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Symbols and Models in the Mediterranean
This collection spans a vast chronology and territory, ranging from Old Kingdom Egypt to modern-day Slovenia and moving geographically from the centres to the peripheries of the Mediterranean and back again, including Antinoë, Calabria, Belgrade, and Paris. While this volume can be situated well within the context of Mediterranean studies, each essay serves as a micro-study that demonstrates one of the many ways in which Mediterranean communities have co-opted, appropriated, and adapted symbols from one another. As a result, this interdisciplinary volume adds something unique to each discipline represented within it (including history, anthropology, art history, literature, and philosophy, among others) while contributing to the greater discourse of Mediterranean studies. Furthermore, the essays collectively illustrate how symbols were distributed widely among Mediterranean communities and, consequently, further a dialogue about what “Mediterranean” might mean. Overall, the original content and its accessibility make the volume valuable to academics, graduate and undergraduate students, and general audiences alike.
The Military Orders Volume V
Scholarly interest and popular interest in the military orders show no sign of abating. Their history stretches from the early twelfth century to the present. They were among the richest and most powerful religious corporations in pre-Reformation Europe, and they founded their own states on Rhodes and Malta and also on the Baltic coast. Historians of the Church, of art and architecture, of agriculture and banking, of medicine and warfare and of European expansion can all benefit from investigating the orders and their archives. The conferences on their history that have been organized in London every four years have attracted scholars from all over the world. The present volume records the p...
The Various Models of Lordship in Europe between the Ninth and Fifteenth Centuries
The status of lord represented one of the most original solutions to the political and social transitions of the Medieval period. Questions still remain unanswered and require further investigation, thus many scholars have collaborated to produce this collection which offers a synthesis of the most recent scholarship. This book relates the workings of seigneurial systems in different areas of Europe, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from Castile to Pontus. In this way, the perspective remains the same, institutional and material. This book emphasises both the institutional and informal forms of lordship identified and crystallised by social and political actors (for example, communities, sovereigns, nobles, bishops, and abbots). It offers a general framework for those approaching the subject for the first time and a useful in-depth tool with numerous regional cases for long-term scholars.
Type and Archetype in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
This book presents new approaches to the study of typology in Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture and highlights the importance of type and archetype in constructing architecture and image theories.
Islamic Law of the Sea
This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.
The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307–1314)
Seven hundred years after the dissolution of the order, the trial of the Templars still arouses enormous controversy and speculation. In October 1307, all the brothers of the military-religious order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy and other crimes. In 1312, Pope Clement V, at the Council of Vienne, dissolved the order. Since the 1970s, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the trial, and a series of books and articles have widened scholars' understanding of causes of this notorious affair, its course and its aftermath. However, many gaps in knowledge and understanding remain. What were the Templars doing in the mo...
Città nel Mezzogiorno d’Italia tra XI e XV secolo
La storiografia degli ultimi decenni ha riportato l’attenzione sullo studio del fenomeno urbano nel Mezzogiorno, cercando di liberarsi dall’esausto confronto con la civiltà comunale dell’Italia centro-settentrionale e valorizzando invece la dialettica con la monarchia. Questo volume intende proseguire nel sondare alcuni esempi di città e quasi città, all’interno del Regno. I casi esaminati spaziano da un centro di nuova fondazione come Francavilla Fontana, a una robusta quasi città come Barletta, a centri che consolidano il loro profilo come Teramo e Cosenza, e a città con tradizioni politiche forti, come Benevento, Salerno, Bari e anche Napoli. Agli autori è stata rimessa una ...
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo
Studiare gli archivi dei signori rurali del Mezzogiorno d’Italia tra XIV e XV secolo significa cogliere la natura del loro potere, il modo in cui esso si diceva. Il volume, che accoglie le sollecitazioni della storiografia più recente, è fondato sulla repertoriazione di importanti complessi documentari dell’Archivio di Stato di Napoli, fondo Sommaria (Relevi, con i dossier per la successione feudale; Dipendenze, I, Conti erariali dei feudi e Diversi, con registri signorili pervenuti al Fisco per confisca o morte senza eredi). Sono inoltre oggetto di studio i cartulari e le platee calabresi, tipici «libri-archivio» che inglobano repertori più antichi (famiglie Ruffo e Sanseverino), e le pergamene degli Albertini di Nola. La ricchezza informativa dei fondi archivistici e dei registri presi in considerazione consente agli autori di concentrarsi sulla sostanza dei poteri signorili, la tipologia delle scritture prodotte dai signori e per i signori, la loro gestione del patrimonio, le strategie di costruzione della memoria. Saggi di R. Berardi, P. d’Arcangelo, V. Rivera Magos, S. Pollastri, L. Petracca, L. Tufano.
Archeologia Medievale, XXIII, 1996
«Archeologia Medievale» pubblica contributi originali riguardanti l’archeologia postclassica, la storia della cultura materiale in età pre-industriale e le scienze applicate nella forma di saggi e studi originali; relazioni preliminari di scavo; contributi critici su libri, articoli, ritrovamenti, ecc. Vengono pubblicati sia testi in italiano che in altre lingue.
