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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 ...