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In the late Middle Ages, Italy was one of the most urbanized areas in Europe. Its coasts, the Apennines, the perialpine area and the plains were all home to a large number of smaller towns, lands, villages, castra, and 'quasi cites'. These settlements were all very diverse in terms of demographic consistency, social articulation and economic dynamism, but together they constituted a characteristic and constitutive element of the Italian historical identity: an 'original personality'. This volume, thanks to some framing essays and a mapping of individual cases involving most of the northern, central and southern regions, aims at investigating the active research on this topic over the last thirty to forty years.
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In the late Middle Ages, Italy was one of the most urbanized areas in Europe. Its coasts, the Apennines, the perialpine area and the plains were all home to a large number of smaller towns, lands, villages, castra, and 'quasi cites'. These settlements were all very diverse in terms of demographic consistency, social articulation and economic dynamism, but together they constituted a characteristic and constitutive element of the Italian historical identity: an 'original personality'. This volume, thanks to some framing essays and a mapping of individual cases involving most of the northern, central and southern regions, aims at investigating the active research on this topic over the last thirty to forty years.
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Carolynn E. Roncaglia's Northern Italy in the Roman World analyzes the effect of the Roman Empire on northern Italy, tracing the evolution of the region from the Bronze Age to the Gothic wars. A wealthy and strategically important region, northern Italy presents an interesting case study for examining the influence of the Roman state on the fluctuating geographic areas of Cisalpine Gaul that were under its control. Using an array of epigraphic, archaeological, numismatic, and literary evidence, Roncaglia shows how Rome affected matters large and small, from loom weights to ritual horse burials, social networks to the careers of writers. Among the range of fascinating topics she discusses are Celtic migrations, the Roman conquest, Hannibal, long-distance trade networks, freedmen families, St. Ambrose, Catullus, and Pliny the Younger. Northern Italy in the Roman World argues that the relationship between long-term trends and short-term events is key to understanding how Rome affected the territory within its empire. The book is the first major discussion of Roman northern Italy in English to appear since World War II and will be of special interest to scholars and students of the ancient world, European prehistory, the medieval world, and Italian studies.
Italy, Northern --- History. --- Civilization --- Roman influences. --- Italy, Northern. --- Northern Italy
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Handsomely illustrated and grand in scale, this book features images by American photographer William Wylie (b. 1957) taken over the course of five years. The photographs reanimate the ancient city of Pompeii, showing the ongoing cycles of deterioration and preservation that mark it as a living landscape. Wylie captures Pompeii's former grandeur, including its terracotta reliefs and wall paintings, while also drawing attention to the signs of an active excavation site, from plaster casts in glass cases to ceramic fragments in storage facilities. His elegant compositions and command of light and shadow highlight how natural phenomena, pollution, and human intervention are continually reshaping the city. People, however, are notably absent in the photographs. Wylie beautifully documents Pompeii's present by engaging with the tenuous relationship that the archaeological site maintains with the past. Exhibition: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA (Spring-Summer 2018).
PHOTOGRAPHY / General. --- Antiquities. --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Italy --- Italy. --- Italy --- Antiquities
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A Companion to Medieval Genoa introduces non-specialists to recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Genoa. Focusing mostly on the eleventh to fifteenth centuries, the volume positions the city of Genoa and the Genoese within the broader history of the Italian peninsula and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Thematic contributions highlight the interdependence of local, regional, and international concerns, and serve as a helpful corrective to the traditional overemphasis of Florence and Venice in the English-language historiography of medieval Italy. The volume thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of medieval Italy—as well as a handy introduction to the riches of the Genoese archives—to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in related fields. Contributors are Ross Balzaretti, Carrie E. Beneš, Denise Bezzina, Roberta Braccia, Luca Filangieri, George L. Gorse, Paola Guglielmotti, Thomas Kirk, Sandra Macchiavello, Merav Mack, Jeffrey Miner, Rebecca Müller, Antonio Musarra, Sandra Origone, Giovanna Petti Balbi, Valeria Polonio, Gervase Rosser, Antonella Rovere, Stefan Stantchev, and Carlo Taviani.
Genoa (Italy) --- Genoa (Italy) --- Genoa (Italy) --- History --- History --- Civilization.
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Qu'est-ce que le fascisme ? Fut-il un mouvement reactionnaire, conservateur ou revolutionnaire ? Se situait-il a gauche ou a droite ? Et bien entendu : quelle place occupa Mussolini dans les debats ideologiques et dans le fonctionnement du regime ? Le present ouvrage donne non seulement des reponses a ces questions cruciales, mais porte sur le fascisme un regard nouveau et inhabituel chez les historiens francais. Reaffirmant avec force le caractere totalitaire du regime, il replace l'ideologie qui le fonde dans sa nature revolutionnaire tout en la rattachant a la Revolution francaise et au socialisme. Si les fascistes chercherent a detruire par la violence la modernite liberale de leur temps, ce ne fut pas au nom d'un age d'or revolu et dans une demarche passeiste, mais avec la volonte farouche de construire une societe et un homme nouveaux. Cette ambition impregnait aussi bien les pensees et les actes du Duce que ceux de ses disciples, y compris dans la radicalisation sanglante de la republique de Salo. Pour toutes ces raisons, l'histoire du fascisme, ici racontee de la prise de pouvoir de Mussolini jusqu'a sa mort, est celle d'une revolution avortee.
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Venice (Italy) --- Venice (Italy) --- History --- Civilization.
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Italy --- History --- Civilization --- Italie