Medieval Italy : texts in translation /
"Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Latín Italiano Arabic Español Hebrew Griego Antiguo |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The countryside and its dependencies. Land leasing and legal status in southern Italy : three texts (964-86) ; Land, money, and grain : two customary leases in the Diocese of Florence (1073, 1115) ; A bequest of town and countryside properties in Eboli (1152) ; Sharecropping in the Sienese contado : three texts (1232, 1257, 1293) ; Bonvesin della Riva on Milan and its contado (1288) ; Giovanni Villani on food shortages and famine in central Italy (1329-30, 1347-48) ; A rebellion in Firenzuola (1402)
- Spheres and structures of power : ecclesial and secular. The bishopric of Florence and the foundation of San Miniato al Monte (1013) ; Proprietary religious houses in the Diocese of Salerno (1047-92) ; The commune and Bishop of Florence forbid the alienation of ecclesiastical property (1159) ; Episcopal lordship : scenes from the life of Ubaldo da Gubbio (ca. 1160) ; Federigo Visconti's pastoral visitation to Sardinia (1263) ; Origins of the commune of Cremora : three texts (996-1097) ; Mechanisms of communal government : five texts (1143-84) ; Empire and cities in the late twelfth century : the Peace of Constance and its aftermath : two texts (1183, 1216) ; Twelfth-century administration of Corleone : two texts (1182, 1178-83) ; Giovanni Villani on the ascent of the popolo in Florence (1250, 1293) ; The standard bearer of Lucca appeals to local patriotism (1397)
- The commercial revolution. A Genoese apprenticeship contract (1221) ; Guild regulations for the oil vendors and grocers of Florence (1318) ; The Venetian mint after the Black Death : three texts (1353) ; State-run shipping in Venice (1398) ; International networks in the Mediterranean (1400) ; Transportation of commodities (1401) ; Two cargo manifests (1400, 1399) ; A run on a bank (1400) ; Debt remission (1400) ; Trade and diplomacy (1400) ; Protectionist legislation (1400) ; Usury : six texts (1161-1419).
- Violence, warfare, and peace. The destruction of the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno (mid-twelfth century) ; The Genoese capture of Almería (1147) ; Ibn al-Athīr on Sicilian Muslims under Christian rule : the 'Complete testament of history' (twelfth century) ; Giovanni Cadagnello on factional strife in Piacenza (1232-35) ; Giovanni Villani on the origins of the Guelfs and Ghibellines in Florence (ca. 1300) ; Vendetta in fourteenth-century Siena (1321-46) ; Charles of Anjou on the battle of Tagliacozzo (1268) ; Giovanni Regina on Angevin military success against the Empire (1328) ; Matteo Villani on peace and the common good (fourteenth century) ; A mercenary soldier : John Hawkwood (1369) ; Alliance in exile between the radical Ciompi and magnates against the Florentine guild republic (1379) ; Lordships and city-state rivalry in Lombardy and the Veneto (1390-1405) ; Maritime warfare and piracy : three texts on Genoa and Venice (1380-1403)
- Law and order. Property rights and the legal system in Salerno (1044) ; Roman law and legal studies : three texts (ca. 1124-66) ; Odofredus announces his course on Roman law at Bologna (ca. 1230) ; The laws of King Roger II (ca. 1140s) ; A peace contract (1274) ; Regulating consumption and ritual behavior : four texts (1289-1343) ; Regulation of brothels in Florence : two texts (thirteenth century and 1346) ; The long arm of the Florentine law : two texts (1343, 1345) ; Bartolus of Sassoferrato on the making of citizens (fourteenth century) ; A trial for witchcraft at Todi (1428) ; A question of identity in Venetian Crete (1438)
- The build environment. Incastellamento : two texts from Verona (906, 923) ; A bath in southwest Italy (1047) ; Bishop Daibert's order on the height of towers in Pisa (1090) ; Ibn Jubayr's account of Messina and Palermo (1184-85) ; The baptistry of Parma : fourteen texts (1196-1321) ; Charles of Anjou on the foundation of a Cistercian monastery near Scurcola (Abruzzo, 1274) ; Foundation of a French monastery in Abruzzo : Santa Maria della Vittoria (1277) ; A contract for stonework for the monastery of Santa Maria di Realvalle (near Naples, 1279) ; Jewish and Greek patronage in Apulia : two texts (1313/14, 1372/73) ; Ordering the Piazza del Campo of Siena (1309) ; On the city walls and build environment of Pavia (1330)
- Rome, the papacy, and papal politics ; Matilda of Canossa, papal patron : two texts (eleventh century) ; The marvels of Rome (1143) ; Arnald of Brescia at Rome (ca. 1162-66) ; Innocent III to the hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia (1208) ; A dispute with Pope Innocent III over customary rights in Alatri (1212) ; Piero della Vigna's invective against the pope (mid-thirteenth century) ; The jubilee year of 1300 : three texts (1300) ; Cola di Rienzo and fourteenth-century Rome : twelve texts (fourteenth century) ; The pacification of the patrimony of St. Peter (1355-59).
- Disease and medical practice. Medicine in southern Italy : six texts (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) ; Matteo Villani on plague and malaria (1357-58) ; The curriculum in arts and medicine at Bologna (early fifteenth century) ; Dissection at Bologna (early fifteenth century) ; Surgery at Bologna (1405)
- Varieties of religious experience : the Christian tradition. The Pataria : Andrea da Strumi's passion of Arialdo (late eleventh century) ; Miracles of Bishop Giovanni Cacciafronte of Vicenza (1226) ; Life of Raymond "the palmer" of Piacenza (1212) ; Life of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1246) ; Franco Sacchetti on "modern saints" (ca. 1365) ; The humiliati : five texts (1184-thirteenth century) ; Albertanus of Brescia : sermon to a confraternity (1250) ; The confraternity of Misericordia Maggiore in Bergamo : three texts (1282-1362) ; Civic veneration of the saints at Siena : six texts (1326-39) ; Opicino de Canistris : confessions of a parish priest (1336)
- Marriage, family, and children. Family and marriage in Lombard Salerno : three texts (1008-78) ; Geoffrey Malaterra on the marriage of Matilda and Raymond of Toulouse : two texts (ca. 1080) ; Frederick II's legislation on adultery and prostitution (1231) ; The 'Customs of Salerno' on dowries (1251) ; Disputed marriage in Bologna (ca. late thirteenth century) ; Trees of consanguinity and affinity (ca. 1310-30) ; Marriage, family, and children in the Datini family : nine texts (1375-1401) ; Marriage, dowry, and remarriage in the Sassetti household (1384-97) ; Family and children in the 'Libro di Ricordi' of Luca da Panzano (1425-46)
- Education and erudition. Giovanni Villani on the schools of Florence (late 1330s) ; Schooling for a girl (1399, 1402) ; Grammar school : two texts (1360s, 1406) ; Learning to read : 'La tavola' (ca. mid-fourteenth century) ; Learning to Latinize : 'Donadello' (ca. mid-fourteenth century) ; Learning to reckon : Leonardo Fibonacci's 'Book of Abbaco' (1202; revised 1228) ; Universitas : a papal bull in favor of the University of Bologna (1220) ; Duties of the rectors of the Universitates at Bologna (1317-47) ; Rules governing booksellers at Bologna (1317-47) ; Frederick II 'On the art of hunting with birds' (ca. 1428) ; A graduation sermon of Robert of Anjou, King of Naples (fourteenth century)
- Social memory, history, commemoration. A bilingual Jewish tombstone inscription in Oria (eighth century) ; Composite chronicles from Bari (ca. 1000-1117) ; Will of Docibilis I of Gaeta (906) ; Foundation of a monastery in Byzantine Calabria (1053/4) ; 'The scroll of genealogy of Ahimaaz ben Paltiel : Jewish learning, myth, and ideals in an uncertain Salentine world (1054) ; Henry of Rimini's paean to Venice (ca. 1300) ; Four Bolognese wills (1337) ; 'Chronicle of Parthenope' (Naples, fourteenth century) ; Philipoctus de Caserta's song text on Louis, Duke of Anjou (ca. 1382) ; Gift-giving in Paduan churches : four texts (1374-1405) ; Church inventories from Cortona : two texts (1429)
- Chronology
- Maps
- Genealogical tables
- Medieval popes, ca. 950-1430.