This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable new perspectives on the human transition from the Roman to the medieval world in Italy. ...Integrating evidence from botanical and literary sources, individual charters and case studies of specific communities, the book traces fluctuations in the size and location of Italian chestnut woods to expose how early medieval societies changed their land use between the fourth and eleventh centuries, and in the process changed themselves. As the chestnut tree gained popularity in late antiquity and became a valuable commodity by the end of the first millennium, this study brings to life the economic and cultural transition from a Roman Italy of cities, agricultural surpluses and markets to a medieval Italy of villages and subsistence farming.
Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the ...theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants. At the same time the traditional view that the last century of the Republic witnessed a decline in the free Italian population is shown to be untenable. The main foci of its six chapters are: military participation rates; demographic recovery after the Second Punic War; the spread of slavery and the background to the Gracchan land reforms; the fast expansion of Italian towns after the Social War; emigration from Italy; and the fate of the Italian population during the first 150 years of the Principate.
Schooling in modernity Bonifazio, Paola
Schooling in modernity,
2014, 20140507, 2014, 2014-05-07, 2014-05-27
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Paola Bonifazio investigates the ways in which films sponsored by Italian and American government agencies promoted a particular vision of modernization and industry and functioned as tools to govern ...the Italian people.
Italian neorealism Leavitt IV, Charles L
Italian neorealism,
2020, 2020, 2020-05-26
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"Neorealism emerged as a cultural exchange and a field of discourse that served to shift the confines of creativity and revise the terms of artistic expression not only in Italy but worldwide. If ...neorealism was thus a global phenomenon, it is because of its revolutionary portrayal of a transformative moment in the local, regional, and national histories of Italy. At once guiding and guided by that transformative moment, neorealist texts took up, reflected, and performed the contentious conditions of their creation, not just at the level of narrative content but also in their form, language, and structure. Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History demonstrates how they did so through a series of representative case studies. Recounting the history of a generation of artists, this study offers fundamental insights into one of the most innovative and influential cultural moments of the twentieth century."--
Jurists and jurisprudence in medieval Italy Cavallar, Osvaldo; Kirshner, Julius
Jurists and jurisprudence in medieval Italy,
2020, 20200925, 2020, 2020-09-25, 2020-10-01, Volume:
4, 4.
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"Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy is an original collection of texts exemplifying medieval Italian jurisprudence, known as the ius commune. Translated for the first time into English, many ...of the texts exist only in early printed editions and manuscripts. Featuring commentaries by leading medieval civil law jurists, notably Azo Portius, Accursius, Albertus Gandinus, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis, this book covers a wide range of topics, including how to teach and study law, the production of legal texts, the ethical norms guiding practitioners, civil and criminal procedures, and family matters. The translations, together with context-setting introductions, highlight fundamental legal concepts and practices and the milieu in which jurists operated. They offer entry points for exploring perennial subjects, such as the professionalization of lawyers, the tangled relationship between law and morality, the role of gender in the socio-legal order, and the extent to which the ius commune can be considered an autonomous system of law."--
Hannibal invaded Italy with the hope of raising widespread rebellions among Rome's subordinate allies. Yet even after crushing the Roman army at Cannae, he was only partially successful. Why did some ...communities decide to side with Carthage and others to side with Rome? This is the fundamental question posed in this book, and consideration is given to the particular political, diplomatic, military and economic factors that influenced individual communities' decisions. Understanding their motivations reveals much, not just about the war itself, but also about Rome's relations with Italy during the prior two centuries of aggressive expansion. The book sheds new light on Roman imperialism in Italy, the nature of Roman hegemony, and the transformation of Roman Italy in the period leading up to the Social War. It is informed throughout by contemporary political science theory and archaeological evidence, and will be required reading for all historians of the Roman Republic.
A New Statesman Book of the Year Winner of the
Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne
Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies "Extraordinary…I could
not put it down." -Margaret ...MacMillan "Reveals how ideology
corrupts the truth, how untrammeled ambition destroys the soul, and
how the vanity of white male supremacy distorts emotion, making
even love a matter of state." -Sonia Purnell, author of A Woman
of No Importance When Attilio Teruzzi, a decorated military
officer and early convert to the Fascist cause, married a rising
American opera star, his good fortune seemed settled. The wedding
was blessed by Mussolini himself. Yet only three years later,
Teruzzi, now commander of the Black Shirts, renounced his wife.
Lilliana was Jewish, and fascist Italy would soon introduce its
first race laws. The Perfect Fascist pivots from the
intimate story of a tempestuous courtship and inconvenient marriage
to the operatic spectacle of Mussolini's rise and fall. It invites
us to see in the vain, unscrupulous, fanatically loyal Attilio
Teruzzi an exemplar of fascism's New Man. Victoria De Grazia's
landmark history shows how the personal was always political in the
fascist quest for manhood and power. In his self-serving pieties
and intimate betrayals, his violence and opportunism, Teruzzi is a
forefather of the illiberal politicians of today. "The brilliance
of de Grazia's book lies in the way that she has made a page-turner
of Teruzzi's chaotic life, while providing a scholarly and
engrossing portrait of the two decades of Fascist rule." -Caroline
Moorhead, Wall Street Journal "Original and important…A
probing analysis of the fascist 'strong man.' De Grazia's attention
to Teruzzi's private life, his behavior as suitor and husband,
deepens and enriches our understanding of the nature of leadership
in Mussolini's regime and of masculinity, virility, and honor in
Italian fascist culture." -Robert O. Paxton, author of The
Anatomy of Fascism "This is a perfect book!…Its two entwined
narratives-one political and public, the other personal and
private-help us understand why the personal is political for those
who insist on reshaping people and society." -Azar Nafisi, author
of Reading Lolita in Tehran
At the end of the Second World War in 1945, which brought on a new Italian State, Italy's Foreign policy was first and foremost that of re-joining the new order of western alliances and playing a ...role in the re-building of a new Europe different from that which had brought war and conflict. The book "Italy and the European Union: A Rollercoaster Journey" seeks to bring to English language readers the manner in which Italy directed, approached and implemented its vision toward the new Europe. New visions and proposals emerged through champions such as Altiero Spinelli, Alcide De Gasperi, Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet. It was meant to be a new European journey, which would seek to put war and conflict behind it. Being an original member of the Coal and Steel Authority established in the early 1950s, Italy sought to become a player in the direction of European integration. However, it did so with significant distractions and hurdlesâat times as a bystander and at other times as a prominent player. The presence of Franco-German leadership was in the first instance a vision but for Italy at times contentious. Equally, Italy was afflicted by its internal distractions and priorities, which were at times a threat to its stability and to its political institutions. At times Italy made significant contributions to the direction of the European journey much of which under the constant eye of ideological tensions in country. It was the country with the largest Communist Party in Western Europe within a bi-polar Cold War arrangement, which remained a constant source of suspicion and concern. From being a Europhile member state in the 1990s to one where Euroscepticism appears regularly, Italy remains ambivalent about its relationship with the European Union depending on the political party in government. This book seeks to provide the story on how and why these changing perceptions of the European Union occurred and what possible avenues awaits this country on its rollercoaster journey with the European Union.
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