Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. — 598 S. — (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 139). In the Middle Ages, Italian communes coordinated their political relations through leagues. The Popes were confronted with this phenomenon as they set up their secular dominion in the 13th century. The study analyzes the terms and texts of the alliances in the Patrimonium...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. — 598 S. — (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 139). In the Middle Ages, Italian communes coordinated their political relations through leagues. The Popes were confronted with this phenomenon as they set up their secular dominion in the 13th century. The study analyzes the terms and texts of the alliances in the Patrimonium...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2023. — 436 p. — (Haut Moyen Âge 44). Il regno di Pipino, figlio di Carlo Magno, è stato a lungo trascurato dalla ricerca storica, nonstante la sua importanza per l’Italia, le regioni transalpine e il mondo carolingio nel suo insieme. I contributi qui raccolti, esito di due convegni tenutisi a Trento e a Vienna, mettono in luce con...
University of Toronto, 2017. — 311 p. This study examines the documentary and literary culture associated with the court of the Lombard Duchy and Principality of Benevento during the eighth and ninth centuries. More specifically, through the careful analysis of different genres of text associated with the court network, including epigraphy, legislation, precepts, charters,...
York University, 2015. — 319 p. This dissertation is an ample and thorough assessment of hunting in late medieval and Renaissance northern and central Italy. Hunting took place in a variety of landscapes and invested animal species. Both of these had been influenced by human activities for centuries. Hunting had deep cultural significance for a range of social groups, each of...
Berlin, München, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. — 428 S. — (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 129). After the demise of the House of Montefeltro in 1508, rule shifted to the House of della Rovere, situated in the small but culturally important and geostrategically well-positioned Duchy of Urbino. This study sheds new light on the hypothesis about the...
Herausgegeben vom Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte. — Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1971. — 96 S. — (Vorträge und Forschungen - Sonderbände 9). Aus dem Inhalt: R. Manselli. Grundzüge der religiösen Geschichte Italiens im 12. Jahrhundert – P. Lamma: Byzanz kehrt nach Italien zurück – A. Haverkamp: Friedrich I. und der hohe italienische Adel.
Università di Bologna, 2020. — 195 p. This thesis focuses on Medieval historiography, in particular the Marca Trevigiana commentators in the age of Ezzelino III da Romano (Gerardo Maurisio, Rolandino da Padova, the author of the Chronicon Marchiae Tarvisinae et Lombardiae, Paride da Cerea, Niccolò Smereglo, and Antonio Godi) in order to analyze the character of Ezzelino and his...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 314 p. As Minister of the Italian Ostrogothic kingdom, Cassiodorus was challenged to develop integration strategies and solutions for issues of political order that could organize the peaceful coexistence of immigrant Goths and indigenous Romans. The measures he undertook provide a unique window on the conditions required for domestic peace and the ways...
Brepols Publishers, 2011. — 358 p. — (Europa Sacra 5). This volume examines Florentine society at crucial moments of change that are often treated separately in historical narratives: the later years of Medici government under the aegis of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the four tumultuous years of Savonarola’s religious regime from 1494 to 1498, and the unsettled early decades of...
München: Fink, 1997. — 265 S. Die sorgfältig recherchierte Münsteraner Habilitationsschrift erörtert am Fallbeispiel Mailand Entstehungs- und Rezeptionsbedingungen, Entwicklung und Erkenntnisproblematik der laikalen Geschichtsschreibung im Umfeld der norditalienischen Kommunen von ihrer Entstehung bis zur Signorie. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen Genese, Überlieferung,...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 312 p. In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326–1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe's most important polities. For nearly forty years, she held her throne and the avid attention of her contemporaries. Their varied responses to her reign created a reputation that made Johanna...
Purdue University, 2019. — 169 p. During the twelfth century, the Norman monarchy in southern Italy and Sicily created a cosmopolitan culture that promoted connectivity, rather than domination, between the various kingdoms of the Mediterranean and Europe, in particular, those of the Byzantine Empire and of Fatimid Egypt. Rather than exhibiting translatio imperii's...
Brill, 2025. — vi, 279 p. — (Studies in Jewish History and Culture 79). This volume aims to shed new light on the history of the Jews in Italy between the early modern period and the emergence of a unified Italian state, explicitly placing Jews within the history of the state-building process. It seeks to reconsider Jewish history systematically by stressing the relation of...
Brill Academic Pub, 2023. — 776 p. — (Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500, 131). This volume presents a new history of Orsanmichele, covering the centuries before the Renaissance. It explores the Florentine grain market, the piazza of Orsanmichele and its loggias, and Orsanmichele’s important confraternity and Madonnas during the thirteenth and...
Brill, 2020. — xii, 218 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). In Between Popes, Inquisitors and Princes Jessica Dalton uses extensive, original archival research to provide the first history of a unique and controversial papal privilege that allowed the first Jesuits to absolve heretics in sixteenth-century Italy without involving bishops or inquisitors. Dalton uses...
Routledge, 2016. — 192 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). Notwithstanding the wealth of material published about St Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) in the context of medieval scholarship, and the wealth of visual material regarding her, there is a dearth of published scholarship concerning her cult in the early modern period. This work examines the representations of St...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 324 p. — (Beiträge zur Hagiographie 18). Die Heiligenverehrung in drei Städten Süditaliens steht im Fokus dieses Bandes. Am Beispiel von Benevent, Neapel und Bari in der Zeit vom 8. bis zum beginnenden 11. Jahrhundert werden jene Heilige untersucht, die in der süditalienischen Region Verehrung erfuhren. Diese wurden entweder aufgrund von...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 368 p. In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts, done to merit this fate? Anthony D’Elia shows how the recovery of classical literature and art during the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of...
Rice University, 1995. — 287 p. Erchempert, a ninth-century Lombard monk attached to the monastery of Monte Cassino in Southern Italy, wrote the History of the Lombards of Benevento around 889, a history intended to contrast with Paul the Deacon's earlier History of the Lombards by including the Carolingian conquest of the Lombard kingdom in 774 and by showing Lombard failings...
Brill, 2020. — vi, 260 p. — (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700). In Rome, where strategies to re-establish Roman Catholic orthodoxy were formulated, the problem of how to deal with foreigners and particularly with ‘heretics’ coming from Northern Europe was an important priority throughout the early modern period. Converting foreigners had a special significance for the Papacy....
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. — 646 S. — (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 128). This study undertakes a detailed examination of the role of chaplains in the Kingdom of Sicily. It analyzes sources and terminology, the chaplains’ life circumstances and areas of activity, and how they were seen by their contemporaries. The study shows that in southern...
V&R Unipress, 2015. — 501 p. — (Orbis Mediaevalis 15). The study discusses urban space in the medieval commune of Genoa as a place of cultural self-description. The analysis of early forms of erecting urban monuments and of written documentation processes in the areas of law and historiography reveal practices and procedures for conceptualising and securing the community....
Brepols, 2008. — 248 p. — (Europa Sacra 1). At the conclusion of the fifteenth century and well into the first half of the sixteenth, Florence underwent radical political and social transformations. The republic, which had nurtured the cultural phenomenon of the Renaissance, was finally overthrown and the Medici returned triumphant as outright rulers of the once-free commune....
Macquarie University, 2023. — 111 p. This study examines royal women in the Ostrogothic monarchy which ruled over a Roman population in Italy from 493-540CE.1 Scholars have argued that Ostrogothic kings reconstructed the Roman Imperial monarchy by adopting characteristics associated with Roman emperors, thereby legitimising their rule to their Roman audience. This study instead...
Brill Schöningh, 2017. — 326 S., 21 s/w und 6 farb. Abb., 4 s/w Tab. — (Mittelmeerstudien 17). Contributors: Richard Engl, Julia Becker, Vera von Falkenhausen, Theresa Jäckh M.A., Thomas Dittelbach, Alex Metcalfe, Mohammed Querfelli, Hadrien Penet, Fabrizio Titone, Kristjan Toomaspoeg, and Elisa Vermiglio. At the heart of the Mediterranean, the island of Sicily has long been a...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 383 p. A detailed history, from the mid-thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, of an Italian state, Rimini, and its ruling family, the Malatesta. The Malatesta are best known, through the works of Jacob Burckhardt, John Addington Symonds and others, for their colourful contribution to the court life and culture of renaissance Italy. There...
Brill, 2011. — 375 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 89). Narrating the history of Naples from its foundation in early antiquity to the year 1343, the Cronaca di Partenope was the first chronologically comprehensive history of the city and one of the earliest works of any genre composed in the Neapolitan vernacular. Drawing on earlier-medieval texts and a healthy dose of legend,...
Brill, 2016. — 463 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 251/12; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 251/12). In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 – 1500, Carla Keyvanian offers a new interpretation of the urban development of Rome during three seminal centuries by focusing on the construction of public hospitals. These monumental charitable...
Brill, 2008. — xvi, 228 p. — (The Medieval Franciscans 5). Earlier scholarship has characterized female Franciscanism as an institution established by Clare of Assisi in collaboration with Saint Francis. This understanding is anachronistic, however, and overlooks the more complicated disputes over what it meant for enclosed women to have a mendicant vocation. This book...
Brill, 2021. — xvi, 284 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 129). Providing new insights into the Bianchi devotions, a medieval popular religious revival which responded to an outbreak of plague at the turn of the fifteenth century, this book takes a comparative, local and regional approach to the Bianchi, challenging traditional presentations of the movement as homogeneous whole....
University of Minnesota, 2019. — 275 p. This dissertation uncovers the role that state debt and grain distribution played in the sociopolitical world of late medieval Genoa. The Genoese became the first polity to experiment with state debt in the twelfth century when wealthy members of the community exchanged money to build a fleet for revenue shares from the salt tax. Over the...
Brill, 2024. — 233 p. — (The Medieval Franciscans 24). The book offers studies on different aspects of the life, activity, and written works of Roberto da Lecce, one of the most famous preachers of fifteenth-century Italy. His preaching cycles in Italian cities were attended by huge crowds and are representative for the activity of many other less-known confreres and, in the...
Brill, 2022. — 549 p. — (The Medieval Franciscans 19). In the second half of the fifteenth century, Roberto Caracciolo’s preaching touched the most important cities of Italy, and met with wide and resounding success. His sermons were read and diffused throughout Italy and Europe, propelled by the emergence of the printing press industry. This book provides a new and...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 316 p. — (I Tatti Studies In Italian Renaissance History). In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2020. — 318 p. In 1563, the Council of Trent published its Decrees, calling for significant reforms of the Catholic Church in response to criticism from both Protestants and Catholics alike. Bishops, according to the Decrees, would take the lead in implementing these reforms. They were tasked with creating a Church in which priests and...
University of Edinburgh, 1994. — 429 p. Interest in the history of Latin monasticism in southern Italy has been stimulated in recent years due to the important excavations at the site of the monastery of S.Vincenzo al Volturno. These excavations have revealed an immensely opulent monastic complex which has reinforced Angelo Pantoni's famous statement when he referred to the...
Pindar Press, 2019. — 765 p. Using the great south-Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the best preserved monasteries of the earliest Middle Ages, as a case-study and heuristic paradigm, John Mitchell has engaged in a wide-ranging examination of the ways in which visual culture was developed and deployed by ambitious states and institutions in early medieval...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 308 p. The career of Theoderic the Ostrogoth is one of the great success stories of antiquity. From being a ruler of a barbarian people wandering around the Balkans, he became king in Italy (493-526) and established one of the most powerful of the post-Roman states. Due to its ample documentation, the Italy of Theoderic allows detailed...
Queens University, 2011. — 132 p. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries southern Italy passed irrevocably out of Byzantine control and into Norman control, at roughly the same time as the Roman papacy and the Christians of the East were beginning to divide into what we now know as the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Historians have typically viewed the history of...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 345 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish exile Columbanus,...
University of St Andrews, 2009. — 354 p. The seventh century was a formative period in the history of western monasticism. It was during this period that a monastic culture became more entrenched on the Continent with the foundation of new monasteries that were more closely tied to royal and aristocratic power. The catalyst behind this development was the Irish abbot and...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 229 p. — (British School at Rome Studies). This is the third and final volume in a series examining the history of Rome in the early Middle Ages (700-1000 CE) through the primary lens of the city's material culture. The previous volumes examined the eighth and the ninth centuries respectively. John Osborne uses buildings (both religious and...
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. — 274 p. — (European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions 11). This book discusses Theoderic the Great’s years of political activity, which coincided with the advent of a new era and were marked by features of two distinct civilizations. From the political and cultural...
Brill, 2022. — 348 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 231). Thérèse Peeters shows how trust and distrust affected reform attempts in the post-Tridentine Church, while offering a multifaceted account of day-to-day religiosity in seventeenth-century Genoa.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. — 270 p. In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of unofficial saints' cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult's merits or the saint's orthodoxy. As she demonstrates,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. — 298 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 99). In The Anxieties of a Citizen Class: The Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 Kiril Petkov identifies the socio-psychological preoccupations accompanying the formation of the leading commoner group of early Renaissance Venice, the cittadini originarii, as revealed in a...
Peters Edward (ed.). — Routledge, 2014. — — (Variorum Collected Studies CS1046). Of the twenty-five essays in this volume, most were published between 1961 and 2013, but four are printed here for the first time. They represent the work of a great and original scholar in Mediterranean history whose unflagging interest in Frederick II and his world consistently led him out into...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 424 p. — (Europa im Mittelalter 38). Obwohl die Auffassung, Ethnien seien rein soziale Gebilde, in der Forschung allgemein affirmiert wird, gehen Untersuchungen oft unbelegt von ihrer großen Bedeutung für die Sozialverhältnisse des Frühmittelalters aus. Im Zuge der karolingischen Eroberungen des 8. Jahrhunderts in Italien sowie der Erschließung jener...
Routledge, 2016. — 322 p. — (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West). Peter Martyr was one of the central Dominican saints of the thirteenth century, in some cases eclipsing Dominic himself. Born in Verona around 1206 to those with Cathar sympathies, he became a convert to Catholicism. As one of the first generations of Dominicans, he represents aspects of their...