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(2024)Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the economy of Sardinia (which was then divided into four kingdoms or giudicati: Cagliari, Arborea, Torres, and Gallura) was characterized by a limited use of currency, which was ...
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(2024)In late medieval Marseille, a commercial hub where market forces largely determined labourers’ income, a significant segment of the workforce was paid partly or fully in non-monetized currencies. Hard bargained between ...
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(2024)From 1792 to 1795, the war absorbed half of the French state budget at a time when the fiscal situation was disastrous. The political authorities decided to set up a managed economy to support production, supply the armies ...
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(2024)In the late medieval and early modern Southern Low Countries, servile work gradually disappeared in most lordships. This contribution researches how and why unfree labour persisted in a minority of seigneuries. The main ...
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(2024)The monetisation of exchanges tends to favour economic development, yet many forms of payment persisted throughout the preindustrial era despite rapid growth. Services in particular were remunerated in a variety of forms ...
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(2024)This research, which focuses on a comparison between early modern France and Italy, deals with datio in solutum, i.e. the transfer of goods in settlement of a monetary debt. After illustrating its essential features, the ...
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(2024)The paper aims at clarifying the characterisation and the role played by in-kind payments in wages’ composition both in the cities and in the countryside in Eighteenth century Northern Italy. Case studies mainly from ...
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(2024)«Alternatives to money» have a long history in Western extractive industry, extending to the 20th century. Before cash wages became a requirement of law, miners received their earnings in varieties of commodity and fiat ...
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(2024)The rejection of barter outside of monetised exchanges goes hand in hand with an apprehension of this practice as a ‘primitive’ mode of exchange, and proclaims the 'modernity of money'. At the heart of monetary economies, ...
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(2024)In the relationship between bishop Atto and the Pistoiese people, two periods should be distinguished: the one during his life (1133-1153) characterized by political-economic conflict culminating with the excommunication ...
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(2024)The chasuble is the liturgical vestment of the bishop and priest, worn to celebrate Mass. The two chasubles of Atto presented and described in the contribution are mentioned by Manetti, Dondoli and Vitoni. Vitoni reports ...
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(2024)In December 2019 the canonical recognition and the multidisciplinary study of the human remains of sant’Atto da Pistoia († 1153) took place in the cathedral of San Zeno in Pistoia. The investigation, which continued in the ...
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(2024)The main subject of the paper is the body of St. Act observed from different points of view that, despite their differences and specificities, interpenetrate and complement each other: the burial methods related to the ...
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(2024)The paper deals with the architectural commissions of Atto, during the thirty years in which the religious was first prior general of the Vallombrosani and then bishop of Pistoia (1125-1153). The churches that still have ...
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(2024)The paper critically retraces the twentieth-century Pistoiese historiography dedicated to the figure of Bishop Atto, highlighting its evolution from a prevalent interest in the political dynamics connected to the birth of ...
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(2024)Starting from XVII century many works were written with the aim to emphasizing the figure of Atto, a Vallumbrosan monk and bishop of Pistoia, canonized in 1605 thanks to the involvement of the Vallumbrosan order and the ...
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(2024)The current article examines for the first time the tradition of Atto’s Vita sancti Iohannis Gualberti (BHL 4398). The identified manuscripts are analysed in their historical context: motivations behind the copying processes ...
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(2024)The paper examines the Vita s. Iohannis Gualberti by Atto, reconstructing its genesis and fortune. Probably the author wrote this hagiography when he was abbot and before becoming bishop of Pistoia. He re-elaborated the ...
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(2024)The paper traces a biographical profile of Atto, a monk, major Vallombrosan abbot and bishop of Pistoia who lived during the first half of the twelfth century. On the basis of the Vitae derived from an initial narrative ...
