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Pietro Gambacorta and the City of Pisa (1369-92)
No full textThe study of civic cults has acquired a special prominence within the broad field of hagiographical research, offering as it does a way of identifying the religious reference points of a community (whether urban or regional), reconstructing its repertoire of ritual performances, and defining the processes through which the bonds of collective identity were formed. The close relationship, in these civic cults, between sanctity and the ruling authorities ensured that local forms of devotion often furnished an effective instrument for promoting consensus. The example of Pisa demonstrates quite effectively how two events of great local importance — a military victory and the devastating outbreaks of plague — became occasions for the creation of civic forms of devotion
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Biondo Flavio. <i>Italy Illuminated</i>. Vol. 5. Books 1–4. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 20. Ed. and trans., Jeffrey A. White. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. xxvii + 490 pp. index. append. bibl. 36. ISBN: 978–1–586–84255–0. - Catherine J. Castner, ed. and trans. <i><i>Biondo Flavio's</i> Italia Illustrata: <i>Text, Translation, and Commentary</i></i>. Volume 2: Central and Southern Italy. Binghamton: Global Academic Publishing, 2010. xvi + 488 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $36. ISBN: 1–58684–278–9.
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