Viella Libreria Editrice imprint: 142 books
by Elena Fumagalli, Raffaella Morselli
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Up to now the theme of the artist in the service of Italian courts has been examined in various studies focused mostly on the High Renaissance, as though the phenomenon was relevant only to the XV and XVI centuries. It actually lasted much longer, spanning the whole longue durée of the lives of the...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The starting point for this research is the ascertainment of a major change in the spirituality paradigm of the last centuries of the European Middle Ages, which, since the 13th century, results in a new and final interpretation, focused on pauperistic, evangelical and apostolic ideals, of the religious...
by Autori Vari
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
‘Communication’ has become one of the most vibrant areas of current research on medieval and early modern Europe, almost paralleling the heightened popularity of conflict study since the 1980s. However, the nature of this concept seems to be ambiguous and has been defined with multiple nuances....
Changing Urban Landscapes
Eastern European and Post-Soviet Cities Since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The vast territory from Asia to Eastern Europe that was part of or under the influence of the Soviet Union comprised cities, which have undergone profound changes in the last twenty years. The opening of borders combined with the affirmation of market dynamics, privatization and concentration of wealth,...
by Massimo L. Salvadori
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
"The topic of this second edition of the Gaetano Sal- vemini Colloquium is one of the most complex in Italian history. In just a few years, between July 1943 and April 1948, a rapid succession of events took place that are critical to understand the history of post-fascist Italy along with the political...
by Maria Clara Rossi, Marina Garbellotti
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
In recent years historical studies on adoption and fosterage have greatly advanced, very likely due to the importance that such practices have acquired in our own societies. Also in the past – not only during Roman or Late Antique periods, but throughout the Middle Ages and the Modern Era as well...
Il Cimitero acattolico di Roma
La presenza protestante nella città del papa
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Oggetto fuori d’Italia di «una venerazione forse sconosciuta agli italiani», la vicenda del Cimitero acattolico romano, la cui origine risale a circa tre secoli fa, merita di essere approfondita per più aspetti. Sotto il profilo della storia della città di Roma, capitale del papato, che ospitò...
La Grande Guerra delle italiane
Mobilitazioni, diritti, trasformazioni
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2016
La totalità delle donne dei paesi belligeranti fu toccata dalla guerra: in modi diversi dagli uomini, bambine, fanciulle e donne dovettero fare i conti con un conflitto di dimensioni globali che lasciò sui campi di battaglia dieci milioni di soldati, causò un numero imprecisato di morti fra i civili,...
Disciplined Dissent
Strategies of Non-Confrontational Protest in Europe from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Inspired by current debates around political confrontation and the exercise of power, Fabrizio Titone offers an interpretation based on the concept of disciplined dissent. This interpretation is centred on the notion of diffused power and is designed to transcend the binary distinction consensus/resistance....
Union in Separation
Diasporic Groups and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean (1100-1800)
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Union in Separation presents a series of case studies on diasporic groups in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. It explores how Armenian, Byzantine/Greek, Florentine, Genoese, Hospitaller, Jewish, Mamluk, and Venetian communities characterized by diasporic identities...
I donchisciotte del tavolino
Nei dintorni della burocrazia
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Personaggi, comportamenti, rituali, stereotipi che hanno caratterizzato ambienti impiegatizi otto-novecenteschi non sono a tutt’oggi completamente scomparsi. è quanto sembra volerci dire Isabella Zanni Rosiello, che ha puntato lo sguardo su coloro che, addetti a monotone attività di scrittura,...
Appello al Turco
I confini infranti del Rinascimento
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Per molto tempo i poteri pubblici, i singoli individui e le autorità religiose del mondo cristiano fecero di nascosto la cosa innominabile che questo libro riporta alla luce: si appellarono ai turchi per risolvere i loro più disparati problemi personali o politici. Ciò accadde soprattutto nell’Italia...
Leonardo e Machiavelli
Vite incrociate
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Urbino, giugno 1502: il trentatreenne Niccolò Machiavelli è stato inviato dalla Cancelleria fiorentina presso il giovane Cesare Borgia, celebre ormai per la forza, l’insolenza, l’audacia con cui si avvia a diventare il signore dell’Italia centrale, e che potrebbero fare di lui il “principe...
Una gentildonna irrequieta
Giulia Gonzaga fra reti familiari e relazioni eterodosse
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2015
La biografia di Giulia Gonzaga, protagonista di un delicato passaggio della storia politica, culturale e religiosa del Cinquecento italiano, permette di cogliere con vivezza un’epoca ed i suoi drammatici snodi. Discepola prediletta di Juan de Valdés e al centro del gruppo degli spirituali valdesiani,...