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(2024)From 1947 to 1969, when Italy still had severe disparities and vast pockets of deprivation, the Foster Parents' Plan (FPP), an international organization, operated to support children who were victims of war – abandoned, ...
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(2024)At the end of the Second World War, recovering, safeguarding, rehabilitating and educating Jewish children who survived the Shoah became a common mission for humanitarian organizations involved in the rescue of European ...
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(2024)This chapter introduces the themes and case studies discussed in the volume and briefly delineates their historical background. It presents the variety of sources and methodological approaches adopted in the volume and ...
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(2024)The author broadens the question of the genesis of the republican experiences to a perspective that is not merely Italian. The space investigated is that of the empire between the late Middle Ages and the early modern age, ...
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(2024)The author focuses on Florentine libertas, identifying in the work of Coluccio Salutati the turning point between the polysemy of the notion in the previous ideological tradition of the city and the reorientation in a more ...
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(2024)The author identifies in the reflection and practice of fourteenth-century Italian cities with a communal tradition the development of a culture of autonomy that anticipated the 'republican' notion of freedom and political ...
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(2024)The author revisits the issue of religious "non-conformism" by focusing attention on the passage, between the 12th and 13th centuries, in which the overlap between Christian heresies and other religions was determined. ...
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(2024)The author focuses on the urban world to reformulate the question traditionally interpreted in terms of the entrepreneurial freedom of late medieval merchants: even in this context the notion of libertas, rather than ...
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(2024)The author highlights the characteristics of servitude and personal emancipation in the last centuries of the Middle Ages, tracing them not only to their legal dimension but to the decisive influence of economic and social ...
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(2024)The author's contribution is dedicated to the Italian cities of communal tradition, which addresses a theme of long tradition, ideological as well as historiographical, namely the connection between libertas and the 'people' ...
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(2024)The relationship between cities and sovereigns in the kingdoms of southern Italy is investigated by the author from a European perspective, highlighting how libertas was equivalent to the submission of communities to ...
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(2024)Three well-defined nuclei of analysis - the revolts of the barons against the king, the people's movements against the magnates and the peasant uprisings against serfdom - are instead the object of the recognition of the ...
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(2024)The author integrates the analysis of monarchical frameworks by also noting for the development of rural communities a weak use of the concept of freedom as well as a parallel aspiration to political emancipation: the ...
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(2024)The author reviews the history of monarchies and the sources of the practice to highlight how, unlike the experience of Italian municipal cities, the concept of freedom did not represent an omnipresent concept either in ...
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(2024)The author analyzes apostolic letters, conciliar decrees and canon law to highlight how, compared to the salient phase of monarchical affirmation between the 11th and 13th centuries - during which the libertas Ecclesiae ...
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(2024)The author analyzes mature medieval legal thought to highlight, around normative and jurisdictional freedoms, the affirmation of both a doctrine and a practice of the freedom to rule (of the potestas condendi statute) of ...
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(2024)The scrutiny of a present-day notarial document – specifically, the division of inherited real estate assets within a peasant family in the Eastern Liguria – affords an occasion to contemplate the configuration of a modest ...
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(2024)The contribution illustrates the work of a multidisciplinary group of scholars and designers, coordinated by the Author, responsible for drawing up a project for the valorisation of the Swabian-Angevin Fortress of Lucera, ...
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(2024)The author points out some reflections on hydraulic machines for the production of semi-finished wood and stone products between antiquity and the Middle Ages. Particular emphasis is placed on the role that stone cutting ...
