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Medieval Rome refers to the historical period in Rome from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the Renaissance in the 15th century, characterized by significant political, religious, and cultural transformations, including the rise of the Papacy, the influence of feudalism, and the development of Gothic architecture.
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Medieval Rome refers to the historical period in Rome from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the Renaissance in the 15th century, characterized by significant political, religious, and cultural transformations, including the rise of the Papacy, the influence of feudalism, and the development of Gothic architecture.
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1. How did the Christianization of Rome’s suburbs shape the city’s religious and social landscape between the 4th and 6th centuries CE?
This research theme focuses on the transformation of Rome’s suburban areas during late antiquity through the establishment of Christian martyr cults and religious architecture. It investigates the collaboration between imperial, aristocratic, and episcopal actors in shaping Rome’s sacred topography, examining how these groups used martyr shrines and basilicas to consolidate Christian identity and political power. The research uncovers the interplay of religious memory, social cooperation, and urban spatial dynamics that facilitated the suburbs' integration into the Christian fabric of the city.
Memory, Power, and Cooperation: Shaping Rome’s Suburbs through the Martyr Cult during the 4th to the 6th Centuries CE
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Christina Videbech
2025, Acta Archaeologica 95(2) (2024)
Key finding: Demonstrates that imperial patronage, aristocratic support, and episcopal authority aligned to construct and maintain martyr shrines and basilicas, collectively transforming Rome’s suburbs into a Christian extension of the...
Key finding: Demonstrates that imperial patronage, aristocratic support, and episcopal authority aligned to construct and maintain martyr shrines and basilicas, collectively transforming Rome’s suburbs into a Christian extension of the city. This triadic cooperation reinforced the use of martyr memory as a unifying force, shaping both religious practices and urban identity during this formative period.
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Relics as Agents of Identity Building in Early Medieval Migration Societies. Rome and Jerusalem in the Aftermath of the Sasanian and Islamic Conquest, in: A. Bremenkamp u. a. (eds.), Importreliquien in Rom von Damasus I. bis Paschalis I., Wiesbaden 2024, pp. 214-243.
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Manfred Luchterhandt
2024
Key finding: Analyzes the political and ecclesiastical networks enabling the transfer of Eastern relics to Rome following the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem, arguing that such relics served as vital agents in integrating diaspora...
Key finding: Analyzes the political and ecclesiastical networks enabling the transfer of Eastern relics to Rome following the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem, arguing that such relics served as vital agents in integrating diaspora communities and reinforcing Christian identity through shared worship practices and festival commemorations in Rome’s sacred spaces.
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Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data
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Alexander Sandrock
2025, The European Physical Journal C
Key finding: Explores medieval Welsh literary accounts of journeys to Rome, revealing how Rome's religious and cultural symbolism influenced Christian identity formation beyond Italy, and how pilgrimage narratives contributed to a broader...
Key finding: Explores medieval Welsh literary accounts of journeys to Rome, revealing how Rome's religious and cultural symbolism influenced Christian identity formation beyond Italy, and how pilgrimage narratives contributed to a broader Christian conception of space and sacred geography relevant to Rome's role as a spiritual center.
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2. What do material and architectural analyses of medieval Roman monuments reveal about technological, artistic, and political developments from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages?
This theme investigates the technological composition, artistic innovation, and political intentions embedded in Rome’s medieval monuments and infrastructures. Through chemical analyses, architectural studies, and art historical research, scholars uncover the manufacturing processes, stylistic influences, and urban strategies that underpinned the construction, modification, and symbolic use of key sites such as church doors, monasteries, and military order buildings, revealing their role as markers of continuity, authority, and identity across centuries.
Chemical analysis of the 5th and 12th century metal doors in the Lateran, Rome
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Judith Utz
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Martin Fera
2025, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Key finding: Provides detailed chemical characterization of bronze alloys used in the Lateran Baptistery doors, showing continuity in leaded tin bronze manufacture from Late Antiquity through the 12th century. This metallurgical evidence...
Key finding: Provides detailed chemical characterization of bronze alloys used in the Lateran Baptistery doors, showing continuity in leaded tin bronze manufacture from Late Antiquity through the 12th century. This metallurgical evidence sheds light on production techniques and the transmission of artisanal knowledge, illuminating the doors’ cultural and technological significance within Rome’s monumental heritage.
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Alice Isabella Sullivan, review of Perchuk, The Medieval Monastery [...], Burlington Magazine, July 2024
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Alison L Perchuk
2024, Burlington Magazine
Key finding: Synthesizes interdisciplinary analysis of the 12th-century monastery of Saint Elijah, highlighting its artistic, liturgical, and architectural components as manifestations of papal influence on peripheral sites. The study...
Key finding: Synthesizes interdisciplinary analysis of the 12th-century monastery of Saint Elijah, highlighting its artistic, liturgical, and architectural components as manifestations of papal influence on peripheral sites. The study underscores how material culture, including frescoes and inscriptions, constructed monastic identity and political alignment with Roman ecclesiastical authority.
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Giulia Rossi Vairo and Kristjan Toomaspoeg, Buildings and infrastructures of the Teutonic Order in Italy and in Rome. Reassessing the Argument
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Kristjan Toomaspoeg
2025, in Der Deutsche Orden als Bauherr. Aufbau und Ausbau der Infrastrukturen, ed. Wiesław Długokęcki, Christopher Herrmann, VDG, Ilmtal-Weinstraße 2024 (Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens 94), pp. 66-83 (ill. ins. 262-263)
Key finding: Offers a comprehensive survey of surviving and lost Teutonic Order edifices in Rome and Italy, emphasizing their spatial distribution, economic roles, and adaptive reuse. The study contextualizes how the Order’s architectural...
Key finding: Offers a comprehensive survey of surviving and lost Teutonic Order edifices in Rome and Italy, emphasizing their spatial distribution, economic roles, and adaptive reuse. The study contextualizes how the Order’s architectural footprint reflected broader sociopolitical relations and territorial governance within medieval urban and rural landscapes.
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"Das Doppelkreuz am Campanile von Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. Architektur, Bild und Klang als Medien der Sakraltopografie Roms im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert", in: Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 47 (2024), pp. 41–93
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Adrian Bremenkamp
2025
Key finding: Examines the integration of architecture, iconography, and acoustics in the medieval bell tower of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, revealing how the double cross symbol and soundscapes functioned as multimedia instruments in...
Key finding: Examines the integration of architecture, iconography, and acoustics in the medieval bell tower of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, revealing how the double cross symbol and soundscapes functioned as multimedia instruments in sacral urban topography, asserting claims of relic authenticity and reinforcing the church’s spiritual and political significance.
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Manfred Luchterhandt: "Enchanted Images: The Icons of Rome and their Musical Staging, ca. 900-1200", Lecture, Columbia University New York (Mar 1, 2024)
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Manfred Luchterhandt
2025, Enchanted Images
Key finding: Argues that early legends accompanying Roman icons originated as ritual texts recited musically in monastic offices. This demonstrates how visual and performative practices were intertwined in medieval Rome, contributing to...
Key finding: Argues that early legends accompanying Roman icons originated as ritual texts recited musically in monastic offices. This demonstrates how visual and performative practices were intertwined in medieval Rome, contributing to the theological and communal functions of icon veneration.
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3. How did Rome’s epigraphic culture respond to political and social crises from the 13th through the 14th centuries, and what role did inscriptions play in shaping civic identity?
This research area addresses the resilience and adaptability of Rome’s epigraphic practices amid political instability, social unrest, and economic hardship during the late medieval period. It explores how inscriptions served as tools for communicating civic solidarity, commemorating collective experiences, and negotiating power among competing aristocratic factions. By analyzing changes in epigraphic content, form, and spatial deployment, scholars elucidate mechanisms through which Rome’s urban identity was constructed and maintained in crisis contexts.
Rome Against the Crisis: Challenges and Responses in 14th century roman epigraphy
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Lorenzo Curatella
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Federica Cosenza
Beatrice Luci
2024
Key finding: Shows that despite 14th-century political and economic turmoil, epigraphic production persisted and evolved in Rome, reflecting strategies of civic resilience. Inscriptions documented communal efforts to sustain urban...
Key finding: Shows that despite 14th-century political and economic turmoil, epigraphic production persisted and evolved in Rome, reflecting strategies of civic resilience. Inscriptions documented communal efforts to sustain urban identity and assert social order amidst widespread instability.
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Rome Against The Crisis: From Battles to Inscriptions: Epigraphy and the Construction of Civic Identity
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Lorenzo Curatella
2024
Key finding: Demonstrates that the epigraphy of 14th-century Rome functioned as a medium for expressing municipal unity and political agency in a fractured society. Inscriptions commemorating military defense and political institutions...
Key finding: Demonstrates that the epigraphy of 14th-century Rome functioned as a medium for expressing municipal unity and political agency in a fractured society. Inscriptions commemorating military defense and political institutions illustrate the use of public texts in fostering a collective urban identity against internal and external challenges.
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Pratiche Epigrafiche a Roma dal XIII al XV secolo
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Federica Cosenza
2024, Pratiche epigrafiche fra alto e basso Medioevo. Il caso di Roma
Key finding: Provides a comprehensive examination of epigraphic habits in Rome from the 13th to the 15th centuries, detailing the types, contexts, and stylistic features of inscriptions. Highlights the role of epigraphy in both religious...
Key finding: Provides a comprehensive examination of epigraphic habits in Rome from the 13th to the 15th centuries, detailing the types, contexts, and stylistic features of inscriptions. Highlights the role of epigraphy in both religious and secular settings as a dynamic practice instrumental to the articulation of power, memory, and urban continuity.
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SAN GENESIO VESCOVO E I CANOSSA
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Giovanni Santelli
2026, Brescello e i Canossa
Atti del Convegno “Celebrazioni nel IX centenario della morte di Matilde di Canossa”, Brescello 14 maggio 2016. Analisi critica del discusso Atto di conferma donazioni di Matilde di Canossa redatto a Brescello il 12 novembre 1099, con...
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Atti del Convegno “Celebrazioni nel IX centenario della morte di Matilde di Canossa”, Brescello 14 maggio 2016.
Analisi critica del discusso Atto di conferma donazioni di Matilde di Canossa redatto a Brescello il 12 novembre 1099, con l’illustrazione di diversi indizi che ne confermano l’autenticità e identificazione di alcuni altri luoghi, oltre che a Brescello, in cui viene venerato il Santo brescellese.
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N. Bernacchio, "Napoleone: l’Italia, il Papato e Roma", in "Napoleone e il mito di Roma", Catalogo della mostra (Roma, Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali, 4 febbraio-7 novembre 2021), a cura di N. Bernacchio, C. Parisi Presicce, M. Munzi, S. Pastor , Roma, Gangemi Editore, 2021
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Nicoletta Bernacchio
2026
Il saggio approfondisce alcuni aspetti della complessa e multiforme esperienza napoleonica italiana, con attenzione particolare al rapporto con papa Pio VII e alle iniziative urbanistiche e archeologiche che interessarono Roma al tempo...
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Il saggio approfondisce alcuni aspetti della complessa e multiforme esperienza napoleonica italiana, con attenzione particolare al rapporto con papa Pio VII e alle iniziative urbanistiche e archeologiche che interessarono Roma al tempo della dominazione francese (1809-1814). In particolare, questo studio ripercorre le vicende che portarono alla sistemazione dell'area a sud della Colonna di Traiano, dalla distruzione dei complessi religiosi di Sant'Eufemia e dello Spirito Santo alla scoperta e sistemazione dei resti della Basilica Ulpia fino alla conclusione dei lavori al tempo e per iniziativa di papa Pio VII, dopo il suo ritorno a Roma dall'esilio.
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1350. Il Giubileo senza papa, Catalogo della mostra
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Massimiliano Munzi
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Nicoletta Bernacchio
Claudio Parisi Presicce
2026, 1350. Il Giubileo senza papa, Catalogo della mostra
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Introduzione, in Nuove ricerche sulle iscrizioni greche di Roma medievale (sec. VI-XV), a cura di F. D’AIUTO - A. LUZZI, [Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2025] (= Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici, n.s. 61 [2024], pp. 183-353, con tavv. f.t.), pp. 185-191
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Francesco D'Aiuto
2026
Introduzione a una serie di articoli pubblicati nell'ambito del progetto PRIN 2022 «EByRome. Epigraphy of “Byzantine” Rome: medieval Greek inscriptions from/in Rome and Latium (6th-15th cent. AD)», pubblicata sotto il titolo «Nuove...
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Introduzione a una serie di articoli pubblicati nell'ambito del progetto PRIN 2022 «EByRome. Epigraphy of “Byzantine” Rome: medieval Greek inscriptions from/in Rome and Latium (6th-15th cent. AD)», pubblicata sotto il titolo «Nuove ricerche sulle iscrizioni greche di Roma medievale (sec. VI-XV)», a cura di F. D’AIUTO - A. LUZZI, [Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2025] (= Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici, n.s. 61 [2024], pp. 183-353, con tavv. f.t.).
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Lia Barelli, Raffaele Pugliese, La malta come carattere distintivo delle murature carolinge a Roma, in Studi superficiali. Ricerche sulle malte tradizionali e sui sistemi di finitura medievali e moderni, a cura di D. Esposito, F. Lembo Fazio, B. Tetti, Firenze 2022, pp. 367-376
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Lia Barelli
2026
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Cola di Rienzo e il Giubileo del 1350, in 1350. Il Giubileo senza papa, catalogo della mostra, 9 ottobre 2025 – 1° febbraio 2026, a cura di C. Parisi Presicce, N. Bernacchio, M. Munzi, con la collaborazione di S. Pastor, Roma, Campisano, 2026, pp. 39-44. ISBN: 9791257460112
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Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri
2026
Cola di Rienzo e il Giubileo del 1350 Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri 1350 e dintorni. Cronaca di un Giubileo eccezionale Nicoletta Bernacchio I 'ritratti' dei papi a Roma nella prima metà del Trecento, da Bonifacio (1294-1303) a Clemente...
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Cola di Rienzo e il Giubileo del 1350 Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri 1350 e dintorni. Cronaca di un Giubileo eccezionale Nicoletta Bernacchio I 'ritratti' dei papi a Roma nella prima metà del Trecento, da Bonifacio (1294-1303) a Clemente (1342-1352) Claudia Bolgia Roma senza papa e l'emergere di un nuovo ceto committente: homines novi all'ospedale dell'Angelo Claudia D Alberto Un itinerario nella cultura libraria romana e internazionale intorno al Giubileo del 1350, tra caritas e memoria: il Liber Regulae Sancti Spiritus in Saxia e le Cronache di Giovanni Sercambi Maria Alessandra Bilotta L'epigrafia nel Medioevo: Petrarca e Cola di Rienzo tra riscoperta e rinnovamento Simone Pastor Petrarca all'alba della numismatica Massimiliano Munzi «Vix est aliquis ausus intrare ibi». Petrarca, Brigida e Caterina di Svezia pellegrini nel suburbio di Roma Massimiliano Ghilardi «Venite e non più indugiate». Il ritorno del papa a Roma e il ruolo di santa Caterina da Siena Enrico Grassini C A Bibliografia Referenze fotografiche
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Historical Geography of Italy and Historia Langobardorum by Paul the Deacon: brief remarks / Историческая география Италии и Historia Langobardorum Павла Диакона: краткие замечания.
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Anton Zibaev
2026, Клио, 2026. № 3 (231). С. 61–66.
The article examines the features of the geographical description of Italy in the early Medieval intellectual tradition. The Lombard author Pavel Deacon is one of the figures of the “Carolingian Renaissance”, was of aristocratic origin...
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The article examines the features of the geographical description of Italy in the early Medieval intellectual  tradition. The Lombard author Pavel Deacon is one of the figures of the “Carolingian Renaissance”, was of aristocratic origin  and a native of the Duchy of Friuli. Following the principles of chorography, in the second book of the History of the Lombards, he divided the territory of Italy into 18 historical regions in almost full accordance with its administrative structure under Diocletian. In our opinion, when considering this issue, the author refers to the Notitia Dignitatum (5th century), an important reference book on military and civilian positions of the late Roman Empire, which briefly lists the provinces of each of its dioceses, including Italy. All this speaks to Paul’s deep respect for the classical and Late Antique heritage, which is also confirmed by his positive assessments of the reign of Emperor Justinian I the Great, his admiration for ancient mythology and the work of outstanding authors of the past – Pliny the Elder, Priscian of Caesarea, Arator, Cassiodorus, Venantius Fortunatus, etc. At the same time, it is surprising that the pages of the History of the Lombards do not contain detailed descriptions of the numerous duchies of the Lombard Kingdom and the scattered Byzantine possessions on the peninsula in the 8th century. Little attention is also paid to the natural conditions of Italy, but despite this, the dichotomy
"North-South" is noticeable throughout the geographical excursion. The northern province of Venice is actually contrasted with the hot Apulia, but the author does not directly name the best place for the Lombards to live.
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GRAAL De koninklijke hoer van Ierland
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Koenraad Logghe
2026
The connection between whore and queen in the Grail legends
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The Establishment of the Practice of Slave Trade in Georgia during the XIII-XIV Centuries - საქართველოში "ტყვეთა სყიდვის" პრაქტიკის დაფუძნება XIII-XIV საუკუნეების მიჯნაზე
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Giorgi Turashvili
2026, შუა საუკუნეების კვლევები - Medieval Studies
At the end of the XIII century and the start of the XIV two kings of Georgia, Davit VI the ‘Junior’ and Davit VII ‘Senior’ were conducting basically different foreign policy. When later was trying to warm his relations with Mongols,...
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At the end of the XIII century and the start of the XIV two kings of Georgia, Davit VI  the ‘Junior’ and Davit VII ‘Senior’ were conducting basically different foreign policy. When later was trying to warm his relations with Mongols, former was trying to ally himself with their enemies. Among those the most influential and the strongest of allies, which Davit the ‘Junior’ gained was Egyptian Mamlūk Sultanate. In the past historiography this alliance was understood as a victory of Davit’s strong diplomacy, but what was the price for this alliance was less studied. The objective of this article is to show, based on the analyses of the narrative sources, including notarial documents, that one of the counter-proposal from the kingdom of Imereti was the supplying Mamlūk’s with slaves. And how this alliance was one of the important element in a creation a much larger anti-Ilkhanate alliance and the foundational piece for the late Medieval Mediterranean slave trade triangle.
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"Impressione dal vero". La metamorfosi del paesaggio urbano negli acquerelli di Maria Barosso, in Maria Barosso, artista e archeologa nella Roma in trasformazione, a cura di A.M. D'Amelio, M. Ficari, M. Gianandrea, I. Miarelli Mariani, D. Palombi, Roma 2025
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Angela Maria D'Amelio
2026
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In the History of the Catholic Church in Guria
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Irakli Peradze
2026, Catholic Heritage in Georgia 3-4
The article presented by us discusses the activities of Catholic missionaries based on one specific region of Georgia, Guria. Relations of Catholic monks with Georgian kings and feudal lords and the results of their activities. Also, the...
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The article presented by us discusses the activities of Catholic
missionaries based on one specific region of Georgia, Guria.
Relations of Catholic monks with Georgian kings and feudal lords
and the results of their activities. Also, the current status of the
Catholic Church in the Guria region and the activities of Georgian
Catholics at the stage of recent history.
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ORIFICES: SURGERY AND SODOMY IN EARLY MODERN ROME
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silvia de renzi
2026, Open Arts Journal
Orifices were prominent in early modern healing practices because they connected the inside of the body with the outside, for example, as channels through which to remove harmful matter. But they could become clogged, develop pathological...
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Orifices were prominent in early modern healing practices because they connected the inside of the body with the outside, for example, as channels through which to remove harmful matter. But they could become clogged, develop pathological growths or let out what should stay inside. The resulting inflamed veins, hernias or prolapses were the remit of surgeons, whose varied interventions and forms of education historians are reassessing. This article examines how orifices, in particular anuses and genitals, were depicted in a set of plates produced in Rome in the 1660s that was linked to surgeon Guglielmo Riva's teaching activities. While placing these pictures within pedagogical techniques and the changing visual tradition of surgical operations to which they belonged, I explore how the male trainee surgeons would have received the most graphic images. Drawing on studies of early modern visual culture and the history of male sociability, I reconstruct the overlapping meanings that the pictures could have acquired. I argue that their instructions for how to intervene on male bodies were framed by concerns about sodomy, which, while probably common, in early modern Rome was also closely policed, not least using surgeons' medico-legal advice. By contrast, the pictures also shared in the long-standing association of orifices with carnivalesque humour. While some visual strategies might have been adopted to minimise that, entertainment was integral to education. When contextualised both in their visual and medical tradition and the social and cultural frames in which they were received, these images of orifices enrich our understanding of premodern perceptions of bodies and their boundaries.
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Terracina nel Medioevo La cattedrale e la città
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Maria Teresa Gigliozzi
2026
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Caterina Cappuccio (Sehepunkte, 6,3, 2026): on A. Paravicini Bagliani, Sorpresi dalla storia, Firenze, Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo 2025
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Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
2026
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Giovanni Gasbarri - Forme e ideologie di una (ri)scoperta. Il Medioevo di Roma tra Ottocento e Novecento [Forms and Ideologies of a (Re)discovery: Medieval Rome between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries]
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Giovanni Gasbarri
2026, Maria Barosso. Artista e archeologa nella Roma in trasformazione
This essay examines how medieval Rome was rediscovered between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a complex interplay of scholarship, politics, archaeology, restoration, and urban transformation. It argues that the city’s...
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This essay examines how medieval Rome was rediscovered between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a complex interplay of scholarship, politics, archaeology, restoration, and urban transformation. It argues that the city’s medieval past, never wholly absent from Rome’s fabric, was nonetheless redefined by competing ideological agendas after 1870, when the new capital of unified Italy became the stage for conflicting visions of Roman, papal, and national identity. From Séroux d’Agincourt and the reconstruction debates surrounding San Paolo fuori le mura to the rise of Christian archaeology, new research institutions, archival access, archaeological discoveries, exhibitions, and restoration campaigns, the article reconstructs the fragmented process by which medieval Rome entered modern historical consciousness. It also shows how Fascist policies selectively appropriated this heritage, privileging monumental forms aligned with imperial romanità, while other scholars and institutions preserved more nuanced and historically layered interpretations of the city’s medieval past.
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Tivoli dopo Worms, II. La cattedrale all’ombra del campanile
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Francesco Gangemi
2026, Lungo la via Tiburtina Valeria nel Medioevo. Opere, artisti, culti e committenti (secc. XI-XV)
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All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without the prior permission of the publisher. La traduzione, l'adattamento totale o parziale, la riproduzione con qualsiasi mezzo (compresi microfilm, film e fotocopie), nonché la memorizzazione elettronica sono riservati per tutti i Paesi. La casa editrice resta a disposizione dei detentori di eventuali diritti che non fosse riuscita a raggiungere
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La «Garcineida» et le cérémonial de la cour pontificale, in Zwischen Rom und Santiago. Festschrift für K. Herbers zu seinem 65. Geburtstag, Bochum, Verlag Dr. Dieter Winkler, 2016, 336-46.
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Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
2026
La «Garcineida» et le cérémonial de la cour pontificale, in Zwischen Rom und Santiago. Festschrift für Klaus Herbers zu seinem 65. Geburtstag, ed. Claudia Alraum, Andreas Holndonner, Hans-Christian Lehner, Cornelia Scherer, Thorsten...
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La «Garcineida» et le cérémonial de la cour pontificale, in Zwischen Rom und Santiago. Festschrift für Klaus Herbers zu seinem 65. Geburtstag, ed. Claudia Alraum, Andreas Holndonner, Hans-Christian Lehner, Cornelia Scherer, Thorsten Schlauwitz, Veronika Unger, Bochum, Verlag Dr. Dieter Winkler, 2016, 336-46 (reed. in Le monde symbolique de la papauté. Corps, gestes, images d’Innocent III à Boniface VIII, Firenze, Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo 2020 [Millennio Medievale, 118, Strumenti e Studi, 46], 73-89).
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გერონტი ქიქოძის წიგნის ერთი „მოგზაური ეგზემპლარი“
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Gocha Kuchukhidze
2026
This report deals with the book maintained at the personal library of emigrant writer, residing in the Europe after World War II, doctor of philosophy, Ilia Kuchukhidze, in particular, “The National Energy” by Geronti Kikodze. Desire...
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This report deals with the book maintained at the personal library of emigrant writer, residing in the Europe after World War II, doctor of philosophy, Ilia Kuchukhidze, in particular, “The National Energy” by Geronti Kikodze. Desire to make this report was caused by the fact that it contains the notes of young people living in 20s of the 20th century (after Sovietization of the country), many of which deserve particular attention, as they reveal worldview of these young people. The book contains Simon Chikovani’s inscription, stating that he had gifted this work by Geronti Kikodze to Ilia Kuchukhidze; on one of the pages, Ambrosi Makharadze (future famous lawyer) has written “this is a good book”; on the other page, he has written: “Amb. Makharadze – to Sharashenidze” (i.e., we can see that he has gave this book to their friend); the inscriptions demonstrate that this book achieved Alexander Sharashenidze and the latter, as a sign of his appreciation, has underlined one of the paragraphs of Kikodze’s article (“Fight and Agreement”), mentioning that the nations have no permanent friends or enemies and he has made his signature there: “Sharashenidze Alexandre”. There are in this book notes by others...
In relation with Geronti Kikodze’s article about Vazha-Pshavela, Ilia Kuchukhidze wrote: “Vazha was not a contemporary symbolist”; and on the letter, where Geronti Kikodze discussed heavy condition of his contemporary Georgian national architecture, Ilia Kuchukhidze wrote: “We are on the way of degradation”. Mentioned writer, in exile, fought for strengthening of the national awareness for entire his life and his inscriptions on Geronti Kikodze’s book show that similar to his friends, he supported in Soviet Georgia the national liberation movement and served to these ideas since he was young.
“The National Energy” by Geronti Kikodze was unacceptable for the USSR in 20s (it was regarded as a nationalist work). We can see one of the examples of how this banned book travelled between young people of that period and this shows one of the small but interesting episodes of the history of 20s.
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In Geardagum
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malkhaz abuladze
2026
In geardagum ანუ ძველი ინგლისური ენის ზარდახშიდან
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The Suburbium of Rome in the Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
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Federico Marazzi
2026, A companion to Rome (c. 400 - c. 1050)
Defining the limits of this contribution is complex, since it requires framing synthetically a concept which was polysemic and variable over time. The suburbium of Rome was (or may have been) at the same time a geographical,...
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Defining the limits of this contribution is complex, since it requires framing synthetically a concept which was polysemic and variable over time. The suburbium of Rome was (or may have been) at the same time a geographical, administrative, economic, and also political entity, whose boundaries changed several times in the period between late antiquity and the Middle Ages. From a geographic point of view, the suburbium is the flat or slightly hilly area with a predominantly volcanic and sedimentary geological matrix, running along the lower course of the Tiber, in the middle of which Rome was built. It is bounded to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, to the north by Lake Bracciano, the Sabatini mountains, and the hills upon which Formello, Sacrofano, Castelnuovo di Porto, and Capena stand; to the northeast by the hills behind Monterotondo and Mentana, to the east by the Tiburtini and Prenestini mountains, and to the south by the Colli Albani and Tuscolani. With the possible exception of the Tiburtini and Prenestini mountains, which rise quite abruptly from the plain, these boundaries are more transitional zones than real barriers, and in some cases, it is difficult to define precisely where the suburbium ends and other zones begin. This is especially true on the coast, but the problem also arises in other places, such as the valley area between the Prenestini mountains and the Tuscolani hills. From a geological point of view, the volcanic matrix was formed by eruptions in the volcanic districts of the Sabatini mountains, the Colli Albani, and Tuscolani mountains, while the sedimentary matrix was generated by the fluvial plain of the Tiber as well as other minor watercourses that flow towards the Tyrrhenian Sea, chiefly the Arrone, the outlet of Lake Bracciano. This latter mainly affects the areas close to the sea and has expanded significantly since the Roman and late antique period; the current locations of Ostia Antica and the port of Trajan, originally adjacent to the coastline, are now about 3 km distant from it.
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Rom als Diskursort der Heterodoxie und Stadt der Apostel und Märtyrer: Zur Semantik von Augustins Rombild-Konstruktionen
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Therese Fuhrer
2026, in: H. Harich-Schwarzbauer/K. Pollmann (Hgg.), Der Fall Roms und seine Wiederauferstehungen in Antike und Mittelalter (Berlin/Boston 2013) 53-75
Augustin hat das excidium urbis Romae, wie er die Katastrophe von 410 nennt, 1 aus der Perspektive des Bischofs von Hippo in Predigten, Briefen und dann auch in den ersten Büchern von De civitate dei kommentiert; 2 er hat sich vor seiner...
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Augustin hat das excidium urbis Romae, wie er die Katastrophe von 410 nennt, 1 aus der Perspektive des Bischofs von Hippo in Predigten, Briefen und dann auch in den ersten Büchern von De civitate dei kommentiert; 2 er hat sich vor seiner Gemeinde und im Gedankenaustausch mit Freunden und Gegnern über sie geäußert, über die Folgen, das Leid der Betroffenen, die Zerstörung der Stadt, 3 er hat zur Barmherzigkeit gegenüber den Flüchtlingen aufgerufen, die bereits vor 410 nach Africa gekommen waren und nun erneut kamen. 4 Seine Kommentare zu dem Ereignis sind bemerkenswert pragmatisch und nüchtern, dabei aber auch theologisch fundiert: Augustin wertet die Bedeutung der irdischen, materiellen Existenz der Ewigen Stadt (der Roma aeterna) ab im Vergleich mit der Ewigkeit des Seins, das die Menschen im Jenseits erwartet. Diese Gedanken fügen sich in De civitate dei zu einer Geschichtstheologie zusammen, die die Existenz der terrena civitas von derjenigen der civitas caelestis kategorial unterscheidet. 5
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Lead-Induced Metabolic Disease in non-adults from Roman-period Croatia: Paleopathological and Chemical Analysis from Roman Tragurium
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Anna Osterholtz
2026, Poster Presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists Meeting
Excavations in 2011, 2016, and 2020 at two Tragurium cemetery sites- the Tragurium Communal Necropolis (TCN) at the Dobrić and Muline sites and a Roman villa at the Dragulin site (VR) revealed the burials of those interred during the...
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Excavations in 2011, 2016, and 2020 at two Tragurium cemetery sites- the Tragurium Communal Necropolis (TCN) at the Dobrić and Muline sites and a Roman villa at the Dragulin site (VR) revealed the burials of those interred during the Roman period (roughly between 50 BCE-ACE 600). Included in the funerary assemblage were the remains of over 70 individuals who died under the age of two years (with the majority dying around 40 gestational weeks). These individuals exhibited extreme manifestations of metabolic disease, including CO, PH, and periosteal deposition in patterns suggestive of rickets and scurvy. Given the typical Roman diet and the coastal location, the identification of metabolic disease necessitated an understanding of the cultural context--were there cultural factors that limited the consumption of Vitamin C rich foods (by the mother, given the young age at death of the individuals studied) or limited the amount of exposure to sunlight (to inhibit the synthesis of Vitamin D)? Was the metabolic disease due to environmental contaminants such as exposure to lead? This poster presents preliminary results of 40 individuals with paired paleopathological analysis and elemental lead testing. Here, we correlate the estimated age at death, pathological condition, and lead concentration for these individuals. Findings suggest that paleopathological changes consistent with metabolic disease reflect lead-induced pathology within this cemetery population. The prevalence of high lead levels in preterm and perinatal individuals further implicates maternal exposure during pregnancy and lactation as a primary
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Osterholtz et al Lead-Induced Metabolic Disease AABA
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Anna Osterholtz
2026
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Mostra didattica online Living with ruins / Vivere con le rovine
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Francesca Mattei
2026
Nell’ambito del corso Roma e il Rinascimento, tenuto da Francesca Mattei presso il Dipartimento di Architettura dell'Università degli Studi Roma Tre, studentesse e studenti hanno svolto l’esercitazione Vivere con le rovine. É stato...
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Nell’ambito del corso Roma e il Rinascimento, tenuto da Francesca Mattei presso il Dipartimento di Architettura dell'Università degli Studi Roma Tre, studentesse e studenti hanno svolto l’esercitazione Vivere con le rovine. É stato chiesto loro di analizzare in modo approfondito un disegno rinascimentale raffigurante una porzione di Roma e di confrontarlo con la configurazione attuale della città, realizzando una fotografia scattata dallo stesso punto di vista ritratto dal disegno. Il titolo dell’esercitazione echeggia uno degli obiettivi del progetto VeLoCi, volto all’analisi dell'esperienza della convivenza con le rovine nella sua dimensione simbolica e materiale. Il progetto didattico è stato svolto all'interno delle attività del progetto PRIN 2022 VeLoCi. Una selezione degli elaborati prodotti durante il corso è visibile a questo link
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FORTINI CARCER volume l'erma div
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patrizia fortini
2026
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Accoglienza e strutture ricettive a Borgo nel Quattrocento, in Borgo. Il quartiere del papa tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, a cura di Anna Esposito, Roma 2025, pp. 51-65.
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Daniele Lombardi
2026, Roma
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Il preludio del Rinascimento. L'antichità nell'epigrafia medievale di Roma (secoli X-XIV)
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Lorenzo Curatella
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Federica Cosenza
2026, Hortus Artium Medievalium 29
Rome has always had a privileged relationship with antiquity, with different nuances in the Middle Ages. Citizens, elites, and foreign rulers reused classical elements in architecture, art, and epigraphy as symbols of prestige, wealth,...
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Rome has always had a privileged relationship with antiquity, with different nuances in the Middle Ages. Citizens, elites, and foreign rulers reused classical elements in architecture, art, and epigraphy as symbols of prestige, wealth, and legitimacy. Ancient materials and inscriptions were reemployed not only for decoration but also for their symbolic power: phrases and terms from classical literature circulated in Rome long before the Renaissance. Ancient heritage thus became a tool of authority and self-determination, especially for the Commune, which claimed continuity with Rome’s past, but also for ecclesiastical power, which exploited it for prestige. Medieval epigraphic practices anticipated Renaissance models, and their study reveals diverse medieval attitudes toward antiquity and the roots of later classical revival
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მედეას მითი და ისტორიული რეალიები (ძველი საბერძნეთისა და კოლხეთის მაგალითი) /Medea’s Myth and Historical Realities (The Case of Ancient Greece and Colchis)
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Gocha Kuchukhidze
2026
According to German scientist, Ludwig Preller, Medea, character known in the Greek mythology was goddess of the moon in early period. In this article we made attempt to clarify the meaning of Greek name Mēdeia. In our opinion, in the...
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According to German scientist, Ludwig Preller, Medea, character known in the Greek mythology was goddess of the moon in early period. In this article we made attempt to clarify the meaning of Greek name Mēdeia. In our opinion, in the research related to genesis of this name, we need to take into account ancient Greek word Mḗnē (“Moon”) and the forms of such lexemes denoting the moon in one of the previous periods, as: modern English Moon, German Mond (there is a view that the mentioned lexemes originate from Proto-Indo-European root *me/n/ses-), also – Latin Deus (from which originates Italian Dio /“God”) and other words of this semantics and we offer that the name Mēdeia could mean Moon Goddess.
We consider, in Hellenic myths and ancient Georgian folk epos – Amiraniani, there is mythologized trace of one and the same historical events. In this respect, the notable facts are that the name of Amiraniani’s female haracter has the moon semantics – Kamar (this is the name of Arabian origin /ḳamar – “Moon”)… Amiran fought with Kamar’s father, took the daughter from him, Kamar at a  time betrayed her father and supported him in fight with her father; Medea has similarly betrayed her father, Aeetes and helped Jason to steal the Golden Fleece…
As Ludwig Preller mentioned, Corinthian myth presents Medea’s father Aeetes (son of Helios, god of sun) as the character initially living in Corinth, further he, together with his daughter moved to Colchis. In the article we offer the view that the mentioned myth describes the actual historical fact that there were the temples built in Corinth after Aeetes and Medea and later similar temples were built in Colchis as well and this, possibly, occurred in the period, when there emerged Greek polices (8th-7th BC). In this work we assumed that the episodes of betrayal of their fathers’ families by Medea and Kamar describe the fight between a local Colchian and in a Greek polis located temples in mythological form. We suppose that one of the local temples, the main cult of which was assumedly Amiran, attempted to spread its influence over the temple of Goddess Medea subordinated to Aeetes before; that Medea’s chapel desired to get under this influence and these were the facts that were described by Georgian myth in figurative form…
The article admits that possibly, there can be identified the specific persons related to Colchis in the myths, for example, we can assume that a priestess in Medea’s preaching house with the name identical to her goddess, desired to be under the influence of Colchian temple and she betrayed the temple of the sun named after Aeetes, with which she was closely related before…
We suppose that similar to the Hellenic myths, in the later period, the Georgian ones were changed as well (e.g. we offer that Kamar obtained her name after 7th-8th centuries, at a time of Arabian expansion to Georgia and before, she had the other name meaning moon).
The work offers some other views as well.
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მეფე დემეტრე I-ის სტრატეგია, 2023 წ.
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Aleksandre Tsikoridze
2026, მეფე დემეტრე I-ის სტრატეგია
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Mirabili resti. Monumenti, tracce e discontinuità temporali nella letteratura araba medievale e moderna
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Elisabetta Benigni
2026, Rivista degli Studi Orientali 98/4, A Wondrous Arabist. Studies in Memory of Angelo Arioli / Un arabista mirabile. Studi in ricordo di Angelo Arioli, ed. by Elisabetta Benigni, Laura Guazzone, and Tommaso Tesei
The depiction of ruins is a recurring theme in Arabic literature, originating in its foundational textspre-Islamic poetry-and persisting through medieval poetry, geographical literature, and Adab anthologies. Drawing on these sources,...
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The depiction of ruins is a recurring theme in Arabic literature, originating in its foundational textspre-Islamic poetry-and persisting through medieval poetry, geographical literature, and Adab anthologies. Drawing on these sources, this paper presents an excursus on the theme of ruins in medieval, pre-modern, and Nahḍa-era texts. The central hypothesis is to show how the representations of ruins, characterized by the themes of wonder (ʿajab) and admonition (ʿibra), reflect the perception of what is time, history and the complex cartography of the Islamic past(s). Nel 2003 il Professor Arioli ha pubblicato il libro Le città mirabili. Labirinto arabo medievale, un'opera fra l'erudizione arabistica e il saggio letterario. Si tratta di una raccolta di descrizioni di città reali e fantastiche tratte dalla letteratura araba medievale, un labirinto di testi in cui lettore è libero di vagare guidato unicamente dalla propria curiosità, senza che riferimenti di contesto come la cronologia, il nome dell'autore o il titolo originale dell'opera disturbino il suo viaggio. Al fine di accentuare il carattere evocativo, se vogliamo straniante, suscitato dalla descrizione dei luoghi antichi, lontani, immaginari, il libro non presenta mappe, nonostante le descrizioni siano tratte, principalmente, dalla letteratura geografica. Il fine del Professor Arioli, d'altra parte, è quello di ancorare le sue città mirabili all'immaginazione piuttosto che alla realtà, come egli stesso esplicita nella famosa citazione di Melville: «It is not written down in any map; true places never are». L'apparente disordine di questo itinerario si ricompone nell'assoluto rigore filologico nelle scelte traduttive e nelle appendici, in cui sono esposte le biografie degli autori e un indice delle concordanze. Il procedimento
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ჟ. XIX საუკუნე _ ეპოქათა მიჯნა; # 4; 2024. /J. XIX Century _ At the Crossroads of Epochs; # 4; 2024.
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Gocha Kuchukhidze
2026
Gocha Kuchukhidze, On Lermontov’s "Demon" and its Literary Sources (Lermontov and Baratashvili)
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The Pantheon in the Middle Ages: The Tomb Slabs of Santa Maria ad Martyres in Rome (c. 1250-c.1500)
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Lorenzo Curatella
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Federica Cosenza
2026, Tomb Monument in Medieval Europe. Vol. 1
The 11th-Century Rise in Monumental Funerary Sculpture and the Beginnings of the Romanesque gisant in Europe Vinni Lucherini The Angevin Royal Tombs in Naples and their Kinship Discourses (132343)
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The Bees in the Baldacchino: Paradise Lost as a Subversive Topography of Barberini Rome.
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Avishai Roif
2026
This article proposes a new reading of John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), arguing that the epic functions as a subversive topography of Rome under the Barberini papacy. Drawing upon archival evidence of Milton’s 1638-1639 Italian...
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This article proposes a new reading of John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), arguing that the epic functions as a subversive topography of Rome under the Barberini papacy. Drawing upon archival evidence of Milton’s 1638-1639 Italian journey, papal diplomatic correspondence, and the material history of Bernini’s architectural transformations, this study demonstrates that the infernal capital of Pandemonium encodes specific satirical references to the Barberini palace-complex and St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Reading and Commenting Gregory the Theologian: Davit Tbeli’s Translations
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Maia Matchavariani
2026, Digital Kartvelology Volume 4 Dedicated to the 100th (The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities )Birthday of Mzekala Shanidze (16.1.2026)
In the intellectual tradition of the Middle Ages, translation was often conceived as an exegetical process rather than a purely linguistic operation. This article examines such an interpretive approach through the Georgian translations of...
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In the intellectual tradition of the Middle Ages, translation was often conceived as an exegetical process rather than a purely linguistic operation. This article examines such an interpretive approach through the Georgian translations of Gregory the Theologian produced by the 11th-century Georgian translator Davit Tbeli. Although Davit does not provide explicit commentaries, his translations reveal a consistent interpretive stance expressed through additions, omissions, paraphrases, and lexical choices. These interventions reflect his understanding of the theological content of the source texts and their intended reception by a Georgian audience.
The study reconstructs Davit Tbeli’s activity on the basis of manuscript evidence and situates his work within the broader context of Georgian translation practices, particularly in relation to Euthymius the Hagiorite. While sharing the general aim of making complex texts accessible, Davit adopts a more restrained method, remaining closer to the Greek original. His consistent handling of theological terminology and biblical quotations positions him as a transitional figure between the Athonite and later Hellenophile translation traditions, and as an important stage in the development of Georgian theological-philosophical vocabulary.
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Die sechzehneckige Kapelle im Dom zu Magdeburg, Heinrich Apel zum 65. Geburtstag
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Heiko Brandl
2026, Hallesche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 2, hrsg. von Wolfgang Schenkluhn
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“Uno degli unici avanzi di abitazione medievale in Roma”: lo studio della torre degli Anguillara (1892-1896)
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Marina Docci
2026, BOLLETTINO DEL CENTRO DI STUDI PER LA STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA. - ISSN 2611-3147
The first programme proposed by the “Commissione dei Rioni”, in 1892, included the study of all known medieval houses, especially in the district of Trastevere, and of five fortified complexes, as the Anguillara tower and palace. The...
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The first programme proposed by the “Commissione dei Rioni”, in 1892, included the study of all known medieval houses,
especially in the district of Trastevere, and of five fortified complexes, as the Anguillara tower and palace. The Anguillara
complex in Trastevere had been in a state of decay for years, and the town-planning scheme compiled in 1873, and the
following one compiled in 1883, required wide changes and the tower demolition to allow the construction of Viale del Re.
Therefore, since 1892, the members were involved in the protection of the fortification remains and, carrying out a study
and an in-depth survey, discovered a second medieval tower, never hypothesized before. The essay focuses on the role played
by the Cultori, in particular on the crucial contribution by Rodolfo Kanzler, architect and archaeologist – disciple of Giovan
Battista De Rossi – to whom the survey and the final report regarding the study are attributable.
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Il Romanesco dal secondo Novecento a oggi - 1. Mario dell'Arco | Mauro Marè
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Niccolò Brunelli
2026
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Tra continuità e innovazione: nomi in campagna, nomi in città nel marchesato di Mantova (1417-1479), in Il nome e il dove, a c. di E. Canobbio, M. Della Misericordia, M. Gentile, QSSMD 9, 2026, https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/SSMD/issue/view/2707
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Isabella Lazzarini
2026
The essay focuses on the lordship, then marquisate, of the Gonzaga over Mantua in the 15th century. It considers a broad group of sources in order to enlighten both male and female onomastics and to list names taken from different...
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The essay focuses on the lordship, then marquisate, of the Gonzaga over Mantua in the 15th century. It considers a broad group of sources in order to enlighten both male and female onomastics and to list names taken from different socio-professional contexts. Sources such as the registers of appointments to offices (1407-1500) or the lists of oaths of allegiance to the marquises (1479) – in which the names are all males – are juxtaposed with a list of the male and female recipients of a town-wide dispensatio of wheat (1417) and a sample of the onomastic indices of notarial deeds registered at the officium registri instrumentorum of Mantua (1417, 1444, 1479, again with male and female actors). The analysis of such an anthology of different ‘snapshots’ of groups of names at various levels of the social scale, allows us to explore onomastic possibilities and variants in the city and in the countryside, and over a broad and diverse chronology which spans over the 15th century.
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De Niederhaslach à Rome : sur les traces de Johannes Burckard, maître de cérémonie des papes (1450-1506)
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Boris Dottori
2026, Revue d'Alsace
L’alsacien Johannes Burckard (vers 1450-1506) a connu une destinée hors du commun. Originaire d’un petit village monastique de la vallée de la Bruche, Niederhaslach, il sera chassé de Strasbourg pour des délits de vol et de faux en...
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L’alsacien Johannes Burckard (vers 1450-1506) a connu une
destinée hors du commun. Originaire d’un petit village monastique de la
vallée de la Bruche, Niederhaslach, il sera chassé de Strasbourg pour des
délits de vol et de faux en écriture et cherchera fortune à Rome. Dans la
ville des papes, Burckard connaîtra une ascension extraordinaire, jusqu’à
devenir maître de cérémonie de la chapelle pontificale et, à la fin de sa vie,
évêque d’Orte et Civita Castellana. De Niederhaslach à Rome, en passant
par Strasbourg, nous nous intéresserons aux lieux où Burckard a vécu et,
comme c’est le cas pour sa résidence romaine, laissé son empreinte.
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L'ARSENALE PER IL CORSO
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Rodrigo Álex Ramírez Zambrano
2026
In sala operatoria, accanto al chirurgo, opera una figura la cui competenza è tanto essenziale quanto discreta: lo strumentista. Non tocca il paziente, non pratica l'incisione, eppure l'intero intervento dipende dalla sua maestria....
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In sala operatoria, accanto al chirurgo, opera una figura la cui competenza è tanto essenziale quanto discreta: lo strumentista. Non tocca il paziente, non pratica l'incisione, eppure l'intero intervento dipende dalla sua maestria. Conosce ogni strumento, ne prevede l'uso, lo prepara al momento giusto, lo passa al chirurgo con gesto preciso. Un bisturi fuori tempo, una pinza inadeguata, e l'operazione fallisce non per incompetenza del medico ma per difetto dell'assistenza strumentale. La ricerca che stiamo per intraprendere esige analoga sapienza. Lo studioso che si accinge a esplorare i rapporti tra Chiesa e potere politico nell'arco dei secoli non può procedere disarmato, né tantomeno equipaggiato a caso. Deve conoscere i propri strumenti: dove trovarli, quando impiegarli, come maneggiarli. Un'enciclopedia consultata troppo tardi, una fonte primaria ignorata, una bibliografia antiquata non aggiornata-e il lavoro, per quanto brillante nelle intenzioni, rivela lacune strutturali che nessuna eloquenza stilistica può mascherare. Questo documento non è un elenco bibliografico. È una mappa degli strumenti essenziali per chi voglia lavorare sulla storia del papato e dei suoi rapporti con i poteri temporali. Come lo strumentista che prepara il campo operatorio disponendo ogni utensile secondo la sequenza prevista dell'intervento, così lo storico deve saper predisporre il proprio arsenale bibliografico, riconoscendo a ciascuno strumento la funzione propria, il momento d'uso, i limiti e le potenzialità.
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"Prendete frequentemente el dolce pasto della sementa del divino sermone" - Anteprima Tesi magistrale
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Marco Miele
2026
Tesi magistrale in Scienze Storiche discussa nell'anno accademico 2023-2024.
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L. EBANISTA, Lo sfruttamento dei laghi come vivai ittici: il caso dei bacini lacustri pontini, in M. BARAHONA OVIEDO (a cura di), Dighe, argini e sbarramenti. Il dominio e la gestione delle acque nell'Italia romana, CSIC 2025, pp. 103-113
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Laura Ebanista
2026
This paper deals with the issue of the regimentation of the coastal lakes of the Pontine plain in the context of the exploitation of fish resources. Coastal lakes have been used since ancient times, but still until very recent times, as...
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This paper deals with the issue of the regimentation of the coastal lakes of the Pontine plain in the context of the
exploitation of fish resources. Coastal lakes have been used since ancient times, but still until very recent times, as real
tanks for fish farming. Also, through an ethnographic contribution relating to fish farming in the lakes during the last
century, under the ownership of the Caetani family, the fishing techniques in the Pontine lagoons are analysed. Particular
interest is reserved for the hydraulic management of the Rio Martino, within its system of locks, for the organization of
fish farming in Fogliano Lake.
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Storie di Storia setina
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Marco Miele
2026
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Death in Early Medieval Rome
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Michela Stefani
2026, A Companion to Rome (c.400-c.1500) Volume I- II (Edited by C. Goodson, J. Hillner)
This chapter provides an overview of death and burial in Rome from the 8th to the 11th century, focusing on burial topography and early medieval funerary rituals. Research in this area remains limited and fragmentary due to scarce written...
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This chapter provides an overview of death and burial in Rome from the 8th to the 11th century, focusing on burial topography and early medieval funerary rituals. Research in this area remains limited and fragmentary due to scarce written sources, few funerary inscriptions, and the widespread practice of burying within churches, which largely destroyed early medieval urban cemeteries. The chapter draws on surviving texts, inscriptions, and a close study of early medieval church phases, highlighting recent discoveries and suggesting directions for future research.
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Intervista al Prof. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
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Lukasz Zak
2026, Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia
Il professor Agostino Paravicini Bagliani è senza dubbio uno dei più eminenti storici del Medioevo, noto per la profondità delle sue ricerche e per il suo essenziale contributo allo studio del papato. Nato a Bergamo nel 1943, ha iniziato...
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Il professor Agostino Paravicini Bagliani è senza dubbio uno dei più eminenti storici del Medioevo, noto per la profondità delle sue ricerche e per il suo essenziale contributo allo studio del papato. Nato a Bergamo nel 1943, ha iniziato il suo percorso accademico presso l'Università di Friburgo, dove ha conseguito il dottorato nel 1968. Dopo un periodo di ricerca a Roma, presso la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, si è trasferito a Losanna, dove per molti anni ha occupato la cattedra di storia medievale. Dal 2008 al 2024, il professor Paravicini Bagliani ha presieduto la Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (sismel), istituzione di prestigio internazionale impegnata nella promozione degli studi medievali, della quale oggi è il Presidente onorario. Durante il suo mandato, ha diretto importanti progetti dedicati alla codicologia, all'antropologia storica e alle digital humanities, rafforzando il ruolo della sismel come riferimento nel settore. Tra le sue opere più significative spicca Il corpo del papa 1 , considerato un lavoro pionieristico nel campo degli studi sulla corporeità. Questo volume analizza la percezione e la rappresentazione del corpo del pontefice nel Medioevo, mettendo in luce l'intricato rapporto tra spiritualità, potere e cultura riguardo alla dimensione corporea. L'incontro da cui trae origine questa intervista si è svolto nel maggio 2024 a Roma, presso la Pontificia Università della Santa Croce.
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Basilica di Giunio Basso, pannello con pompa circensis
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Andrea Grazian
2026, Maria Barosso, artista e archeologa nella Roma in trasformazione, a cura di A.M. D’Amelio, M. Ficari, M. Gianandrea, I. Miarelli Mariani, D. Palombi con la collaborazione di A. Grazian ed E. Tosti
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Zara, S. Donato
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Andrea Grazian
2026, Maria Barosso, artista e archeologa nella Roma in trasformazione, a cura di A.M. D’Amelio, M. Ficari, M. Gianandrea, I. Miarelli Mariani, D. Palombi con la collaborazione di A. Grazian ed E. Tosti
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La summa Sacra via
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Andrea Grazian
2026, Maria Barosso, artista e archeologa nella Roma in trasformazione, a cura di A.M. D’Amelio, M. Ficari, M. Gianandrea, I. Miarelli Mariani, D. Palombi con la collaborazione di A. Grazian ed E. Tosti
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GIULIA BORDI, Artisans in Rome: Textile Craft and Trade - Chapter 16
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Giulia Bordi
2026, A Companion to Rome (c. 400–c. 1050), ed. by Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner
This is the rst volume of a two-volume work. Volume 2 can be found here. The city of Rome had a remarkable and complex urban continuity even after antiquity and it provided a model of urban living for other cities throughout the Middle...
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This is the rst volume of a two-volume work. Volume 2 can be found here. The city of Rome had a remarkable and complex urban continuity even after antiquity and it provided a model of urban living for other cities throughout the Middle Ages. Much existing research has nevertheless focused instead on Rome as the seat of papal power or as an in uential idea rather than a real place. This volume radically refocuses our attention on Rome's inhabitants, their identities, relationships, institutions, experiences, agencies, and spaces, and on how these local aspects interacted with the city's universal character. It also bridges two periods of the history of Rome that are typically separated, namely late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, through a unique design of mirrored essays on key themes of Rome's urban history. This volume brings to an Anglophone audience new scholarship from scholars across Europe and America.
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GIULIA BORDI, Sant’Agata a Roma: tra papi, Goti e Bizantini
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Giulia Bordi
2026, Agata, Euplo e Lucia. I primi martiri siciliani tra Tardoantico e Alto Medioevo. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi (Catania, 17-18 gennaio 2025). A cura di Antonino La Manna, Antonio Mursia e Cristina Soraci
This essay retraces the integration of St Agatha’s cult into Rome between the 6th and 9th centuries, showing how successive popes used her figure to shape religious identity and consolidate orthodoxy. From early suburban foundations under...
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This essay retraces the integration of St Agatha’s cult into Rome between the 6th and 9th centuries, showing how successive popes used her figure to shape religious identity and consolidate orthodoxy. From early suburban foundations under Gelasius I and Symmachus to Gregory the Great’s anti Arian re consecration in the Suburra, Agatha’s presence expands through relics, liturgy, and imagery. A newly contextualized 7th century portrait further illuminates her role in Rome’s devotional landscape. Under Hadrian I and Paschal I, Agatha becomes a key model of female sanctity, paired with major Roman saints and integrated into influential visual programs, confirming her full assimilation into both Roman and Byzantine traditions.
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