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Chapter Material inequalities in England, c. 1290 - c. 1340
(2025)
England c. 1300 was clearly an unequal society, yet assessing its distribution of wealth and income and levels of poverty with precision is not straightforward. Households earned their living by combining different sources ...
Pedagogisti e educatori tra scuola e università
(2018)
Due to his firm belief in the value of a close cooperation between school and university, and also in the commitment to the creation of a form of emancipatory and democratic education, the author collected profiles and ...
Chapter La formazione continua negli ecosistemi d’apprendimento e il ruolo delle Academy
(2024)
Industrial systems, characterized by robotic devices and the artificial intelligence evolution, have transformed the sense of work by modifying the sense making and skills development processes. The continuous training, ...
Chapter Lavoro, ozio, festa: riequilibrare l’umano
(2024)
The essay aims at proposing a balance between the elements that can realize the human being in itself and in a good relationship within the social living. In a frame like that, work has to be connected with action and ...
Chapter Il canone inverso. Il governo italiano e i missionari cattolici in Somalia (1950-1970)
(2024)
This paper examines the relationships established between the 1950s and 1970s between the Italian government and the Catholic missionaries in Somalia as part of international cooperation. Using mainly unpublished documentation ...
Chapter Lavoro, ozio e mendicità: la disputa duecentesca tra Ordini mendicanti e clero secolare
(2024)
The Middle Ages marked the definitive break with the ancient conception that opposed servile labour to the idleness of intellectual life and the exercise of the liberal arts. Within this paradigm shift, a central role was ...
Rocca San Silvestro
(2021)
This volume collects five years of studies conducted by various researchers coordinated by the author and describe the different phases of the restoration project and the construction site of Rocca San Silvestro. The ...
Smart Skin Envelope
(2011)
The Smart Skin Envelope research analyses the recent revolution that has taken place in the sector of planning and production of smart skin components, made up of dynamic layers. The aim is to identify the technological, ...
Chapter Il lavoro pratico arriva alla letteratura
(2024)
The Sixteenth century gradually overcame the inadequate consideration previously accorded to pratical work. Cornelius Agrippa, De incertitudine scientiarum (1529) treated many menial jobs next to the noble ones, and he had ...
La Biblioteca della Külliye di Kavála
(2005)
This study represents the continuation and in part the completion of a research study within an Islamic educational and philanthropic institution, currently located in Greek territory. Through repeated inspections and a ...
Chapter Cos’è una patria? Appunti del patriota Meneghello
(2024)
Presented here are some unpublished notes by Luigi Meneghello written for a conference held in Bologna in 2002 dedicated to the theme of the Patria (the homeland). The experience of fascism, with its violent, nationalist ...
Chapter Princes and Paradise: Rabban Sauma in the Western Mediterranean
(2024)
This chapter is an analysis of the China-Mediterranean connection of the Nestorian monk Rabban Sauma, the first known Chinese-born person to visit the European Mediterranean, in the History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban ...
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2014 Florence
(2014)
Information Technologies of interest for Culture Heritage are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, data protection, access to digital content, Virtual Galleries. Particular reference is reserved to digital images ...
Chapter Intervento alla Tavola rotonda
(2025)
Based on the indications contained in the call, the text examines the data, hypotheses, ideas, and suggestions that emerged from the work of the LV Settimana di studi. The commentary focuses on some of the most relevant ...
Chapter Rappresentazioni del «carattere» dei Giapponesi nella cultura francese settecentesca
(2024)
The character of nations was a prominent topic in 18th century intellectual debate, searching for criteria that could explain the great diversity of customs, institutions, religions and cultures of the world's peoples. ...
Language, Cognition and Identity. Extensions of the endocentric/exocentric language typology
(2010)
An endocentric language is a language whose verbs are lexically precise and concrete whereas its nouns are abstract and vague. An exocentric language has lexically precise and concrete nouns and abstract verbs. The Germanic ...
Femminile e maschile nel Settecento
(2018)
In the 18th century, the relationship between the male and the female became particularly relevant and turned into an excellent test bench within the construction process of the individual’s identity. Many are the images ...
La Psicologia come Scienza della Salute
(2017)
This volume collects the contributions presented at the XII SIPSA National Congress organized by the SIPSA Association (Italian Society of Health Psychology) and by the Department of Health Sciences of the University of ...
Enzo Catarsi, un pedagogista al plurale
(2015)
The volume collects the papers of colleagues, friends and collaborators submitted during the conference “L’infanzia nella figura di Enzo Catarsi” (“Childhood in the figure of Enzo Catarsi), held in Florence on April 29, ...
L’istituzione del matrimonio in Tolstoj
(2015)
Leo Tolstoy's works are not only masterpieces of world literature, but also mirrors of their time, of the socio-cultural transformations which took place in Tsarist Russia; it is from this perspective that, in this work, ...
Chapter La mancanza vocazionale, le dimissioni volontarie e la crisi delle organizzazioni cooperative: una ricerca esplorativa
(2024)
For several years we have been witnessing a gradual and steady increase in resignations from jobs, there are nearly 2 million 200 thousand resignations recorded in 2022, an increase of 13.8 percent compared to 2021 when ...
Chapter L’idea di lavoro nella Costituzione italiana
(2024)
The author reconstructs the concept of work in the Constitutional system as concretely implemented to date, starting from the fundamental principles and rules on socio-economic relations as read by jurisprudence, especially ...
Chapter Border pacts and frontier areas in Carolingian Italy
(2024)
Border pacts are an Italian peculiarity in the early Middle Ages. They indicate the existence of a traditional and specific practice of agreements between different powers coexisting on the Italian territory, which is much ...
Imaging light transport at the femtosecond scale
(2018)
Paper, milk, clouds and white paint share a common property: they are opaque disordered media through which light scatters randomly rather than propagating in a straight path. For very thick and turbid media, indeed, light ...
Un carteggio di Margherita Guidacci. Lettere a Tiziano Minarelli
(2014)
Margherita Guidacci's correspondence with Tiziano Minarelli is filled with memories and poetic occasions, and it allows us to shed light on the genesis of her latest poetic collections (from Inno alla gioia in 1983 to ...
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
(2013)
The MAVEBA Workshop proceedings, held on a biannual basis, collect the scientific papers presented both as oral and poster contributions, during the conference. The main subjects are: development of theoretical and mechanical ...
Trasformazioni, valori e regole del lavoro
(2024)
The volume collects contributions from colleagues, friends, and companions who wished to honour the memory of Riccardo Del Punta, continuing the dialogue with his academic thought. The writings address many of the numerous ...
Chapter Plastic pollution on the Tuscan coast: environmental measures municipalities can put in place to reduce it
(2024)
Pollution by plastics and other chemical pollutants is outside of safe operating space of the planetary boundary for humanity. Scientific evidence shows that to address plastic pollution, it is urgently needed to deploy ...
Cittadini e no
(2014)
The theme of “citizenship” has become very topical once again. Who should be considered a citizen? What does it mean to be a citizen? What are the mechanisms regulating inclusion and exclusion from citizenship? How can ...
Chapter From passageway to frontier: the Alps in Carolingian times
(2024)
The article focuses on the Carolingian frontiers within the Alps: starting with their origins in Roman times and the changes in the Merovingian era, it focuses on the broader developments of the Carolingian period, when ...
Chapter Web archives and hyperlink analyses: The case of videnskab.dk 2009–2022
(2024)
This chapter demonstrates how the use of a national web archive in hyperlinked network analyses may prove an indispensable source when conducting not only historical but also contemporary analyses of a given website. Our ...
Chapter Uno scrittore, due mondi: Baretti, gli illuministi inglesi e il Settecento italiano
(2024)
Three centuries ago, Giuseppe Baretti was born in Turin. This essay outlines his personality, voyages and movements, with particular attention to his often challenging relationships with the Italian Enlightenment and his ...
Chapter Seneca: otium filosofico e mondo delle occupationes
(2024)
The essay considers the anthropological architecture of Seneca’s thought. It investigates the relationship between leisure (otium) and the world of occupations, in which we could include work. As a contemplative activity, ...
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Meyer
(2015)
The Meyer University Hospital Report on health and scientific activity is a valuable tool for sharing and disseminating information that summarises the working methods, the results and the lines of improvement that must ...
Letture anticanoniche della biofiction, dentro e fuori la metafinzione
(2014)
Letture anticanoniche biofiction, dentro e fuori la metafinzione, aims at offering multiple interpretations to biofictions. For the critical analysis of these pieces, identified so far with a 'symptomatic' examination of ...
SMOC – Método Abierto de Coordinación de Prevalet
(2011)
Seven European Regional Governments, together with Earlall and universities and research centres, have undertaken to refine a first draft of a Joint Progress Report of Regions on Implementation of European Lifelong Learning ...
Chapter Riccione’s study case: experimentation of innovative artificial reef for coastal defense and increase marine biodiversity
(2024)
Riccione is a town (near Rimini) on Romagna coast, with a small port and with the problem of coastal erosion that, reducing the width of the beaches, can create great problems for tourist activities and buildings in case ...
Chapter The reoccupation of the late roman villae of the Iberian Peninsula and the record of the subaltern debris. The case of Fuente Álamo (Puente Genil, Córdoba)
(2024)
Recent studies on the peasantry in the ancient world and early Middle Ages on the Iberian Peninsula have experienced a revitalization due to new archaeological records and the application of landscape archaeology. Alternative ...
Chapter Heritage education e pedagogia del patrimonio culturale: per un approccio olistico e globale
(2024)
The contribution explores the development of educational research on cultural heritage in Italy, comparing it with the European context and focusing on heritage education as an academic discipline. Starting from the semantic ...
Assoggettamento e passioni nel pensiero politico di Judith Butler
(2016)
Chiara Mastroberti retraces the most decisive moments of Judith Butler's work with the aim of deepening Butler’s thoughts on the relationship between political subjection and individual passions. Rereading La vita psichica ...
Chapter Village formation and peasantry agency. The case study of Gorliz (Bizkaia)
(2024)
The study of medieval village formation has generated an intense debate throughout Europe regarding the construction of agricultural landscapes, the initiative of the elites, the weight of the lordships or the importance ...
Chapter Tra taylorismo e fordismo: il lavoratore nella società industriale
(2024)
Often considered as a whole, Taylorism and Fordism are two concepts that express different realities, with different extensions and practical applications. The chapter explores these two paradigms showing their differences ...
Chapter Trent’anni di linguistica slava in Italia
(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 linguistics
Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata for e-Communities
(2002)
DC-2002 marks the tenth in the ongoing series of International Dublin Core Workshops, and the second that includes a full program of tutorials and peer-reviewed conference papers. Interest in Dublin Core metadata has grown ...
Chapter La letteratura della Rus’ medievale: stato dell’arte e problemi
(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 Russian medieval literature
Progettare "paesaggi di limite"
(2005)
The volume deals with the theme of urban landscape design, taking into account in particular the experience of “green belts” and “green wedges”. The limit landscape project carries out experimentations in the peri-urban ...
Lezioni di Sistemi Dinamici
(2016)
This work is based on the “Notes for the course of dynamic systems” written by Professor Riccardo Ricci in 2005 and subsequently reworked until the year of his death, which occurred in 2013. Starting from the latest version, ...
Chapter Riproduzione, natura, valore
(2024)
The issue of reproduction has been introduced by feminist movements since the 1970s as the blind spot in the conceptions of work as production. The resumption and updating of the reproduction category allow to grasp the ...
Chapter A Social media archive for digital memory research
(2024)
Social media is an important social and cultural interaction arena, and a growing field of social research. Acknowledging the limitations of social media platforms and institutional web archiving initiatives to fully support ...
Chapter Regieren mit Bildern. Funktion und Rezeption der Genueser Annalen im Spiegel ihrer Randzeichnungen
(2024)
The Genoese annals are famous as an early and official Italian communal chronicle written by laymen. However, comparatively little research has been done on the drawings accompanying Cafaro’s and Oberto’s annals in the ...
Scarti, tracce e frammenti: controarchivio e memoria dell’umano
(2019)
Scarti, tracce e frammenti: controarchivio e memoria dell’umano. Literature and art, increasingly interested in the dark side of production, now appear as a reservoir of fragments and waste of all sorts. The attraction ...
La morte e i suoi riti in Italia tra Medioevo e prima Età moderna
(2007)
Consciously repressed by the current dominating culture, in Italy and Europe in the late mediaeval and early modern age death was addressed with greater confidence and awareness, and sometimes even with serenity. The modes ...
Parole e cose
(2016)
Parole e cose (“Words and Things”) collects the works by Silvano Boscherini (1920-2010), Full Professor of Latin Literature in Florence, published on magazine during his long academic activity. The volume is a proof of ...
Lettere a Ruggero Jacobbi
(2006)
Lettere a Ruggero Jacobbi offers an extensive register of over a thousand pieces of letters sent to the author over a period of forty years (from 1938 to 1981) and of about seventy letters written by him to various ...
Chapter La Méditerranée des basiliens melkites au XVIIIe siècle. Jalons pour l’étude des mobilités des moines catholiques orientaux
(2024)
Recent historiography has presented some early modern Eastern Christians as transnational and transcultural subjects in a global world. This study focuses on the long-distance mobility of Greek Catholic Melkite monks from ...
Per le riviste di Vecchietti negli anni ’30-’40
(2016)
Retracing Dessí’s collaboration in the magazines “L’Orto”, “Primato” and “Cronache” directed by Giorgio Vecchietti, among stories, essays and reviews that have remained largely unpublished, means deepening the writer’s ...
A 150 anni dall’unificazione amministrativa italiana. Vol. VIII
(2016)
In 1865, there was the enactment of the laws of administrative unification for the Kingdom of Italy. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary, the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence organized a study ...
Isotopic fractionation study towards massive star-forming regions across the Galaxy
(2021)
One of the most important tools to investigate the chemical history of our Galaxy and our own Solar System is to measure the isotopic fractionation of chemical elements. In the present study new astronomical observations ...
L’Italia repubblicana e gli aiuti internazionali
(2024)
The book examines the complex process through which Italy passed from being ‘recipient of international aid’ to ‘donor country’. It does so by looking at the different actors which characterised this shift: national and ...
De bibliothecariis
(2017)
In the activity of the librarian, the technical dimension, essential for working with professionalism, cannot ignore or be separated from commitment, attention to civil rights and the way in which they are lived and practiced ...
Chapter Genealogical Writing and Epigraphic Layout: Some Preliminary Remarks
(2024)
After some preliminary reflections on the ancient Greeks’ genealogical attitude, the chapter focuses on the layout of genealogical gravestones, which consist of two main types. The first type includes individual gravestones, ...
Chapter From Texts on Walls to Walls of Text: The Layout of Late Antique Greek Documents Inscribed on Architecture
(2024)
Late Roman documents inscribed in Greek on wall space in Asia Minor look surprisingly different from earlier Greek documentary inscriptions also inscribed on walls, which were often carved with the text subdivided into ...
Chapter Time, bits, and nickel: Managing digital and analog continuity
(2024)
In 1998, the Getty Center hosted the "Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity" conference, gathering the founders and thinkers of two San Francisco non-profit organizations interested in long-term thinking and archiving: ...
Finite-Size Effects in Stochastic Models of Population Dynamics: Applications to Biomedicine and Biology
(2010)
Population dynamics constitutes a widespread branch of investigations which finds important applications within the realm of life science. The classical deterministic (macroscopic) approach aims at characterizing the time ...
Trame controluce. Il patriarca 'protestante' Cirillo Loukaris / Backlighting Plots. The 'Protestant' Patriarch Cyril Loukaris
(2015)
Cyril Loukaris (1570-1638), Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria and later of Constantinople, is a fascinating and controversial figure. In addition to being a religious authority, the patriarch proved to be a first-rate ...
Chapter Arti, tecniche e mestieri in Diderot e nell’Encyclopédie
(2024)
The Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1751-1772) is the laboratory of experience of the new technical-rational values produced by the 18th century and the philosophie. Science ...
Tecnologia per il web learning
(2007)
This book maps out a course through the methodological and technological innovations of internet-based training, setting the emphasis on the collaborative character of experiences of learning and on the interactivity of ...
Chapter Luigi Meneghello recensore in inglese per il «Times Literary Supplement»
(2024)
This article discusses the transnational and translingual dimension of Luigi Meneghello’s cultural project, by focusing on his reviews of Italian books for the «Times Literary Supplement» (1977-1989, 1998-1999). The analysis ...
Chapter Classificazioni e paragone delle arti tra Medioevo e Rinascimento
(2024)
The text approaches the idea of labour in the classifications of knowledge (13th-16th c.), especially concerning liberal and mechanical arts. The authors addressed show an increased interest in manual work. The mechanical ...
Chapter Tavola rotonda
(2024)
This round-table discussion focuses on two major aspects of the use of alternative currencies. The first is the role of negotiation. The complexity of valuation in exchanges in kind has been widely highlighted. However, ...
Chapter La letteratura russa dell’Ottocento
(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 Russian 19th-century literature
Chapter Ecosystem services as support tool of urban planning activities in coastal areas
(2024)
In coastal areas, increased climatic and anthropogenic pressures contribute to the reduction of ecosystem services related to the biodiversity of natural capital. These dynamics make the coastal areas one of the most complex ...
La prosa sovietica nel contesto socio-culturale dell’epoca brežneviana
(2020)
The main purpose of this work is to re-examine the literature published in the USSR during the Brežnevian era (1964-'84). Although it was considered insignificant and uninteresting, quickly forgotten after its conclusion, ...
Molecules of an author in search of memory
(2014)
Loosely based on Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, the play has a Fahrenheit 451 setting. In a world without books or memory appears a common man, the Man in the street, with some heets of writing that he cannot make out. ...
Didascalia cioè dottrina comica libri tre (1658-1661)
(2016)
Girolamo Bartolommei’s literary research is characterised by the narration of actions carried out by sacred and profane subjects and by the narration of ancient fabulae, re-interpreted according to the principle of moral ...
Via verde e via d’oro
(2015)
Via verde e via d’oro. Le politiche open access dell’Università di Firenze addresses the multifaceted issue of free and open access to knowledge. Open access is a movement born in the last century with the aim of improving ...
Chapter A. Supiot: senso del lavoro e giustizia sociale
(2024)
This chapter outlines the main concepts examined and defined by the French jurist Alain Supiot, and traces the argumentative trajectories of his proposals for reflection and action, which - as the document seeks to emphasize ...
Chapter Numerical Wave Tanks for Wave Energy Converters Using High-Performance Computing
(2024)
Numerical Wave Tanks (NWTs) powered by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) offer a cost-effective and flexible alternative to physical wave tanks. They are essential for simulating complex ...
Chapter Axel Honneth: il lavoro come ambito di riconoscimento e di conflitto normativo
(2024)
The article briefly traces the perspective on work developed by Axel Honneth in the context of his recognition theory. For Honneth, work is a vector of social recognition, a field of conflict but also of solidarity, and ...
Agricoltura e allevamento nell’Italia medievale. Contributo bibliografico, 1950-2010
(2016)
The bibliography proposed takes into account the historiographical works on Middle Ages (VI-XV centuries) of the years 1950-2010: these are years particularly significant for the development and consolidation of studies ...