Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Italy

In this illuminating work, surveying 300 years and two nations, Sarah Gwyneth Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of "woman" in the West.

An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, The Birth of Feminism focuses on nineteen learned women from the middle ranks of society who rose to prominence in the world of Italian and English letters between 1400 and 1680. Drawing both on archival material--wills, letters, and manuscript compositions, some...

In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while Romans endured the unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon's best and brightest to pull the ancient city into the modern world. Against this historical backdrop, Nicassio weaves together an absorbing social, cultural, and political history of Rome and its people. Based on primary sources and incorporating two centuries of Italian, French, and...

Die Werke des Tacitus pragen bis heute das Bild, das die Nachwelt uber die fruhe romische Kaiserzeit besitzt. Dieses Bild muss jedoch kritisch auf seinen Wahrheitsgehalt gepruft werden. Denn dem eigenen Grundsatz der unparteilichen Berichterstattung bleibt Tacitus bei genauerer Analyse seiner Darstellung haufig nicht treu. Oft unterschwellig vermittelt er bei scheinbarer Objektivitat dem Leser seine rein subjektive Deutung der beschriebenen Vorgange. Anhand der Tiberiusbucher der Annalen stellt das Buch exemplarisch die Techniken dieser Leserlenkung vor. Besonderes Augenmerk wird...

Although the emperor's wreath is omnipresent in Roman art, little attention has been paid to it in classical scholarship, a gap filled by the present work. With recourse to archaeological and written sources, form, function and meaning of the wreaths in (primarily) imperial portraits are, for the first time, analysed and interpreted systematically. The main subject are laurel and oak wreaths. Their employment in cult, triumphs and the military domain is studied, as well as the development of a particular oak wreath, the so-called corona civica, into the imperial wreath par...

Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries, yet conservation efforts often pit the interests of historically rooted or indigenous peoples against the state and international environmental organizations, eroding local autonomy while "saving" rural land for animals and tourists. Wild Sardinia's examination of the cultural politics around nature conservation and the traditional Commons on an Italian island illustrates the complexities of environmental stewardship. Long known as the home of fiercely independent shepherds...