OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)The author focuses on the urban world to reformulate the question traditionally interpreted in terms of the entrepreneurial freedom of late medieval merchants: even in this context the notion of libertas, rather than ...
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(2024)The author highlights the characteristics of servitude and personal emancipation in the last centuries of the Middle Ages, tracing them not only to their legal dimension but to the decisive influence of economic and social ...
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(2024)The author's contribution is dedicated to the Italian cities of communal tradition, which addresses a theme of long tradition, ideological as well as historiographical, namely the connection between libertas and the 'people' ...
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(2024)The relationship between cities and sovereigns in the kingdoms of southern Italy is investigated by the author from a European perspective, highlighting how libertas was equivalent to the submission of communities to ...
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(2024)Three well-defined nuclei of analysis - the revolts of the barons against the king, the people's movements against the magnates and the peasant uprisings against serfdom - are instead the object of the recognition of the ...
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(2024)The author integrates the analysis of monarchical frameworks by also noting for the development of rural communities a weak use of the concept of freedom as well as a parallel aspiration to political emancipation: the ...
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(2024)The author reviews the history of monarchies and the sources of the practice to highlight how, unlike the experience of Italian municipal cities, the concept of freedom did not represent an omnipresent concept either in ...
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(2024)The author analyzes apostolic letters, conciliar decrees and canon law to highlight how, compared to the salient phase of monarchical affirmation between the 11th and 13th centuries - during which the libertas Ecclesiae ...
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(2024)The author analyzes mature medieval legal thought to highlight, around normative and jurisdictional freedoms, the affirmation of both a doctrine and a practice of the freedom to rule (of the potestas condendi statute) of ...
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(2024)The scrutiny of a present-day notarial document – specifically, the division of inherited real estate assets within a peasant family in the Eastern Liguria – affords an occasion to contemplate the configuration of a modest ...
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(2024)The contribution illustrates the work of a multidisciplinary group of scholars and designers, coordinated by the Author, responsible for drawing up a project for the valorisation of the Swabian-Angevin Fortress of Lucera, ...
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(2024)The author points out some reflections on hydraulic machines for the production of semi-finished wood and stone products between antiquity and the Middle Ages. Particular emphasis is placed on the role that stone cutting ...
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(2024)The contribution, taking inspiration from the context of the city of Leopoli-Cencelle, which has returned the remains of the late medieval public palace, intends to provide some food for thought on this category of buildings ...
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(2024)The stele, donated to the Museum of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona by Monsignor Guido Corbelli in 1894, was already described in the catalog of the Egyptian collection by Giuseppe Botti, in 1955. It belongs to a typology ...
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(2024)Rome and Florence in modern centuries competed as Italian capitals of art, and two of the most appreciated ancient sculptures cannot be excluded from this rivalry: the Venus de’ Medici, exhibited since the 17th century in ...
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(2024)The main aim of this paper is to deal with the “problem” of residuality in archaeology, with a particular focus on pottery assemblages, starting from the medieval contexts of Shobak. Shobak represents a suitable case-study ...
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(2024)The contribution proposes a reflection on the possibilities of framing ceramic artefacts of daily and common use through their technological characteristics, taking as an example hand-made geometrically painted ceramics ...
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(2024)This reflection, which I dedicate to my friend Guido Vannini, deals with themes at the heart of his scientific way, his method and our relations and exchanges over the past decades. Christian archaeology is by far the ...
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(2024)The contribution intends to present the study of an unpublished fragment of an inscribed ciborium, found during excavations conducted in 2001 by the then Archaeological Superintendence for Puglia in the area of the former ...
