Ravenna was one of the most significant administrative, political, and religious centres of the late antique period. This book focuses on the period between the transfer of the imperial court to Ravenna (402) and the last western emperor Romulus Augustus' deposition by the Germanic commander Odoacer (476), a period when Ravenna was the seat of western emperors. The book is premised on the author's conviction that individual surviving examples of architecture, along with their decoration, sarcophagi, ivory, and gold objects, can be best understood not only by examining their historical context and iconography, but also looking at the very material of these objects and how their production was organised. The book therefore focuses primarily on craftsmen and their traditions, and deliberate breaks with tradition, and on the way workmen moved about the late antique world and thereby fostered the exchange and spread of technology and artistic models. It thus present Ravenna not as an isolated phenomenon (as Ravenna is very often presented in the literature) but as one of many players in the political, ecclesiastical, and social games of the late antique world.

Ravenna: Sedes Imperii: Artistic Trajectories in the Late Antique Mediterranean (I Libri Di Viella: Arte / Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensia, 8)

Arts & Photography

Frantova, Zuzana

History & Criticism

Viella - Liberia Editrice

Confessionalization on the Frontier: The Balkan Catholics Between Roman Reform and Ottoman Reality (Interadria: Culture Dell'adriatico, 22)

Molnár Antal

Religion & Spirituality

La linea d'ombra indaga gli "oscuri" decenni che intercorrono fra il ritorno della corte pontificia a Roma dopo il periodo avignonese (1378) e la conclusione dello scisma, con il definitivo ingresso in citta di Martino V Colonna (1420). Sempre percepito come "di transizione" fra Medioevo e Rinascimento, questo periodo turbolento e insicuro e pero anche quello in cui la citta di Roma ricostruisce il proprio ruolo e gli strumenti visivi e letterari che lo esplicitano e lo visualizzano, di volta in volta ritratta quale cumulo di rovine abitate da banditi e bestie selvagge, o come luogo di impareggiabile fascino e conservazione di memoria. Il volume include studi in piu di un campo "tecnico": la scultura e i monumenti funerari, la pittura e i nomi degli artisti, la precoce attivita nei monasteri, la citta gia meta di viaggio e di esplorazione dell'Antico per i grandi artisti del primo Rinascimento.

La Linea D'ombra: Roma 1378-1420 (I Libri Di Viella. Arte, 28) (Italian Edition)

The book describes the structure of the Hungarian queenship in the age of the Arpads (11-13th centuries), and reveals the nature of the relationship between the institution of the kingship and the queenship. Several features in the institution of queenship would appear to be parallel to that of kings; after all, the queens had estates (just like the kings) with serfs (as on the kings' lands). The legal status and structure of the order of these serfs were the same as in the kings' household. The queen had a court (as did the king), there were similar dignitaries in both courts, and the queen even had a chancellery to issue charters in her name (similarly to the king). Yet, while the individual elements of the two institutions appear to mirror each other, there were significant differences in their quantity and importance, those of the kings having a clear advantage over the queens'. This book aims to clarify these essentially different structures. A major finding of the book is to point out the place of the institution of queenship: it was not parallel to, but, rather, within the authority of the king. The institution of queenship remained within the boundaries set upon it by the kings' authority throughout the age of the Arpads. As a result, the institution of queenship did not benefit from the accumulation of external influences brought along by the queens of various foreign dynasties. Rather, just as the power of the kings, it was basically shaped by factors characteristic of institutional developments within Hungary.

The Arpads and Their Wives: Queenship in Early Medieval Hungary 1000-1301 (Viella Historical Research, 12)

History

Zsoldos, Attila

Europe

Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, it is not. And yet, the experimental project Migrating Art Historians sought to delve into this impossibility. Journeying by foot over more than 1500km, twelve modern pilgrims - students and scholars from Masaryk University - reached some of the most impressive artistic monuments of medieval France. One year later, this book presents their intellectual, human, and art historical theoretical know-how, transformed by the experience of their bodies. In this context, exhausted and activated bodies became instruments asking new questions to medieval artworks and sources. Structured as a walk along pilgrimage routes, this book presents firstly the landscape, followed by liminal zones, before leading the reader inside medieval churches and ultimately towards the sacred. Original scientific art historical research combines with personal engagement. What emerges is the subject confronted with the experience of medieval art.

Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Ways (Convivia, 2)

Terracina Nel Medioevo: La Cattedrale E La Citta: Atti Del Convegno Internazionale Di Studi Terracina, 9-10 Febbraio 2018 (I Libri Di Viella. Arte) (Italian Edition)

Alvaro, Corrado

Acconci, Alessandra

Angelucci, Davide

Barbisan, Christian

Betti, Fabio

Architecture

Lettere Dal Carcere: 1939-1942; Storia corale si una famiglia antifascista (La Storia. Temi, 72) (Italian Edition)

Natoli, Aldo

The Jewish Question in the Territories Occupied by Italians: 1939-1943 (Viella Historical Research, 16)

Caviglia, Daniele

Orsina, Giovanni

Sica, Emanuele

Bucarelli, Massimo

Micheletta, Luca

Natale, Luisa

Parlato, Giuseppe

Manojlovic Pintar, Olga

Pizzuti, Anna

Rossi, Gianni Scipione

Sinani, Shaban

Terekhova, Natalia

Capuzzo, Ester

Petrovic Todosijevic, Sanja

Ungari, Andrea

Vignato, Filippo

Clementi, Marco

D'Angeli, Roberto

Dell'era, Tommaso

Duka, Valentina

Fenoglio, Luca

Giusti, Maria Teresa

This book investigates the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the late medieval and early modern period from the perspective of sexual and gender transgressions. The first part analyses normative discourses and literary texts in the Arabic, Turkish Ottoman and Spanish worlds, highlighting continuities and fractures. The second part explores concrete interactions between Muslim and Christians, reconstructed through the study of criminal sources from the archives of the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions. The essays collected here reveal to what extent reflecting on sexual and gender non-conformity constitutes a vantage point for reconstructing the cross-cultural interactions between Christianity and Islam in the Mediterranean world. On the one hand, proscribed sexual behaviours and gendered performances opened the possibility for connections in semi-clandestine networks of sociability that would have been inconceivable in other settings. On the other, cross-religious sexual and emotional exchanges sometimes favoured processes of religious hybridisation or the development of skeptic attitudes towards institutionalised faiths.

Mediterranean Crossings: Sexual Transgressions in Islam and Christianity 10th-18th Centuries (Viella Historical Research) (Italian Edition)

Grassi, Umberto

Kuru, Selim Sirri

Lavenia, Vincenzo

Movellan, Tomas A. Mantecon

Mott, Luiz

Americas

Il libro indaga l'elemento distintivo e caratterizzante della vita culturale italiana: la nascita della prima classe intellettuale laica dell'intera Europa e il fondamentale ruolo che i laici esercitarono sulla cultura. Coprendo un arco di tempo di oltre quattro secoli e mezzo, dalla conquista carolingia al Duecento, lo studio offre la prima analisi esaustiva degli scritti in latino prodotti nel regno d'Italia. Esaminando i testi religiosi, letterari e giuridici, ma non solo, Ronald G. Witt mostra come i cambiamenti presenti in questi testi siano il risultato dell'interazione del pensiero con le tendenze economiche, politiche e religiose della societa italiana, nonche con le influenze intellettuali provenienti dall'estero. Il punto di arrivo della ricerca e costituito dall'insorgere dell'Umanesimo nell'Italia settentrionale: proprio il precoce sviluppo di una classe intellettuale laica e la sua partecipazione alla cultura latina incoraggiarono infatti la nascita di quel movimento culturale che, da ultimo, avrebbe rivoluzionato l'intera Europa.

L'eccezione Italiana: L'intellettuale Laico Nel Medioevo E L'origine Del Rinascimento 800-1300 (Storia. Saggi, 8) (Italian Edition)

Witt, Ronald G.

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