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This book challenges prevailing models of the ways formerly enslaved individuals in Ancient Rome navigated their social and economic landscape. Drawing on the rich epigraphic evidence left behind by municipal freedmen and freedwomen, who had been owned and manumitted by the communities of Roman Italy, it pushes back against ameliorating views of slavery as a temporary condition and positive notions of a prosperous and consciously proud Roman freedman class. Manumission was a far more complex process, and it did not always put former slaves and their descendants on the straight and narrow path of upward mobility.

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While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical truth. Some authors equated historical truth with verisimilitude, thus harmonizing the quest for truth with other ingredients of their histories, such as their political utility and rhetorical aptness. Others, instead, rejected the notion of verisimilitude, identifying historical truth with factuality. Accordingly, theysought to produce bare and exhaustive accounts of all the things that pertained to their historical explorations, often resorting to innovative disciplines, such as archeology, philology, and the history of institutions. The humanist historiographical debate is especially significant because thenotion of verisimilitude encompassed crucial elements required for the development of methods of critical assessment. By perceiving verisimilitude and factuality as irreconcilable, Quattrocento humanists reached a critical impasse--those who were interested in factual truth mostly lacked the means to ascertain it, while those that developed embryonic notions of historical criticism were not eminently concerned with the factual account of the past. This critical weakness exposed humaniststo considerable risks, including that of accepting non-verisimilar historical forgeries passed off as factual. Such forgeries eventually served as a testing ground for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholars, who sought to restore factual truth by means of critical criteria grounded in verisimilitude,thus overcoming the humanist impasse. Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy addresses Renaissance history, philosophy, rhetoric, and jurisprudence to shed light on how humanists conceptualized truth and, more specifically, historical truth.

Humanism --- Historiography --- History --- Italy --- Civilization

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"This book offers the edition, translation into French and analysis of all the chancery documents (in Arabic, Latin and Italian) concerning the relations established between Florence and the Mamluk sultanate between 1422 and 1510. Taking into consideration the achievements made in recent decades in the field of Mamluk diplomatics, this work corrects several errors and inaccuracies contained in previous editions as well as presents some unpublished documents. An introduction addresses the historical framework of diplomatic relations and examines the characteristics of the sources. A rich body of explanatory notes and a glossary analyze their content. The sources published in this volume constitute the historical testimony available for outlining the framework of the diplomatic exchanges maintained by the City of the Lily and Mamluk Cairo. Cet ouvrage présente l'édition, la traduction en français et l'analyse de tous les documents de chancellerie (en arabe, latin et italien) concernant les relations établies entre Florence et le sultanat mamelouk entre 1422 et 1510. Prenant en compte les recherches accomplies au cours des dernières décennies dans le domaine des études diplomatiques, ce travail corrige plusieurs erreurs et inexactitudes contenues dans les précédentes éditions de ces sources et contient quelques documents inédits. Une introduction aborde le cadre historique des relations diplomatiques et examine les caractéristiques des sources. Un riche ensemble de notes explicatives et un glossaire analysent leur contenu. Les sources publiées dans ce volume constituent le témoignage historique disponible pour tracer le cadre des échanges diplomatiques entretenus par la Ville du Lys et Le Caire mamelouk"--

Mamelukes. --- Egypt --- Florence (Italy) --- Syria --- Florence (Italy) --- Florence (Italy) --- Egypt --- Syria --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations

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In Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World, D. Alex Walthall investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily's agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that, at one time, played an outsized role in the political and cultural affairs of the Western Mediterranean. Walthall's study combines an historical overview with the rich archaeological evidence that traditionally has not been considered in studies of Hellenistic kingdoms. Exploring the Hieronian system of agricultural taxation, he recasts the traditional narrative of the island's role as a Roman imperial 'grain basket' via analysis of monumental granaries, patterns of rural land-use, standardized grain measures, and the circulation of bronze coinage- the material elements of an agricultural administration that have emerged from recent excavations and intensive landscape survey on the island. Combining material and documentary evidence, Walthall's multi-disciplinary approach offers a new model for the writing of economic and social history of ancient societies.

Agriculture, Ancient --- Syracuse (Italy) --- Kings and rulers. --- Politics and government. --- Hellenism. --- Hieron --- Sicily (Italy) --- History --- Civilization --- Greek influences --- Economic conditions.

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" l volume analizza in primo luogo la Marcia su Roma nel contesto della crisi del primo dopoguerra, dei rapporti tra Stato e società, del nuovo protagonismo dei movimenti sociali, della crisi di egemonia della classe dirigente liberale, dell’incontro tra le élite tradizionali del potere e il fascismo. Da questo quadro deriverà un processo di trasformazione autoritaria dello Stato e della società già avviatosi con la Grande guerra e nella crisi organica che ad essa era seguita. A questi temi si coniuga una rivisitazione dell’antitesi tradizionale tra “biennio rosso” e “biennio nero”.Un secondo focus è costituito dall’analisi delle forze politiche in campo, i socialisti e i comunisti, il mondo cattolico, i liberali, il movimento e il partito fascista.Un terzo ambito riguarda il tema, spesso trascurato, dell’antifascismo popolare.La conquista fascista del potere aprirà la strada a un regime che costituirà un modello per le destre in Europa e per un ventennio sbarrerà la strada a ogni trasformazione democratica dello Stato e della società italiana. "

Marcia su Roma --- Atti di congressi. --- Fascism --- Italy --- History --- Politics and government