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Il feudalesimo nell'Europa moderna: temi e prospettive
2020
Riflessione storiografica sul tema e prospettive di ricerca Historiographic essay on the subject and new research perspectives
‘Independence is not given, it is taken’: the Ivorian cinquantenaire and competing history/ies of independence
2013
This article explores competing histories of independence in Cote d'Ivoire. The 2010 commemoration of fifty years of independence led to competing histories about how and if the nation achieved independence in 1960. The postelectoral crisis of 2010–2011 that followed soon afterwards has been interpreted by supporters of the outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo as an attempt by France and the international community to re-colonise Cote d'Ivoire. The article asks how different versions of this history are connected to different political projects and how they have changed through time. The article will analyse these processes of meaning-making in a historiology of Ivorian independence, thus cont…
Il cammino a ritroso: Schorn, Creuzer e il significato della scultura nel «Kunst-Blatt»
2012
The article investigates the reception of Creuzer's crucial text «Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen» by the editor of the German art review «Kunst-Blatt».
A Search for the Hidden King: Messianism, Prophecies and Royal Epiphanies of the Kings of Aragon (circa 1250-1520)
2019
Modern historiography has studied the influence of messianic and millennialist ideas in the Crown of Aragon extensively and, more particularly, how they were linked to the Aragonese monarchy. To date, research in the field of art history has mainly considered royal iconography from a different point of view: through coronation, historical or dynastic images. This article will explore the connections, if any, between millennialist prophetic visions and royal iconography in the Crown of Aragon using both texts and the figurative arts, bearing in mind that sermons, books and images shared a common space in late medieval audiovisual culture, where royal epiphanies took place. The point of depar…
L’origine dei feudi nei Regni di Napoli e Sicilia nell’opera di Giacinto Dragonetti
2016
The article focuses on Giacinto Dragonetti’s Origins of the Fiefs in the Neapolitan and Sicilian Kingdom. The book was published in 1788 as expression of the governmental policy concerning the good interpretation of the Volentes chapter and the right exerted by the fiscal system on the fiefs without heirs. Through a detailed analysis of the text and the context into which it was written, the article aims to deepen the knowledge of the cultural changes caused by the intertwining among historiography, politics and law into the framework of the discussions relating the feudal matter in the second half of the Eighteenth century. Paying particular attention to the epistemological and methodologi…
Il Mediterraneo di Giuseppe Galasso
2018
La visione del Mediterraneo di Giuseppe Galasso, uno dei maggiori storici italiani contemporanei, recentemente scomparso, che ha dedicato all’argomento diverse pagine su questa rivista, attraversandolo diacronicamente dall’antichità sino ai nostri giorni. The Mediterranean vision of one of the most important contemporary italian historians, recently deceased, who dedicated several pages on the subject in this journal, with a diachronic approach from antiquity to the present day
Voix hors champ: Stendhal historien de l'art contemporain dans l'Histoire de la peinture en Italie (1817)
2012
This article investigates Stendhal's ideas on contemporary French art as they shine through his «Histoire de la peinture en Italie» (1817) and the novel «La chartreuse de Parme» (1839).
Moving Localities and Creative Circulation: Travels as Knowledge Production in 18th-Century Europe
2014
In recent historiography of science, circulation has been widely used to weave global narratives about the history of science. These have tended to focus on flows of people, objects and practices rather than investigating the spread of universal patterns of knowledge. The approach has also, to a great extent, concentrated on colonial contexts and treated ‘European science’ as a more or less homogeneous knowledge realm. Furthermore, these studies of circulation have usually been tied to a contextualist view of knowledge formation in which locality is taken as a set of specificities linked with particular locations. In this article we redirect the focus of the discussion on circulation to Eur…
Rational vs historical reconstructions. A note on Blaug
2003
The paper focuses on Blaug's distinction between rational and historical reconstruction within the historiography of economics. Blaug's distinction is shown to be sterile and misleading and his definitions of no avail to clear thinking. Historical reconstruction (as defined by Blaug) is en empty box for reasons which are basically theoretical and not simply practical (as Blaug seems to hold). Moreover, Blaug's primary polemical target is Whig historiography and not rational reconstruction: the two concepts coincide only by means of an ad hoc definition. Blaug's criticism does not apply to other uses of the concept of rational reconstruction such as that proposed by Lakatos.
Afterword [part 2]: governing bodies and minds
2019
This brief comment is intended to provide some remarks on the possibility of placing the particular entanglements of ‘bodies and minds’ presented in this special issue of History of Education in a ...