Décapitées: Trois femmes dans l'Italie de la Renaissance

History

Crouzet-Pavan, Élisabeth

Maire Vigueur, Jean-Claude

Europe

ALBIN MICHEL

<p>Hidden by the ancient city and by the extravagances of the baroque period, medieval Rome has for long suffered undeserved discredit. From the time of the Renaissance, the prevailing image of Rome was of a city sunk in neglect amidst the scattered ruins of antiquity. Numerous observers took pleasure in stressing the greed, narrowness of spirit and ignorance of medieval Romans and in contrasting their supposed failings with the heroic virtues of their distant forebears. However, the Eternal City and its inhabitants merit a far different approach. Medieval Rome needs to be studied anew and to be seen as an equal to the other great cities of communal Italy: Florence, Milan and Venice. This is the challenging task which Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur undertook in writing this book which brings to life the largely unknown city of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. This broad-ranging study tells the story of Rome during the communal period: barons rub shoulders with leaders of the people, great landowners with agricultural labourers, rich merchants with cardinals and artists, against a backdrop of ancient architectural remains, of medieval farms, of gorgeous religious ceremonies and of unrestrained local festivals. The book provides a detailed and engaging picture which, eschewing cliches and preconceptions, recaptures the Middle Ages in all its colours.</p>

The Forgotten Story: Rome in the Communal Period (Viella History, Art and Humanities Collection, 2)

Viella - Liberia Editrice

<p>This volume aims to investigate the complex theme of social mobility in medieval Italy both by comparing Italian research to contemporary international studies in various European contexts, and by analysing a broad range of themes and specific case studies. Medieval social mobility as a European phenomenon, in fact, still awaits a systematic analysis, and has seldom been investigated iuxta propria principia in social, political and economic history. The essays in the book deal with a number of crucial problems: how is social mobility investigated in European and Mediterranean contexts? How did classic mobility channels such as the Church, officialdom, trade, the law, the lordship or diplomacy contribute to shaping the many variables at play in late medieval societies, and to changing - and challenging - inequality? How did movements and changes in social spaces become visible, and what were their markers? What were the dynamics at the heart of the processes of social mobility in the many territorial contexts of the Italian peninsula?</p>

Social Mobility in Medieval Italy (1100-1500) (Viella Historical Research)

Dyer, Christopher

Poloni, Alma

Gamberini, Andrea

Tanzini, Lorenzo

Menant, François

Monnet, Pierre

Milani, Giuliano

Lazzarini, Isabella

Carocci, Sandro

Senatore, Francesco

Silvestri, Alessandro

Terenzi, Pierluigi

Buylaert, Frederik

Collavini, Simone M

Cortese, Maria Elena

de Divitiis, Bianca

Della Misericordia, Massimo

Ferente, Serena

Geens, Sam

Igual Luis, David

Petralia, Giuseppe

Schena, Olivetta

Tognetti, Sergio

Viella

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