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A Convent Tale
Power often operates in strange and surprising ways. With A Convent Tale, Renee Baernstein uncovers some of the nuanced methods cloistered women devised to exert their agency. In the tradition of Simon Schama and Steven Ozment, Baernstein uses the compelling story of a single clan, the Sfondrati, to refashion our understanding of the early modern period. Showing the nuns as neither helpless victims nor valiant rebels, but reasonable beings maneuvering as best they could within limits set by class, gender and culture. Baernstein writes against the tendency to depict women as inactive pawns, and shows that even within the convent walls, nuns were empowered by ties with their (often earthly) families and actively involved in the politics of the period. Both a major contribution to scholarship on gender, family and religion in early modern Europe, and a colorful well-told tale of Renaissance intrigue, A Convent Tale is sure to attract a wide range of academic and general readers.
Capital, Investment, and Innovation in the Roman World
Investment in capital and innovation in its uses are often considered the linchpin of modern economic growth, but has this always been so? This volume aims to shed new light on the ancient Roman economy in the first book-length contribution focusing on the allocation and uses of capital and credit and the role of innovation in the Roman world.
Computational Intelligence
This present book includes a set of selected revised and extended versions of the best papers presented at the 11th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2019) – held in Vienna, Austria, from 17 to 19 September 2019. The authors focus on three outstanding fields of Computational Intelligence through the selected panel, namely Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Computation and Neural Computation. Besides presenting the recent advances of the selected areas, the book aims to aggregate new and innovative solutions for confirmed researchers and, on the other hand, to provide a source of information and/or inspiration for young interested researchers or learners in the ever-expanding and current filed of Computational Intelligence. It constitutes a precious provision of knowledge for individual researchers as well as represents a valuable sustenance for collective use in academic libraries (of universities and engineering schools) relating innovative techniques in various fields of applications.
A Companion to Late Antiquity
An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II
In this book, Shaun Blanchard uses a close study of the Synod of Pistoia (1786) to argue that the roots of the Vatican II reforms must be pushed back beyond the widely acknowledged twentieth-century forerunners of the Council, beyond Newman and the Tübingen School in the nineteenth century, to the eighteenth century, in which a variety of reform movements attempted ressourcement and aggiornamento.
Storia della Chiesa Riminese
Il presente volume si pone in continuità con i precedenti nel tentativo di presentare la storia della Chiesa riminese dal secondo decennio del Cinquecento sino all’età napoleonica. La storia riminese, anche per questo periodo, è stata già fatta oggetto di una serie di studi. Sul loro solco, si cerca qui di proporre le vicende in un’aggiornata prospettiva unitaria e sintetica, con uno stile divulgativo ma garantendo comunque un’accurata analisi scientifica, secondo il taglio già collaudato nei due precedenti volumi dedicati all’età antica e all’età medievale. La struttura di questo terzo volume dedicato all’età moderna si apre, come i precedenti, con due utili apparati dedicati rispettivamente alla cronologia essenziale ed alla cronotassi episcopale. Si presenta quindi articolato in due parti: una prima parte di carattere istituzionale più generale (le grandi questioni e scansioni temporali interne) ed una seconda parte in cui trovano spazio approfondimenti su temi e ambiti più specifici.
Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin Kohl
Benjamin G. Kohl (1938-2010) taught at Vassar College from 1966 till his retirement as Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities in 2001. His doctoral research at The Johns Hopkins University was directed by Frederic C. Lane, and his principal historical interests focused on northern Italy during the Renaissance, especially on Padua and Venice. His scholarly production includes the volumes Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405 (1998), and Culture and Politics in Early Renaissance Padua (2001), and the online database The Rulers of Venice, 1332-1524 (2009). The database is eloquent testimony of his priority attention to historical sources and to their accessibility, and also of his enthusiasm for collaboration and sharing among scholars.
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