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Law Books and Professional Law Libraries in the Roman Inventories and Catalogues of the Early 17th Century
No full textThe essay examines the private libraries of a group of judges active in the main criminal courts of the Papal State during the 17th century. Among them is Prospero Farinacci, one of the period’s most famous penologists. Based on new unpublished sources from Roman Archives (post-mortem and sales inventories, letters, guides), this article will examine the patrimony of a homogeneous professional group (in terms of their careers and family ties) and highlight the history of the individual or family collections, the relationships between libraries and scientific and professional activities with particular attention to the coexistence of printed books and manuscripts, social practices of display and use of the library itself, also in relation to other forms of patronage and cultural investment, the symbolic and economic value of the collections, and the relationship between libraries, individual reputations and family strategies during the accumulation and transmission phases
Simona Feci & Laura Schettini (a cura di), La Violenza contre le donne nella storia. Contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli xv-xxi)
Full text linkL’ouvrage, publié sous la direction de Simona Feci et Laura Schettini, est le prolongement d’un colloque organisé par la Società Italiana delle Storiche (Société italienne des historiennes, association sœur de Mnémosyne) à Rome en 2015. Nos collègues italiennes souhaitaient apporter un regard historien sur les violences faites aux femmes, sujet qui connaissait alors, et en particulier autour de la notion de féminicide, une forte résonnance dans la péninsule. Le sujet n’était heureusement pas ..
Donne che (rac)contano. Intersezioni, percorsi tra gender studies e public history (Dialoghi della Public History 4 ; 23 novembre 2020)
No full textAlla ricchezza degli studi e all’impatto metodologico dei gender studies sullo sguardo storiografico non sembra ancora corrispondere un’adeguata restituzione dei risultati della ricerca al pubblico, e molte iniziative appaiono scollate dal mondo e dagli esiti del lavoro storiografico. Eppure, pubblicazioni e iniziative recenti hanno messo in luce quanto fruttuosa e innovativa possa essere l’intersezione tra public history e gender studies. Di questo intreccio dialogano Aurora Savelli e Simona Feci
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
Orphaned siblings and noble families in baroque Rome
No full textThe essay investigates the impact of the premature death of the father on brother and sister groups in noble Roman families of the seventeenth century. More specifically, it explores how this loss reflected on the biographical itineraries of individual members of the sibling unit; how adelphic relations between the orphans were reformulated according to order of birth and first born or cadet status, age, and sex; and what forms of solidarity and competition were engendered by the loss of a father. Since demographic historians have shown that orphanage at an early age is an important variable, the author argues that it cannot be overlooked – as historians have done so far – in studies on family relations, and especially when reconstructing childhood and adolescence experiences. The author’s investigation is mainly based on qualitative sources (letters, guardianship memorandums, account books, etc.) from the archives of the families selected for examination. These documents bear witness to the strength of kinship relationships, which provide support to the orphans during their lives, and to the role of proximity vs. distance in the evolution of inter-sibling bonds
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Ruolo politico e funzione economica di un ufficio: l’interposizione dei decreti a Roma tra Cinque e Seicento
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