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The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300
Full text linkWhile Northern and East Central Europe are often considered to have been peripheral parts of medieval Latin Christendom, they nevertheless embraced many of the same cultural impulses found in more central areas. Key among these was the way in which social elites, in the first centuries after the introduction of Christianity, recognized the potential to exploit the cult of saints as a way of legitimizing their own social standing. Taking this thematic focus as its starting point, this volume explores the intersection of religion, power, and the reception and development of new impulses from abroad within Northern and East Central Europe. It does so by comparing and contrasting cults that emerged locally with cults that were imported to the region. Through this comparative overview, the chapters of this volume not only contribute to a more nuanced understanding of these outlying regions, but also shed new light on Latin Christian Europe as a whole
Langue(s) d’Empire et langue(s) impériale(s) dans le royaume Hauteville de Sicile
Full text linkThe issue of multilingualism in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily
is a theme which has been written about extensively: the question of the three “languages of the king” (Greek, Arabic, Latin) has been fascinating enough to stimulate a long historiography - this paper would not reiterate - on the sovereign’s linguistic policy, the nature of its ideology, or on the imperial dimension of its power. We would rather propose a renewed approach on the question
on the basis of the distinction between Imperial languages and languages of Empire that could emphasize the special “imperial” status of Greek and Arabic, and, by contrast, enlighten the least imperial dimension of the Latin
language. This latter conveys definitively less “second-hand imperiality” than the previous ones, at least for the first Hauteville sovereign
Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung Zeitschrift des Mediävistenverbandes. Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (2023): Die ‚Sieben weisen Meister‘ als globale Erzähltradition/The ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ as a Global Narrative Tradition
Full text linkDEUTSCH: Das Themenheft stellt einen der am weitesten verbreiteten Erzählstoffe der Vormoderne in den Mittelpunkt: die ‚Seven Sages of Rome‘ oder ‚Sieben weisen Meister‘. Aus der Zeit vom 11. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert lassen sich im vormodernen Asien, Europa und Nahen Osten Versionen in 30 Sprachen nachweisen, die seine große Bekanntheit belegen. Doch dies ist in der Mediävistik wenig bekannt und wird kaum thematisiert. Die Herausgeberinnen vertreten die Auffassung, dass der Stoff in herausragender Weise geeignet ist, um aktuelle und interdisziplinär relevante Ansätze der Mediävistik und Frühneuzeitforschung aufzugreifen und zusammenzuführen. Dazu zählen Aspekte der Überlieferung, der globalen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung und der Intersektionalitätsforschung. / ENGLISH: The ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ was one of the most widely distributed story matters of premodernity. It was transmitted in at least 30 languages from Arabic to Russian across Asia, Europe and the Middle and Near East from the 11th to the 19th centuries. Nevertheless, this tradition is still little known and rarely researched in Mediaeval Studies. This special issue proposes that the ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ is ripe for rediscovery, and for bringing together and giving new perspectives on current and interdisciplinary approaches in Mediaeval and Early Modern Studies. This includes transmission studies, intersectional analysis and global approaches to literary history
Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung Zeitschrift des Mediävistenverbandes. Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2023): Medieval Animal Studies. Reflexionen, Imaginationen und Praxisformen von Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen im Mittelalter
Full text linkDEUTSCH: Wie positioniert sich die interdisziplinäre Mediävistik zu aktuellen Entwicklungen der ‚Animal Studies‘? Welches Potential haben die Methoden, Theoreme und kritischen Reflexionen der ‚Animal Studies‘ für die Analyse mittelalterlicher Quellen? Und welchen Beitrag können dezidiert mediävistische ‚Animal Studies‘ zu den zeitgenössischen Diskussionen und Konzeptualisierungen leisten? Im Horizont dieser Fragestellungen fokussieren die Studien des Themenhefts aus unterschiedlichen fachwissenschaftlichen Blickrichtungen Reflexionen, Imaginationen und Praxisformen von Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen im Mittelalter und tragen zu einer Historisierung der Konzepte gegenwärtiger ‚Animal Studies‘ bei. / ENGLISH: What is the position of interdisciplinary Medieval Studies within current trends in Animal Studies? What potential do the methods, theorems, and critical reflections of Animal Studies have for the analysis of medieval sources? What contribution can decidedly Medieval Animal Studies make to contemporary discussions and conceptualisations? With these questions in mind, the studies in this issue focus on reflections, imaginations, and forms of practice of human–animal relations in the Middle Ages, which they discuss from different disciplinary perspectives and thus contribute to a historicisation of the concepts of contemporary Animal Studies
Monarchia, signori e feudi nei regni di Sicilia e Napoli (secoli XIII-XV)
Full text linkITALIANO: Muovendo dall’analisi dello spazio politico europeo e mediterraneo di cui furono parte i regni di
Napoli e Sicilia alla fine del medioevo, il saggio indaga il tormentato rapporto tra potere sovrano e potere feudali nei due regni dopo il Vespro. Sono posti in evidenza gli effetti della storia politico-militare sull’evoluzione delle signorie meridionali, il ruolo del papato, l’inserimento della signoria e del feudo nell’impianto dello stato monarchico. / ENGLISH: The essay looks into the troubled relationship between sovereign power and feudal power in the
Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily after the Vespro. Moving from the analysis of the European and Mediterranean political space in which both reigns were embedded, it brings out the repercussions of the political and military history on the evolution of Southern lordships, the role of the
papacy, the placement of lordships and fiefs within the monarchic state
Hebraica Parmensia. Da molti luoghi e tempi. Frammenti di memoria ritrovata. Im memoria di Giuseppe Baruch Sermoneta
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Beni fiscali e attività minerario-metallurgiche nell’Italia centro-settentrionale (secoli VIII-XI)
Full text linkITALIANO: L’articolo intende comporre in una sintesi complessiva i dati archeologici e documentari sulla
produzione mineraria e metallurgica nelle principali aree di giacimenti del regno italico (arco alpino, Toscana compresa l’isola d’Elba) tra VIII e XI secolo, al fine di valutare il livello di controllo e, per quanto possibile, le modalità di gestione di questo settore produttivo da parte del potere pubblico. Un altro tema al centro dell’attenzione sarà la circolazione di materie prime essenziali come i metalli entro la struttura economica che faceva capo al fisco regio, oppure attraverso circuiti propriamente commerciali. Il punto d’arrivo s’individua nella fase di transizione
da un sistema produttivo altomedievale – in cui il ruolo eminente del publicum e le prerogative fiscali sullo sfruttamento dei giacimenti erano probabilmente molto vincolanti – verso la frammentazione dei diritti sulla produzione nelle mani di molteplici soggetti (inoltrato XI secolo). / ENGLISH: The paper intends to compose in an overall synthesis the archaeological and documentary data
on mining and metallurgical production in the main mining areas of the Italic kingdom (Alps, Tuscany including the island of Elba) between the 8th and 11th centuries, in order to assess the level of control and, as far as possible, the way in which this productive sector was managed by the public power. Another focus of attention will be the circulation of essential raw materials such as metals within the economic structure that was under the control of the royal authority, or through properly commercial circuits. The point of arrival is identified in the transition phase
from an early medieval production system – in which the eminent role of the publicum on the exploitation of deposits were probably very binding – towards the fragmentation of production rights in the hands of multiple subjects (late 11th century)
Why fiscal estates matter: some concluding thoughts on the economic importance of public goods
Full text linkITALIANO: L’articolo offre alcuni spunti di riflessione sugli articoli contenuti nella raccolta sui beni fiscali
in Italia (con un contributo sulla media Mosa). Enuclea cinque specifici aspetti che meritano di essere dibattuti: 1) una più o meno restrittiva definizione del concetto di fisco; 2) l’importanza strategica del controllo delle Risorse (come fonti energetiche e minerali) all’interno di queste proprietà fiscali; 3) il problema dell’organizzazione del lavoro e la presenza di corvées sulle proprietà fiscali; 4) il modo in cui circolava la ricchezza, secondo modelli interpretativi alternativi al commercio prima della dissoluzione del potere ottoniano, in Italia, e il ‘cambio di paradigma’ causato dal boom commerciale – e i suoi legami con le città; 5) le conseguenze economiche
complessive, sul medio e lungo termine, della redistribuzione dei beni fiscali nelle mani di altri
possessori. / ENGLISH: This article offers some food for thought based on the articles in the dossier on tax property in Italy (with a contribution on the Middle Meuse). It points out five specific aspects that deserve discussion: 1° the more or less restrictive definition of the concept of fiscus 2° that of the strategic importance of the control of resources (fuel, ore, energy) in these fiscal properties 3° the problem of the organisation of work and the presence of corvée on fiscal properties 4° the way in which wealth circulated, according to interpretative models alternative to trade before the dissolution of the Ottonian order, in Italy, and the paradigm shift caused by the commercial
boom – with its links with cities 5° the overall economic consequences, in the medium and long term, of the redistribution of fiscal properties into the hands of other owners
Una nota sui Memoriali bolognesi come fonte per lo studio della moda nella prima metà del Trecento
Full text linkITALIANO: I Libri Memoriali costituiscono una delle più ricche serie documentarie per la storia di Bologna,
contenendo gran parte degli atti notarili rogati in città tra il 1265 e il Quattrocento inoltrato. Attraverso l’analisi di una selezione di documenti, questo breve contributo intende mettere in luce le potenzialità dei Libri Memoriali come fonte per la storia della produzione, dello scambio e del consumo dei tessuti e di altri oggetti dell’abbigliamento nella Bologna tardo medievale. / ENGLISH:
The Libri Memoriali are one of the richest sets of documents for the history of Bologna, containing the transcription of large part of the notarial deeds drawn in the city from 1265 until well into the fifteenth century. Through the analysis of a selected group of documents, this short essay aims
at highlighting the potential of the Libri Memoriali as a source for the history of the production, exchange and consumption of textiles and other objects of fashion in late medieval Bologna