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Margherita Cusani Maletta, la borghese gentildonna (Milano, XV secolo)
Full text linkITALIANO: Per la Lombardia del tardo Medioevo gli studi su doti, assetti patrimoniali, possibilità di azione legale e diritti delle donne sono nel complesso scarsi, dato il panorama delle fonti sfavorevole. Si propone la ricostruzione della vicenda biografica di una donna del ceto medio-alto della società milanese del Quattrocento, Margherita Cusani Maletta. / ENGLISH: In late medieval Lombardy, studies on dowries, patrimonial assets, legal action possibilities, and women’s rights are rather scarce. This research investigates the biography of Margherita Cusani Maletta, a woman from the middle-upper class of the fifteenth century Milanese society
Tradizioni liquide, forme testuali e ambienti di (ri)elaborazione: il caso del cosiddetto Anonimo Vaticano
Full text linkITALIANO: La Historia Sicula del cosiddetto Anonimo Vaticano, intitolata da alcuni manoscritti Chronica
Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii comitis Mileti , è interessante per due motivi: offre una narrazione utile della storia dell’Italia meridionale tra XI e XIII secolo; inoltre, rappresenta un esempio abbastanza tipico di compilazione cronachistica. È priva di un autore e di un titolo sicuro; contiene informazioni parzialmente coincidenti con quelle del cosiddetto Malaterra; ha una tradizione testuale nettamente bipartita, in cui un ramo arriva alla morte di Ruggero I d’Altavilla (1101), il secondo allo scoppio dei Vespri (1282); presenta alcune difformità strutturali; taluni frammenti significativi sono inglobati anche in altri testi. Questo articolo si sofferma sui processi di costruzione aggregativa tipici di molte cronache tardomedievali, caratterizzate da un gradiente di autorialità basso: sono ‘testi liquidi’ per eccellenza, perché si adattano costantemente alle molteplici esigenze di altri cronisti, compilatori e copisti più o meno consapevoli. / ENGLISH: The Historia Sicula of the so-called Anonimus Vaticanus, titled by some manuscripts Chronica
Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii comitis Mileti , is interesting for two reasons: it offers a useful narrative of the history of southern Italy between the 11th and 13th centuries; moreover, it represents a fairly typical example of historiographical compilation. It lacks an author and
a sure title; contains information that partially coincides with the so-called Malaterra; it has a distinctly bipartite textual tradition, in which one branch arrives at the death of Roger I of Altavilla (1101), the second at the beginning of Vespers (1282); has structural inconsistencies; some significant fragments are also incorporated in other texts. This article focuses on the typical processes of aggregative construction of many late medieval chronicles characterized by a low gradient of authorship: they are “liquid texts” par excellence, because they constantly adapt themselves to the multiple needs of other more or less aware chroniclers, compilers, copyists
Constructing Territoriality “From Below”: Collective Action, Micropolitics, and Landscape in the Duero Plateau (Tenth-Eleventh centuries)
Full text linkThe aim of this article is to analyse patterns of territoriality constructed “from below”, based
on evidence drawn from a wide range of territories, which were held together by the presence of local initiatives instead of being linked automatically to the central-authority organisation. As this situation was typical of the Duero Plateau, three case studies have been chosen (Ausín,
Valdesaz, and Palenzuela). An analysis of these cases shows that the territories were shaped around collective action and focused on common goals, mutual defence practices, and the selection of complementary riverside and mountain landscapes. These arenas of local micropolitics were integrated into the encompassing powers, breaking with the early medieval idea of “deterritorialisation”
Sepulcros, iglesias y construcción de paisajes políticos en la Galicia de los siglos IX-XI
Full text linkESPAÑOL: A través del análisis combinado de dos amplios corpus de datos arqueológicos y textuales sobre
enterramientos e iglesias altomedievales en Galicia, este trabajo pretende explorar las dinámicas sociopolíticas que tienen lugar alrededor de los centros de poder local en el paisaje constituidos por el conjunto de pequeña iglesia o monasterio familiar, sepulturas privilegiadas de hueco antropomorfo, y, con frecuencia a partir de ellos, el futuro cementerio parroquial. Esta aproximación arroja nueva luz sobre un amplio grupo de élites locales que entre los siglos IX y XI fundaron y controlaron iglesias en las que fueron enterrados de forma privilegiada frente al resto de miembros de su comunidad. Estos abundantes sarcófagos y tumbas destacadas excavadas en la roca son a menudo la única huella que nos queda de dichas élites locales, frente a la mayor impronta documental de las aristocracias regionales que las absorbieron tiempo después. Esta aproximación cruzada de ambos tipos de registros nos permite también comprender
mejor las formas, pacíficas o conflictivas, en las que se produjo la integración de esos centros de poder locales en la órbita de las aristocracias que conforman el entramado político del reino asturleonés, y en definitiva, la construcción de redes y relaciones que definen los paisajes políticos altomedievales en esta zona del noroeste peninsular. / ENGLISH: Through the combination of two vast databases on archaeological and textual evidence on early
medieval funerary and ecclesiastical sites in Galicia, this paper aims to explore the socio-political landscape dynamics around local powers conformed by small proprietary churches or monasteries with privileged anthropomorphic burials and, related with them, the first parish cemeteries. This new approach shed light on a huge group of local elites that from the ninth to the eleventh centuries founded and controlled churches in which they would be buried in.
This important amount of sarcophagus and rock-cut burials are often the only remain that we have from these social groups, while most of the early medieval written sources refer to the wider regional aristocracies that absorbed the former. The use of both databases allows us to understand the ways, pacific or problematic, of integration of these centres of local power into the aristocratic circle that supported the political structure of the Astur-Leonese kingdom, and ultimately, the creation of a series of relationships that define the early medieval political land-
scapes in the north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula
Local Societies and Relational Agency in Medieval Iberia. Two Avenues for the Study of Subaltern Groups
Full text linkThis book was written in the framework of two research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation focusing on the agency of peasantry and local societies in medieval southern Europe. This introductory paper discusses the goals, approaches, conceptual
framework, and some of the major statements presented in each chapter. For this reason, it introduces the notions of relational agencies and subaltern collective action, as well as micropolitics and the arenas of struggle in which social life occurred. It is argued that these approaches provide a nuanced and multiscale comprehension of preindustrial rural societies, taking into account case studies from the medieval period. Finally, some general trends and proposals for future research are suggested
Unveiling a hidden subject: peasant agency in the Douro river basin (5th-7th centuries)
Full text linkThe peasantry formed the most numerous group in the vast course of history in its dialectical diversity and specificity. However, the peasants’ importance was not matched by an equal research effort from historians. Something especially true during any pre-capitalist context in which the absolute relevance of this social class is shaded by the historiographical fascination about the ruling classes of yore. Hence, the present paper aims to contribute for understanding the protagonism of the “hidden subject” that was the early medieval Iberian peasantry between
the 5 th and 7 th centuries. This class is frequently seem as static or – at most – passive. To frame a clearer picture of such an elusive social group this text presents a regional analysis with the articulation of written and archaeological sources in order to capture the peasant agency in the process of struggle with the aristocratic powers. The main hypothesis is that the process of aristocratic weakening in the Douro river basin during the 5 th century ensured greater autonomy for this region peasants and that between the 6 th and 7 th centuries there is a new onslaught of a renewed aristocracy articulated with the Visigoth state. There was, without a doubt, a partially
successful aristocratic advance, however, I would like to emphasize precisely the resistance imposed by the peasantry in a long-lasting effort to preserve their living conditions
Accogliere, assistere e curare nella Calabria medievale. L’Annunziata di Cosenza nella seconda metà del XV secolo
Full text linkITALIANO: Attraverso il presente lavoro si intende approfondire forma e organizzazione delle attività assistenziali della Calabria medievale, con particolare riferimento alle motivazioni che ne hanno determinato il proliferare, per risolvere i disagi della popolazione locale. È la fondazione dell’ospedale dell’Annunziata di Cosenza (per iniziativa dell’arcivescovo della città, Pirro Caracciolo nel 1481) a rivelare i tratti caratteristici del welfare state calabresenel Medioevo, capace di costruire e sviluppare un complesso sistema di scambi e servizi tra le varie istituzioni del territorio e i diversi settori della popolazione, tutelando la varia umanità che viveva, soggiornava o transitava nelle città e per le strade della regione. / ENGLISH: Through this work we intend to deepen the form and organization of the welfare activities of medieval Calabria, with a particular reference to the reasons that led to their proliferation to solve the hardships of the local population. It is the foundation of the Annunziata hospital in Cosenza (on the initiative of the archbishop of the city, Pirro Caracciolo in 1481) that reveals the characteristic features of the Calabrian welfare state in the Middle Ages, capable of building and developing a complex system of exchanges and services between the various institutions of the territory and the different sectors of the population, protecting the various humanity that lived, stayed or transited in the cities and on the streets of the region
EvoMedio. Rivista interdisciplinare di Studi Medievali. Volume 1
Full text linkEvoMedio. Rivista interdisciplinare di Studi Medievali vuole caratterizzarsi come un prodotto innovativo nel pur ricco panorama editoriale scientifico della medievistica, puntando ad un profilo multidisciplinare. La Rivista adotta una visione ampia e inclusiva del Medioevo, sia dal punto di vista cronologico che geografico, esplorandolo attraverso una varietà di prospettive disciplinari: Archeologia, Architettura, Epigrafia, Geografia, Numismatica, Paleografia, Papirologia, Storia, Storia dell’Arte, Storia della Letteratura, Storia della Medicina, e molte altre, incluse quelle non strettamente umanistiche, finalizzate alla conoscenza e allo studio di questo periodo storico. In quest’ottica, la Rivista si propone anche di promuovere e favorire la convergenza di studi provenienti da diversi ambiti disciplinari: attraverso fascicoli monografici o sezioni tematiche, EvoMedio ambisce a stimolare il dialogo interdisciplinare su specifici argomenti, offrendo un contributo significativo alla comprensione complessiva del Medioevo
Percorsi medievali e umanistici. Per Gian Carlo Alessio
Full text linkITALIANO: Il volume è un omaggio in occasione dell’ottantesimo compleanno di uno dei massimi studiosi del Medioevo latino, autore in particolar modo di fondamentali studi sull’ars dictaminis e, più in generale, sulla retorica: Gian Carlo Alessio. I saggi qui raccolti, offerti da amici e allievi, pur toccando un’ampia gamma di argomenti, si collocano entro i confini della filologia e letteratura medievale e umanistica. / ENGLISH: This volume is a tribute on the occasion of the 80th birthday of one of the foremost scholars of Latin medieval studies, Particularly known for his fundamental contributions to the study of the ars dictaminis and, more generally, of rhetoric: Gian Carlo Alessio. The essays collected here, offered by friends and pupils, while covering a wide range of topics, fall within the boundaries of medieval and humanistic philology and literature
Da Giove Capitolino a San Pietro: Costantino e il tramonto della Roma antica
Full text linkITALIANO: L’articolo prende spunto da due recenti ipotesi. La prima, formulata da C. Parisi Presicce, presenta il colosso della basilica di Massenzio come una rilavorazione della statua di Giove del Tempio del Campidoglio. La seconda, di C. Vollmer, propone di interpretare la
rotonda al fianco sud di San Pietro, poi dedicata a Sant’Andrea, come l’edificio nel quale l’augusto avrebbe progettato di farsi seppellire ad Petrum. Se confermate, queste ipotesi impongono una revisione del diffuso schema storiografico che oppone il disinteresse quasi totale di Costantino per il centro di Roma all’ambizioso programma di fondazioni ecclesiastiche extra moenia. Il saggio discute queste ipotesi inserendole nella più ampia problematica del rapporto tra Costantino e la Roma antica, aprendo nuove piste per affrontare in chiave transdisciplinare le dinamiche della trasformazione del mondo tardoantico. / ENGLISH: The article takes its cue from two recent hypotheses. The first, formulated by C. Parisi Presic-
ce, presents the colossus of Maxentius' basilica as a reworking of the statue of Jupiter in the Capitoline Temple. The second, by C. Vollmer, proposes to interpret the rotunda south of St. Peter’s, later dedicated to St. Andrew, as a building in which the augustus would have planned to be buried ad Petrum. If confirmed, these hypotheses impose a reappraisal of the widespread historiographic scheme that opposes Constantine’s almost total disinterest in the
centre of Rome to his ambitious programme of ecclesiastical foundations extra moenia. The essay discusses these hypotheses by inserting them into the broader issue of the relationship between Constantine and ancient Rome, opening up new avenues to address the dynamics of the transformation of the late antique world from a transdisciplinary perspective