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Chapter Il ruolo del commercio internazionale fra Oriente ed Occidente nel processo di cristianizzazione. Il caso dei Petici e dell’Abruzzo. Alcuni appunti
(2024)
This article explores the intertwined dynamics of trade, religion, and geography through the lens of the Petici family, prominent merchants engaged in long-distance trans- Mediterranean commerce during the Roman Empire. ...
Chapter Prolusione
(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, ...
Chapter Come si rende visibile l’omo-bi-transfobia? Nodi critici, sfide e riflessioni a partire da una ricerca empirica
(2023)
This contribution intends to reflect on the attempt by social research in Italy to put the spotlight on violence and discrimination against LGBT+ people. The analysis is mainly based on two recent empirical research works: ...
A partire da «Underworld»
(2020)
The volume is a commentary on Don DeLillo’s hypertrophic novel Underworld (1997). Starting from the analysis of the text – which intertwines several plots, locations and point of view –, Nicola Turi retraces the entire ...
The Mahanubhavs
(2005)
The ascetic, devotional sect of the Mahanubhavs -Those of the greatexperience - arose, like the much more popular bhakti movement ofthe Vårkaris centred in Pandharpur, in thirteenth century Maharastra.If in the beginning ...
Chapter Sepulcros, iglesias y construcción de paisajes políticos en la Galicia de los siglos IX-XI
(2024)
Through the combination of two vast databases on archaeological and textual evidence on early medieval funerary and ecclesiastical sites in Galicia, this paper aims to explore the socio-political landscape dynamics around ...
Giuseppe Dessì tra traduzioni e edizioni
(2013)
With the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Dessí’s birth approaching, in 2009, the Committee in charge of the celebrations launched in a widespread dissemination activity of the writer's work in many European countries. And ...
Chapter Social mobility in the towns and countryside of Late Medieval Crown of Aragon (c. 1300- c. 1550): sources and methodological approaches
(2025)
This chapter deals with the sources and methodologies available to study dynamics of social mobility in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon. We discuss the strengths and limitations of three different kind of sources: fiscal ...
Chapter La slavistica e le arti
(2024)
The article offers an overview of the scholarly publications by Italian Slavists that appeared during the period 1991-2021 on to the subject of Slavic studies and the arts
Le vestigia dei gesuati
(2020)
The book analyses the history of the Jesuat congregation, highlighting the elements of connection and comparison with the social contexts, then describing the origin and the most ancient events of the female branch of the ...
Archeologia Pubblica in Toscana
(2011)
Can archaeology be considered a factor of socio-economic development for civil society? This, in short, is the question underlying the first national workshop devoted to Public Archaeology (Archeologia Pubblica in Toscana: ...
Chapter Le concezioni del lavoro nel Tanakh e nell’Antico Testamento
(2024)
In the Jewish Bible as well as in the Christian Old Testament books agriculture was the mainstay of the Israelite economy both in villages and cities. Working the land and herding was an anthropological given; nevertheless ...
Chapter Paesaggi di resistenza nell’Italia carolingia. Spazi della solidarietà e luoghi della giustizia nei ‘processi di libertà’
(2024)
The essay examines a dossier of placita from Carolingian Italy and analyses them from the perspective of the relationship between local societies and places of justice. In this perspective, it emphasises how the action of ...
Chapter Intelligenza Artificiale in Higher Education: applicazioni, sfide e rischi
(2024)
This contribution represents a synthesis of the literature review conducted on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education, with particular attention to orientation and human learning processes. The ...
Chapter Financing a rebellious city. Social change, revolts, and inequality among the fiscal elite in fourteenth-century Bruges
(2025)
The fourteenth century was a tumultuous period. Europe was disrupted by frequent uprisings. Historians attribute these events to rising inequality. Conversely, the impact of medieval revolts on inequality has remained ...
Struttura e costruzione / Structure and Construction Nuova edizione / New Edition
(2012)
This book explores several aspects of the variegated relationship that connects the operational principles of a structure to its translation into written form, between the laws that govern its structural rationale and the ...
Scienza e arte
(2014)
During the creative act, the artist and the scientist both proceed through the decoding and recomposition of the realities they observe. Based on this method correspondence, art and science offer tools to study the inner ...
Chapter Economic valuation of coastal blue carbon stock’s dynamics. An study in NW Spain using land cover transitions and InVEST
(2024)
Economic valuation of ecosystem services stands as a critical element in comprehending the benefits derived from natural capital and guiding policymakers worldwide. Among these services, the regulation of CO2 fluxes is ...
Sebastiano Ricci impresario d’opera a Venezia nel primo Settecento
(2015)
Sebastiano Ricci was not only one of the greatest Italian and international painters of the eighteenth century, but an opera impresario and a set designer. Thanks to unpublished archival documents, this book reconstructs ...
Chapter An apparent paradox: wool as an alternative currency for merchants and weavers in Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in the 15th century
(2024)
This article examines the use of wool as an alternative currency in Dubrovnik in the first half of the 15th century. The actors of this practice were Catalan merchants who advanced wool to local weavers. In return, the ...
Chapter Giovanni Cherubini storico delle campagne
(2025)
Il contributo evidenzia come il grande campo di interesse di Giovanni Cherubini per la storia delle campagne medievali non possa essere inquadrato nella storia dell’agricoltura ma in quella della storia delle comunità umane ...
Understanding Chefchaouen
(2020)
The medina of Chefchaouen represents an architectural heritage of great value and its building culture constitutes a repertoire of knowledge to be safeguarded as an expression of cultural diversity in the relationship ...
Chapter Reading and writing for success: literacy, knowledge and social mobility
(2025)
This contribution examines the nexus between literacy and social mobility during the late medieval period. Proceeding from an analysis of autobiographical Italian primary sources, it concentrates on patterns of presentation ...
Chapter Qualità del processo produttivo nell’industria della carne: le debolezze della filiera, le ricadute sul lavoro
(2024)
The paper aims at analyzing the critical aspects of the meat supply chain, focusing on its weakest links, in particular, on the deplorable effects of the cost reduction policies imposed in the chain itself by the big ...
Honos alit artes. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri. I. La formazione del diritto comune
(2014)
The articles collected in the book offer insights on major aspects that determined the success and development of the ”ius commune”, progressively spread out across Europe, and from Europe to those parts of the world that ...
Enrico Fermi a Firenze
(2019)
Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938, taught at the Royal University of Florence. Fermi's stay in Florence was short and only lasted two academic years (1924/25 and 1925/26); during those years, he taught "Mathematical ...
Chapter Un approccio umanistico al lavoro digitale. Riflessioni a margine
(2024)
The essay analyzes the humanistic approach of Del Punta to digital technologies and his proposals for the development of work in the digital economy. Technological change is not a homogeneous phenomenon, but strongly ...
Prospettive nello studio del lessico italiano
(2008)
The Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Society of Italian Linguistics and Philology (SILFI), «Prospects in the study of Italian vocabulary» (Florence, 14-17 June 2006), comprise 88 contributions by ...
La consegna dei testimoni tra letteratura e critica
(2009)
At bottom, youth also – and perhaps primarily – serves this purpose: to make room for the other, that is deconstructing oneself with a view to a reconstruction that is always implied in such a perspective. Moreover, those ...
«In questo picolo libretto»
(2020)
In the second half of the XVth century, before the diplomatic balances that led to the birth of the regional states, the Italian rulers, in need of strategies to promote their public image, made their nuptials a powerful ...
Chapter Leopardi e il letamaio. Note stilistiche su Fiori italiani
(2024)
The article focuses on a fundamental principle of Meneghello’s writing: the interactions. For this purpose, it analyses some passages from Fiori italiani and explores their thematic and stylistic structure.
Chapter Il lavoro come arte: William Morris e la riscoperta del lavoro artigiano
(2024)
Work plays a central role in the reflections of William Morris. According to Morris, industrial society is based on an organization of labor that debases the human being, reduced to a machine among machines, while art and ...
Chapter Il lavoro in Lukács
(2024)
The essay deals with the category of work in Lukács. Lukács has been interested in work since his earliest works. The work where he directly addresses the problem of work is History and Class Consciousness. In this work ...
Chapter Modeling of flow patterns and microbiological parameters for hazard assessment of bathing waters affected by combined sewer overflows
(2024)
ARPA Puglia carried out a numerical study to simulate the evolution of the turbidity plume geometry and to describe the bacterial dispersion caused by the discharge of a mixture of raw sewage and surface runoff from the ...
Chapter Motivazioni e inconscio nelle organizzazioni lavorative. Percorsi psicoanalitici
(2024)
Taking into account the complexity and variety of psychoanalysis today, the author first investigates the subjective motivations for work and the individual ways of living working relationships. Noting, then, that most of ...
Tessuti di seta tra Firenze e il Levante (ca. 1350-1550)
(2023)
This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer ...
Chapter Il codice, la materia, il derma. Scritture dei corpi in Luigi Meneghello
(2024)
This essay aims to analyse the representations of the body in Luigi Meneghello’s literary production, specifically focusing on three aspects: the materiality of language and the morphological ontology of thought; corporeal ...
Chapter Il lavoro come storia. Il contributo marxista di Antonio Labriola
(2024)
The script addresses the role of the theme of work in Labriola's thought, and attempts to demonstrate how this can be assumed as the key to all of his Marxist reflection. "Self-government of work", construction of an ...
Chapter A Network to develop the use of web archives: Three outcomes of the ResPaDon project
(2024)
Web archives represent a huge opportunity for new types of research, offering possibilities for mining and analysis in many scientific disciplines. However, technical, legal, and methodological barriers can prevent researchers ...
Food issues 食事
(2021)
Food issues 食事. Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia concentrates on the relationship among food, culture, literature, and language in a comparative, transcultural, or literary perspective. ...