teatrali implica la pluridisciplinarietà che è parte della nuova teatrologia, da sempre in dialogo con le scienze umane (antropologia, sociologia, semiotica) e con le neuroscienze. L'intento di questa raccolta di saggi è quello di iniziare a tracciare una storia del teatro come storia mista umana e non-umana – per la quale si rende necessario un dialogo con le scienze naturali, in particolar modo con l'etologia e con la zooantropologia, e di riattraversare in modo fruttuoso l'intera storia dei generi performativi, all'interno dei quali le performance interspecie si rivelano come una pratica originaria e costitutiva. In questo senso l'ottica sperimentale e multidisciplinare dei Critical Animal Studies risulta il terreno comune attraverso cui sono organizzati i contributi che compongono il volume e che spaziano dalla teoria della performance, all'etnoscenologia, dalla zooantropologia alla zoosemiotica, dalla filosofia all'etologia, senza tralasciare il punto di vista degli artisti della scena contemporanea.
A Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Bologna
Long neglected by scholars, medieval and Renaissance Bologna is now recognized as a center of economic, political-constitutional, legal, and intellectual innovation, as the city that served as the cultural crossroads of Italy. The city’s distinctive achievements and its transition from medieval commune to second largest city of the Renaissance Papal State is illuminated by essays that present the work of current historians, many made available in English for the first time, from the broadest possible perspective: from the material city with its porticoes, the conflicts that brought bloodshed and turmoil to its streets, the disputations of masters and students, and to the masterpieces of artists who laid the foundations for Baroque art. See inside the book.
The Unruly Tongue
A cultural history of speech in medieval Italy The Unruly Tongue, a cultural history of speech in medieval Italy, offers a new account of how the power of words changed in Western thought. Despite the association of freedom of speech with the political revolutions of the eighteenth century that ushered in the era of modern democracies, historian Melissa Vise locates the history of the repression of speech not in Europe’s monarchies but rather in Italy’s republics. Exploring the cultural process through which science and medicine, politics, law, literature, and theology together informed a new political ethics of speech, Vise uncovers the formation of a moral code where the regulation of ...
Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance
This book makes a substantial contribution to the study of Florentine history. It answers an important but hitherto unresolved question: why did the Florentine Republic keep a university in its capital city between 1385 and 1473 rather than follow the example of other Italian states in maintaining a university in a subject town? Based on a wide range of newly-found sources, it discloses that the University owed its survival to the support of the Florentine elite, especially the Medici family and its followers. It reveals systematically the close ties between the University and major developments in the social, economic, political, ecclesiastical, and cultural life of Florence and Florentine Tuscany. The appendices fill some of the greatest gaps in our knowledge of the University, identifying administrators, students, examiners, and teachers.
Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna
Utilizing a uniquely rich collection of trial records and council meeting minutes from late medieval Bologna, this book offers the first study of summary justice and oligarchy in an Italian commune, demonstrating how new legal institutions arose in response to the increasingly exclusionary policies of the popolo government.
The Medieval Prison
The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. The Medieval Prison challenges this view by tracing the institution's emergence to a much earlier period beginning in the late thirteenth century, and in doing so provides a unique view of medieval prison life. G. Geltner carefully reconstructs life inside the walls of prisons in medieval Venice, Florence, Bologna, and elsewhere in Europe. He argues that many enduring features of the modern prison--including administration, finance, and the classification of inmates--were already developed by the end of the fourteenth century, and that incarceration as a formal p...
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘Books of Fiefs’)
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘books of fiefs’) are the earliest written body of feudal customs in Europe, codified in northern Italy c.1100-1250, which gave rise to feudal law as a branch of civil law. Their role in shaping modern ideas of feudalism has aroused an intense debate among medievalists, leading to deep re-thinking of the ‘feudal’ vocabulary and categories. This book offers an up-to-date English translation with a working Latin text introduced by a historical and historiographical overview of the Libri, thereby providing a valuable tool to understanding the long-standing importance of this collection over nine centuries of European history.
The Body of Evidence
When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine, edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, shows how in the late Middle Ages the dead body, which had previously rarely been questioned, became a specific object of investigation by doctors, philosophers, theologians and jurists. The volume sheds new light on the elements of continuity, but also on the effort made to liberate the semantization of the corpse from what were, broadly speaking, necromantic practices, which would eventually merge into forensic medicine.
Lecturas del cuerpo. Fisiognomía y literatura en la España áurea
La fisiognomía es una disciplina que interpreta el aspecto exterior de los seres humanos (y a veces, de animales) para sacar conclusiones acerca de su carácter, disposición y destino. Los trabajos de investigación sobre la fisiognomía de la época medieval y áurea son relativamente escasos, seguramente también porque para analizar la textualización de determinadas prácticas fisiognómicas es indispensable rastrear qué tratados fisiognómicos circulaban entonces en España y estaban al alcance de autores y lectores. La obra de Folke Gernert, Lecturas del cuerpo, aborda por primera vez la importancia de la fisiognomía en el Renacimiento y el siglo XVII español; la variedad de aspec...
