Reti Medievali Rivista

Linguaggi dell’imperialità nell’Italia del tardo medioevo

Pietro Silanos — 2023-11-30

Un volume curato da Anne Huijbers (Emperors and Imperial Discourse in Italy, c. 1300-1500. New Perspectives) ha proposto importanti riflessioni sugli ideali, sull'ideologia e sulla propaganda imperiali nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. Da diversi punti di vista, cinque studiosi ne discutono nei saggi qui raccolti, anche in chiave di comparazione fra l’Italia e altre regioni dell’impero.

L’empire à la fin du Moyen Âge : idées pour une déconstruction

Éloïse Adde — 2023-11-30

Les études rassemblées dans le volume Emperors and Imperial discourse in Italy, c. 1300-1500, édité par Anne Huijbers, suggèrent une articulation de la perception et de la présence réelle de l’empire médiéval à la fin du Moyen Âge dans différentes régions d’Europe, au sud et au nord des Alpes.

Uno spettro si aggira per l’Italia. Limiti e prospettive dello studio della “presenza imperiale” nell’Italia tardo medievale

Étienne Doublier — 2023-11-30

Il saggio discute sotto vari aspetti il volume curato da Anne Huijbers, Emperors and imperial discourse in Italy, c. 1300-1500, ponendo l’accento fra l’altro sulla novità del taglio epistemologico del libro rispetto alla storiografia italiana, spesso refrattaria alla storia delle idee; sono posti al centro della discussione i temi del discorso politico e della spazialità.

Shades of Empire in Late Medieval and Renaissance Reichsitalien. Questioning New Perspectives

Giovanni Francesco Contel — 2023-11-30

The node centered by the volume deals with the political-cultural ties between the late medieval german emperors and the plural world of the Italian humanists. Particularly, conveying a double and corresponding line of exchanges between North and South of the Alps, the point was re-focused over emperor’s presence and their retinues in the peninsula as the fulcrum of this long-term exchange. Thus, new perspectives open up regarding spaces and men involved in this political experience. Regional spaces more in contact than others with the imperial presence and the collection of sources, on the basis of macro-areas in the wake of Peter Moraw’s scheme, are very useful tools to adapt our knowledge of the multiple links between emperors and Reichsitalien, not only in the 14th century and in the previous two centuries (12th-13th) but also for the crucial subsequent period (15th-16th) – considering the entire autumn of the Medieval Empire and, at the same time, the Renaissance – still relatively little focused on by the new research fields. In order to include these centuries as well, Moraw’s thesis should be proficiently reconsidered,

Reply

Anne Huijbers — 2023-11-30

This essay responds briefly to contributions by Éloïse Adde-Michel Margue, Étienne Doublier and Giovanni Francesco Contel discussing the volume Emperors and imperial discourse in Italy.

Frenar el contagio por tierra y por mar en Cataluña y Mallorca en el siglo XV: en los albores de los cordones sanitarios

Albert Reixach Sala — 2023-11-30

El artículo analiza las medidas adoptadas por los gobiernos urbanos de los dominios occidentales de la Corona de Aragón frente a los brotes epidémicos que se sucedieron después de la Peste Negra (1347-51) y hasta inicios del siglo XVI. Específicamente, se fija en las estrategias introducidas en villas y ciudades de Cataluña y Mallorca para controlar la movilidad de personas y bienes en tiempos de contagio. Estas medidas se iniciaron en las décadas de 1420 y 1430, pero no se consolidaron hasta la segunda mitad de la centuria. Con una combinación de fuentes inéditas y bibliografía local, se ofrece una reconstrucción de la secuencia de avances en su desarrollo, poniéndoles en relación con otros territorios europeos. Finalmente, se apuntan algunas hipótesis a explorar para interpretar la cronología y factores que incidieron en este proceso.

Protecting a Dalmatian Town: Security Measures in Venetian Split (1480-1550)

Lena Sadovski — 2023-11-30

Following Niall Ferguson’s assertion that “a catastrophe lays bare the societies and states that it strikes”, this article studies the society of the Dalmatian town of Split through the lens of the various threats it was exposed to around the year 1500, as well as the precautionary measures taken in their anticipation. Based on broad archival evidence, four areas are studied: the military threat posed chiefly by the Ottomans, emigration and depopulation, epidemics, and civil discontent. The study of these measures, ranging from appeasing Ottoman officials to burning infected people’s property, offers new insights into the structures of a society between Venetian rule and Ottoman menace in the Renaissance period.