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Coinage and Coin Use in Medieval Italy

Coinage and Coin Use in Medieval Italy

The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy most of them newly translated into English. The articles in the first section of the volume trace the development of monetisation in Italy from the Lombard period until the rise of the communes taking Rome Lazio Tuscany and several cities and regions in north-central Italy as case studies. The articles in the second section analyse different aspects of monetary production and circulation in Byzantine Italy while the third gathers together studies on various aspects of Carolingian coinage: the transition from the Lombard system and the problem of furnishing an adequate supply of silver; mints and royal administration; and the activity and inactivity of mints operating at the edges of the Regnum Italiae. All of the articles share the author’s characteristic concern with setting the evidence from written sources against the wealth of new data emerging from recent archaeological research. | Coinage and Coin Use in Medieval Italy

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Social Structure In Italy

Social Structure In Italy

This book demonstrates that twentieth century social stratification and the distribution of political and economic power in Italy cannot be properly understood without carefully analyzing the historical dynamics of the development of Italian society. This analysis is also needed to explain the woeful economic and governmental and administrative performance of the strata that finally reached the levers of power. The Italian society and social and political system are in a crisis: development is uneven and the bureaucratic structures are in shambles. The roots of this crisis lie in the endemic underdevelopment typical of the second half of the nineteenth century. Clearly they cannot be attributed to the historic failures of Fascism Democracy Catholicism or Marxism in Italy but they are the outcome of a long history of underdevelopment followed by extremely uneven regional evolution leading to tremendous cleavages between ultra-modern and utterly antiquated phenomena the juxtaposition of flexibility and rigidity of optimistic enthusiasm and hidebound traditionalism of extreme wealth and abysmal poverty of high and low levels of earnings and of a maladjusted ill-functioning uneasy combination of agricultural industrial and post-industrial society. All this is aggravated by the crisis in the church and by the North-South situation in which many millions of people have migrated from the South to the North and by the ensuing struggle between a mass of lumpen proletarians and proletarian immigrants from the South who are exploited as a work force for the industrial development of the North. | Social Structure In Italy

GBP 125.00
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Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy

Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy

This collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy. It examines Italic Etruscan and Latin deities in context and in the material remains and also in the Greco-Roman written record and later scholarship which drew on these texts. Many deities were worshipped in ancient Italy by different individuals and communities using different languages at different sanctuaries and for very different reasons. This multiplicity creates challenges for modern historians of antiquity at different levels. How do we cope with it? Can we reduce it to the conceptual unity necessary to provide a meaningful historical interpretation? To what extent can deities named in different languages be considered the equivalent of one another (e. g. Artemis and Diana)? How can we interpret the visual representations of deities that are not accompanied by written text? Can we reconstruct what these deities meant to their local worshippers although the overwhelming majority of our sources were written by Romans and Greeks? The contributors of this book a group of ten scholars from the UK Italy France and Poland offer different perspectives on these problems each concentrating on a particular god or goddess. Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on ancient Roman and Italian religion.

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Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy in particular Lombardy and Venice during the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition the literature on the economics and society of northern Italy had hitherto dealt primarily with the major cities Milan Florence and Venice and their celebrated manufactures extensive commercial activities and banking. By contrast their countryside was largely neglected and its population dismissed as an undifferentiated mass of peasants fully engaged in farming. The essays in this volume represent as many soundings into this long forgotten rural world. As it turns out rural communities often harbored handicraft industries and the latter appear to have avoided the debacle that hit the urban economies and their celebrated manufactures highly regulated as they were by the guilds in the face of international competition. | Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

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Italy Before Italy Institutions Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States 1815-1860

Italy Before Italy Institutions Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States 1815-1860

Italian unification is one of the pivotal events in European history but the period leading up to Risorgimento has often been analysed in less detail. This book focuses on the history of the Italian states between 1815 and 1860 focusing on state institutions international relations economic and fiscal policies living conditions and culture. | Italy Before Italy Institutions Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States 1815-1860

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Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy A Sourcebook

Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy A Sourcebook

In the early Middle Ages (ninth to eleventh centuries) Italy became the target of Muslim campaigns. The Muslims conquered Sicily ruled her for more than two centuries and conducted many raids against the Italian Peninsula. During that period however Christians and Muslims did not always fight each other. Indeed sometimes they traded with the ‘other’ and visited the lands of the ‘other’. By presenting the annotated English translation of the early medieval primary sources about how Muslims and Christians perceived each other the circulation of news about them and their knowledge of their opponents this book aims to clarify the relationship between Muslims and Christians in early medieval Italy. Moreover it proves that in that period the faithful of the Cross and those of the Crescent were not so ignorant of one another as is commonly believed. Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: A Sourcebook is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates postgraduates and scholars interested in the relationships between Christians and Muslims in medieval Italy and the Mediterranean. | Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy A Sourcebook

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Italy in Transition Conflict and Consensus

Italy in Transition Conflict and Consensus

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important and despite the imperfections have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process and hope you enjoy this valuable book. | Italy in Transition Conflict and Consensus

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Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy

Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy

This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational assemblages. Drawing upon broadly posthumanist and new materialist theories concerning the thingliness of things it sets out to re-evaluate the role of the material world within Roman religion and to offer new perspectives on the formation of multi-scalar forms of ancient religious knowledge. It explores what happens when a materially informed approach is systematically applied to the investigation of typical questions about Roman religion such as: What did Romans understand ‘religion’ to mean? What did religious experiences allow people to understand about the material world and their own place within it? How were experiences of ritual connected with shared beliefs or concepts about the relationship between the mortal and divine worlds? How was divinity constructed and perceived? To answer these questions it gathers and evaluates archaeological evidence associated with a series of case studies. Each of these focuses on a key component of the ritualised assemblages shown to have produced Roman religious agency – place objects bodies and divinity – and centres on an examination of experiences of lived religion as it related to the contexts of monumentalised sanctuaries cult instruments used in public sacrifice anatomical votive offerings cult images and the qualities of divinity and magic as a situationally specific form of religious knowledge. By breaking down and then reconstructing the ritualised assemblages that generated and sustained Roman religion this book makes the case for adopting a material approach to the study of ancient lived religion. | Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy

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Reframing Immigrant Resistance Alliances Conflicts and Racialization in Italy

Reframing Immigrant Resistance Alliances Conflicts and Racialization in Italy

The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. This book focuses on the political participation and grassroots mobilization of immigrants and racialized communities in the European context. Based on extensive data collected in Italy it explores the role that alliances among pro-immigrant groups play in shaping political participation asking why and how immigrant activists mobilize in hostile environments why and how they create alliances with some white allies rather than others and what might explain variations in forms of political participation and grassroots mobilization at the local level. Using social movement critical race and post-colonial theories the author examines the ways in which both institutional and non-institutional actors including immigrant activists become involved and compete in the local arena over immigration and integration issues and assesses the mechanisms by which both conventional and non-conventional forms of participation are made possible or obstructed. By placing immigrant activists at the center of the analysis the book offers a valuable and novel insider perspective on political activism and the claims-making of marginalized groups. It also demonstrates how pro-immigrant groups can play a role in racializing immigrant activists. A study of the effects on participation in social mobilization of coalitions conflicts and racialization processes among pro-immigrant groups and immigrant activists this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology political science and political sociology with interests in migration ethnic and racial relations social movements and local governance. | Reframing Immigrant Resistance Alliances Conflicts and Racialization in Italy

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Chant and Notation in South Italy and Rome before 1300

Chant and Notation in South Italy and Rome before 1300

The fifteen studies assembled here grew out of research on south-Italian ordinary chants and tropes for the multi-volume series Beneventanum Troporum Corpus II edited by John Boe in collaboration with Alejandro Planchart. In the present essays clerical and ordinary chants and tropes of the Mass (especially when derived from paraliturgical hymns and poems) certain aspects of chant notation and particular facets of the old Beneventan and the old Roman chant repertories are examined in relation to the three main cultic centres of the Italian south - Benevento Montecassino and Rome - and as they relate to their European context namely Frankish and Norman chant and the varieties of chant sung in Italy north of Rome. The volume includes one previously unpublished study on the Roman introit Salus Populi. | Chant and Notation in South Italy and Rome before 1300

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The Renaissance Palace in Florence Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy

The Renaissance Palace in Florence Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy

This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence when applied to private palaces extended beyond the exterior to include the interior as a series of splendid spaces where virtuous expenditure could and should be displayed. Examining the fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo from a new perspective Lindow's groundbreaking study considers these buildings comprehensively as complete entities from the exterior through to the interior. This book highlights the ways in which classical theory and Renaissance practice intersected in quattrocento Florence. Using unpublished inventories private documents and surviving domestic objects The Renaissance Palace in Florence offers a more nuanced understanding of the early modern urban palace. | The Renaissance Palace in Florence Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy

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Corporate Social Involvement Social Political and Environmental Issues in Britain and Italy

Corporate Social Involvement Social Political and Environmental Issues in Britain and Italy

First published in 1998. This is an examination of corporate social responsibility in Britain and Italy. There is a growing interest in businesses rendering themselves more socially active and becoming more involved in addressing social problems. A number of British companies have been adopting many of the community practices that have characterized corporate life in America since the early 1960s. Corporate responsibility is defined as a business engagement in the wider community in order to contribute towards the general well-being of society. This study employs a hybrid methodology using a variety of sources including historical texts secondary studies and detailed case studies of corporate social programmes. Businesses studied include Shell BT Unilever and BAT Industries in Britain and Fiat Olivetti ENI IRI and Dioguardi in Italy. The study aims to provide a qualitative explanation of why companies go beyond their commercial remit to become engaged in communitarian and philanthropic action. Ultimately the book aims to present a socially and politically informed analysis placed in its historical and political context taking into consideration economic forces. | Corporate Social Involvement Social Political and Environmental Issues in Britain and Italy

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Gender Migration and Domestic Service The Politics of Black Women in Italy

Gender Migration and Domestic Service The Politics of Black Women in Italy

The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed almost exclusively as live-in domestic workers and detailed attention is paid to the history and political organization of this sector. Unlike much published work in Italian this book adopts an integrated form of analysis where gender ethnicity and class are seen to be interconnected constructs. The book also situates Black women within the framework of the national constituency of gender. This approach challenges the ideology surrounding the Italian family and demonstrates that while live-in domestic work created specific forms of social marginality for Black women it paradoxically allowed Italian women to express their new social identities within and outside the family. The book concludes that Italian women have largely failed in their attempts to transform the division of labour within the home and that the decision to employ other (migrant) women to fulfill household tasks is a trend which sits uneasily within the framework of an inclusive feminist project for women. | Gender Migration and Domestic Service The Politics of Black Women in Italy

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The Politics of Migration in Italy Perspectives on local debates and party competition

The Politics of Migration in Italy Perspectives on local debates and party competition

Migration represents one of the key issues in both Italian and European politics and it has triggered EU-wide debates and negotiations alongside alarmist and often sensationalist news reporting on the activities of government party and social movement actors. The Politics of Migration in Italy explores what happens when previously undiscussed issues become central to political agendas and are publicly debated in the mass media. Examining how political actors engage with the issue of migration in electoral campaigning this book highlights how complex policy issues are addressed selectively by political entrepreneurs and how the responses of political actors are influenced by strategic incentives and ongoing events. This book studies the dynamics of the politicization of the immigration issue across three local contexts in Italy – Prato Milan and Rome – which differ systematically with respect to crucial economic cultural and security dimensions of immigration. Offering an innovative exploration of party competition and migration in Italy as well as providing the conceptual and analytical tools to understand how these dynamics play out beyond the Italian case this book is essential reading for students scholars and policymakers working in the areas of migration studies agenda-setting and European politics more generally. | The Politics of Migration in Italy Perspectives on local debates and party competition

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Neorealist Architecture Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

Neorealist Architecture Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023*** After World War II a wave of Italian films emerged that depicted the life and hardships of characters left helpless after the conflict bringing to the screen the struggles of a time of existential angst and uncertainty. This form of filmmaking was associated with a broader artistic phenomenon known as ‘neorealism’ and is now considered a pivotal point in the history of Italian cinema. But neorealism was not limited to film any more than it was to literature. It spread to other areas of artistic production including architecture. What was then neorealist architecture? This book explores the links between architecture filmmaking and the built environment in dopoguerra Italy (194X–195X) seeking to ascertain whether and how neorealism manifested itself in architecture. Terms such as ‘neorealist architecture’ or ‘architectural neorealism’ were hinted at in these years and recalled by historians of architecture in the following decades. Therefore the concept was adopted ad hoc and popularized post hoc in the absence of any declarations prior to 1955 that proclaimed what neorealism in architecture was or wanted to be. However while the concept has been internalized by Italian architectural history transfers between neorealism—as an aesthetic and ethic—and architecture—as one potential medium of its embodiment or expression—are still not fully understood. Therefore its main goal is to provide an in-depth discussion of the concept ‘neorealist architecture’ the working assumption being that the connection between both terms is not meaningless. The book is beautifully illustrated with over 100 black and white archival images and is the first book to be published on neorealism in architecture. It will appeal to scholars professionals and students interested in history and theory of architecture Italian studies art history and cultural studies. | Neorealist Architecture Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

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