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Ceļš: Latvijas Universitātes Teoloģijas fakultātes teoloģisks, reliģijpētniecisks un kultūrvēsturisks izdevums, Nr. 65
2015
Le monastère Saint-Pierre d'Osor (île de Cres) : septième campagne d'études archéologiques
2013
The 2012 campaign of the archaeological research project permitted the exhaustive excavations of the immediate surroundings of the southern nave of the abbey church of St Peter in Osor. The richness and the complexity of the discovered structures confirmed the great archaeological potential of this sector. Namely, a funeral zone that is situated south to the church is occupied by two buildings perpendicular to the church which we interpret as a mausoleum (the one on the west) and a chapel with one privileged burial (the one on the east). The great number of built tombs or simples graves confirmed that this sector had funeral function even before the XIth century and the construction of the …
Attempts by non-Germans to obtain burgher rights in Riga in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
2020
The article deals with two unsuccessful attempts by non-German craftsmen to gain burgher rights in Riga, which would have entitled them to trade freely and keep taverns. In the early modern period,...
Le flair en images, ou comment est donnée à voir la communication olfactive
2016
How is the action of sniffing others, which has been depreciated by good manners and aesthetic standards, represented in pictures? In unveiling the theme of social sniffing, this essay aims to track variations around the odour of the body and olfactory communication in Western visual arts. This issue implies to examine the social roles of sui generis as well as artefactual human odours, and to assess figurative arts as a means to unveil historical trends in the forms and functions of the sense of smell in our culture. The corpus of figurative works consulted, far from exhaustive, stretches from medieval and classical allegories of smell to the visual language of perfume advertisements, thro…
Between post-colonial and global studies: mobility, government and coexistence in the territories of the Spanish Monarchy in the modern age
2020
After overcoming a predominantly Eurocentric vision, historiography of the late 20th century ventured further into considering the development of dynamics on a planetary scale, embracing the innovative instances and methodological suggestions of Post-Colonial studies, as well as those of World and Global Studies. Whether one accepts the paradigm of “globalisation” or rejects it, like for example, among others, Frederick Cooper – who considers it an empty conceptual shell, devoid of uniformity – it is a matter of fact that social sciences, and history among them, were influenced by it in their heuristic approach at understanding phenomena. In this perspective, and within a dialectic approach…
Attività musicale, patrocinio e condizione femminile nei monasteri palermitani (sec. XVII-XVIII)
2016
I rapporti tra istituzioni religiose femminili, mecenatismo musicale e contesto urbano sono da tempo riconosciuti e ampiamente studiati. Nonostante ciò si è prestata scarsa attenzione alla situazione siciliana, in particolare alla città di Palermo. Il contributo intende sottolineare il ruolo che la produzione musicale riuscì a giocare nella proiezione concreta e metaforica delle voci delle donne nel mondo e nella società esterni. Ciò valeva sia per le istituzioni che si distinguevano per la clausura delle monache che ospitavano, sia per i conventi che sfidavano regole e regolamenti. In ogni caso le monache usavano la musica come mezzo per negoziare i confini della loro reclusione e riafferm…
Introduction: Treasures and Magic
2012
Treasures were magical. Until the nineteenth century, buried treasures were shrouded with intricate webs of narratives. Most of these narratives had magical elements. Vestiges of that treasure magic have survived. In the summer of 2009, while I worked on this book, the spectacular discovery of an Anglo-Saxon treasure in Staffordshire made headlines. Metal detector enthusiast Terry Herbert, who had searched for treasure troves in vain for years, unearthed about 1500 gold and silver objects dating back to the seventh century. In an interview, Herbert told the press: I have this phrase that I say sometimes — ‘spirits of yesteryear take me where the coins appear’ — but on that day I changed coi…
TERREMOTO E RICOSTRUZIONE: MESSINA 1908, VERSO UNA PROGETTAZIONE “CONSAPEVOLE” : La teoria della maggiore resistenza delle strutture “circolari” e il…
2019
TERREMOTO E RICOSTRUZIONE: MESSINA 1908, VERSO UNA PROGETTAZIONE “CONSAPEVOLE” La teoria della maggiore resistenza delle strutture “circolari” e il contributo della pubblicistica al dibattito sulla costruzione antisismica. Le storie raccontate in questo volume esaminano congiuntamente il duplice sguardo della ricerca sulla progettazione orientata in senso antisismico e sviluppata nell’ambito del dibattito nato a Messina dopo il terremoto del 1908. Se ampie si rivelano le testimonianze di forme di progettazioni “consapevoli”, cioè di accorgimenti che integrano il problema sismico all’interno di convenzioni costruttive di durata secolare, durante le fasi che hanno preceduto le molteplici rico…
CATCOM: A Database on Performances of Spanish Classical Theater
2013
The research group DICAT (http://www.uv.es/dicat/index_en.html) has been working for almost twenty years on the creation of research instruments that will enhance scholars' knowledge of Early Modern Spanish theater through the use of digital tools that create new ways to combine and apply data.1 The database Diccionario biografico de actores del teatro clasico espanol (DICAT) (Ferrer Valls) was the result of work done during nearly fifteen years. The DICAT group created a database with almost five thousand entries, which document the activity of actors, actresses, heads of companies, and musicians who worked in Spanish professional theatrical companies during the sixteenth and seventeenth c…
New Architectural Models and Building Tradition: A Dialogue in Early Modern Sardinia - The Jesuit Church in Sassari
2014
L'architettura nella Sardegna di età moderna è caratterizzata da una forte continuità con pratiche antecedenti. Nella seconda metà del XVI secolo, nuovi modelli, legati in particolare alle nuove tendenze nel campo dell'architettura militare e il classicismo della controriforma cattolica, affiancano la tradizione costruttiva gotica.La chiesa dei Gesuiti di Sassari offre un interessante esempio di intreccio tra queste modalità architettoniche, causato da un improvviso cambio alla guida del cantiere. Giovan Maria Bernardoni, un architetto gesuita italiano, redasse il progetto iniziale della chiesa sul modello del Gesù di Roma, ed essa fu parzialmente costruita sotto la sua direzione. Dopo la s…