LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ITALY
SPRING 2006
Thursdays, 5 pm
Institute of Historical Research (Senate House, University of London),
Third-floor Seminar Room
19 January
John Henderson
Plague, putrefaction and the poor in early modern Florence
2 February
Maria Fusaro
Foreign merchants and their activities in late medieval and early modern
Italy: a critical re-evaluation
16 February
Gervase Rosser
Back to the margins: liminality in the cults of miraculous images in Italy
in the long sixteenth century
2 March
Antonio Cartolano
How to read Renaissance letters (with reference to Boiardo)
16 March
Judith Bryce
‘Ama i tuoi figliuoli, ma sempre piú Iddio’: maternity and spirituality in
Sant’Antonino’s letters to Dada degli Adimari (1450s)
Convenors: Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe
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