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Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction.
Between Scylla and Charybdis
The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand years, from Antiquity to the Expulsion, based on some 40,000 archival records, most of them hitherto unpublished. It illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious vicissitudes of the Jewish minority and its relations with the surrounding majority of Romans, Moslems and Christians. While the antecedents of the Jewish presence on the island are shrouded in mystery, more and more historical records surface with the passage of time.
Lotus 18 – Colin Chapman’s U-turn
In 1960, Colin Chapman sought to identify the most straightforward and uncomplicated way of building a Formula 1 car. The result was his first rear-engined design, the trendsetting Lotus 18. This book charts the 18's competition history, from its inception, up to 1966 -Â via sensational victories over Ferrari at Monaco and the Nurburgring.
Erudizione e cultura storica nella Sicilia del XIX secolo
[English]: Through the correspondence between Michele Amari (1806-1889) and Raffaele Starrabba (1834-1906), the volume provides a glimpse of the historiographical panorama of the Italian nineteenth century in the crucial period that followed the birth of the Nation. The correspondence also illuminates the figure of Baron Starrabba, who played a fundamental role in the local archival administration and was the founder, with Isidoro Carini, of the Sicilian Society for the History and of its periodical, the "Archivio Storico Siciliano". / [Italiano]: Attraverso il carteggio intercorso tra il noto storico Michele Amari (1806-1889) e l'archivista siciliano Raffaele Starrabba (1834-1906), il volume fornisce uno spaccato del panorama storiografico dell’Ottocento italiano nel periodo cruciale che seguì la nascita dello Stato unitario, restituendo al contempo il giusto peso al Barone Starrabba, che ebbe un ruolo fondamentale all'interno dell'amministrazione archivistica locale e fu il fondatore, con Isidoro Carini, della Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria e del suo periodico, l’«Archivio Storico Siciliano».
The Jews in Sicily, Volume 2 (1302-1391)
This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily for most of the fourteenth century. It is the sequel to the first volume on the history of the Jews in Sicily, and illustrates the events of the first century of Aragonese rule over the island. During that period, often unsettled by political upheavals, the Jewish minority flourished economically, but suffered, along with the rest of the population, during civil war and uprisings of the barons. Some thousand documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships with the authorities and their Christian neighbours. Much ne...
