Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Italy

From Craft to Institution: Accounting in Italy from the Middle ages to the Early Modern Period

2012 ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Professional Field

The article describes the evolution of accounting from the simple registration technique to economic and social institution in medieval Italy. We used methods of institutional analysis and historical research. It is shown that the institutionalization of accounting had been completed by the XIV century, when it became a system of codified technical standards, scholar discipline and a professional field. We examine the interrelations of this process with business environment, political, social, economic and cultural factors of Italy by the XII—XVI centuries. Stages of institutionalization are outlined.

Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osvaldo Cavallar ◽  
Julius Kirshner
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Italy

Patron Saints of Early Medieval Italy, AD c. 350–800: History and Hagiography in Ten Biographies. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Nicholas Everett. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016, x, 276 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 362-363
Author(s):  
Scott G. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Gregory The Great ◽  
Patron Saints

Like a modern-day Gregory the Great, Nicholas Everett has assembled a collection of little-known saints’ lives from early medieval Italy: the Life of Gaudentius of Novara; the Life of Barbatus of Benevento; The Sermon of the Notary Coronatus on the Life of Zeno, Bishop and Confessor; The Book Concerning the Apparition of St. Michael on Mount Gargano; the Life of Senzius of Blera; the Passion of Cetheus of Pescara; the Passion of Vigilius of Trent, Bishop and Martyr; the Passion of Apollinaris of Ravenna; the Passion and Life of Eusebius of Vercelli; and the Life of Sirus of Pavia.

Animals and animal products in medieval Italy: a discussion of archaeological and historical methodology

1989 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 152-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Clark
Keyword(s):  
Animal Products ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Nello Studio ◽  
Historical Methodology

ANIMALI E PRODOTTI ANIMALI NELL'ITALIA MEDIEVALE: UNA DISCUSSIONE DI METODO STORICO E ARCHEOLOGICOQuesto studio discute i diversi tipi di approccio — quello archeologico e quello storico che, in generale, si possono adottare nello studio dei sistemi economici del passato ed in particolare nello studio del ruolo degli animali e dei prodotti animali nell'Italia medievale. Una serie di problemi vengono anzitutto posti come punto di partenza dell'indagine; sono poi discusse le fonti disponibili: archeologiche, storiche, artistiche e letterarie; sono infıne prese in considerazione le risposte possibili allo stato attuale. E' chiaro che tutti e quattro i tipi di fonti sono in grado di apportare preziosi contributi alla ricerca, fornendo in taluni casi dei quadri simili, in altri immagini tra loro contrastanti. E' chiaro al tempo stesso che ciascun tipo di fonte ha i suoi dementi di forza, quelli di debolezza, le sue lacune. Le testimonianze archeologiche rappresentano, ad esempio, un potenziale enorme per la comprensione dei aspetti produttivi del sistema economico, per i quali i dati documentari sono scarsi; le fonti storiche devono essere considerate come il mezzo più importante per la comprensione delle complesse forme di organizzazione del commercio urbano. Viene comunque messo in evidenza come il ruolo di animali e prodotti animali debba essere defınite all'interno di ogni singolo contesto e come tale ricerca non possa che assumere un carattere interdisciplinare.

Notes on Competition and Justum Pretium Theory and Practice in Medieval Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Claudio Corradi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Pricing Theory ◽  
Market Variables ◽  
The One ◽  
Capitalist Spirit

Medieval Italian Comuni are often considered as one of the cradles of the modern capitalist spirit. Comuni introduced economic legislation in an attempt to counteract restrictions to competition on the one hand and to control the price of certain goods and services on the other. Price control of basic commodities was often motivated by reasons of public order – such as preventing commoners’ riots. Despite some loose analogies with the modern European Union competition law approach to pricing – namely in the area of excessive pricing – the Italian medieval Comuni pricing theory and practice substantially differed from the modern European Union one. Medieval theory struggled in reconciling market mechanisms with costs analysis and missed the distinction between efficiency and distribution. Moreover, medieval Comuni market variables were substantially divergent from the modern European ones. Despite Comuni being the wealthiest areas in Europe in those days, their consumers had significantly lower buying power, they were affected by different cognitive biases than modern consumers and they were highly segmented from a gender perspective. Medieval producers, that is artisans, did not enjoy the degree of market power that characterizes modern oligopolists. Artisans produced goods for merchants who were the main promoters of trade and economic development. Merchants often succeeded in squeezing artisans’ profits, granting consumers lower prices for manufactured goods, at times also thanks to free trade policies pursued by Comuni administrations.

Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Morton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Byzantine Church

This book is a historical study of these manuscripts, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of medieval southern Italy persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule. Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over 500 years of continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region’s Greek Christian inhabitants were cut off from their Orthodox compatriots in Byzantium and became subject to the spiritual and legal jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic popes. Nonetheless, they continued to follow the religious laws of the Byzantine church; out of thirty-six surviving manuscripts of Byzantine canon law produced between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, the majority date to the centuries after the Norman conquest. Part I provides an overview of the source material and the history of Italo-Greek Christianity. Part II examines the development of Italo-Greek canon law manuscripts from the last century of Byzantine rule to the late twelfth century, arguing that the Normans’ opposition to papal authority created a laissez faire atmosphere in which Greek Christians could continue to follow Byzantine religious law unchallenged. Finally, Part III analyses the papacy’s successful efforts to assert its jurisdiction over southern Italy in the later Middle Ages. While this brought about the end of Byzantine canon law as an effective legal system in the region, the Italo-Greeks still drew on their legal heritage to explain and justify their distinctive religious rites to their Latin neighbours.

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