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Available documentation of medieval music is almost exclusively limited to bound codices. Against this backdrop, this article explores how musical information was also communicated via more easily transportable, inexpensive material forms during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with an emphasis on leaflets that circulated independently of codices. I shall focus on three song genres that can be found in the context of the crusading enterprise: the Old French political song; the Latin liturgical prosa; and the Latin secular lament. Transmission across long distances was especially relevant in this crusading context – between the east and west of the Mediterranean as well as within the so-called crusader states. By integrating textual, musical, musico-palaeographical, and codicological methods of analysis, this article assesses the social and political significance of these songs and uncovers the motivations to disseminate them using such patterns of communication among crusader communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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, however, in light of the political-cultural ties with the emperor. Thus, it would broaden the field of research from mere jurisdiction - even this principle remains unaltered still for centuries - to political culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La Boétie's De la servitude volontaire has traditionally been read as an archetypal piece of French humanist writing. In contrast, this article argues that medieval, scholastic ideas underpin De la servitude volontaire. There are two components to this argument: the first is the influence of La Boétie's training in civil law at the Université d'Orléans on his political ideas, where there is clear evidence that aspects of medieval jurisprudence underpinned an argument that is otherwise presented in the stylish prose of French humanism. The second is La Boétie's indebtedness to aspects of the Aristotelian, scholastic tradition, in which his use of anti-democratic commentaries on Aristotle's Politics forms the basis of a critique of republican readings of De la servitude volontaire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The convent in John Dryden's The Assignation: Or, Love in a Nunnery (1673) is a space where numerous strains of patriarchal power intersect and are negotiated. The Assignation draws on a long tradition of theatrical plots involving convents to affirm in this particular play the value of a stable monarchy and the order it engenders. Dryden constructs a mixture of real and imagined situations for the women in the convent and provides a predictably secular resolution in the last act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that the question of "Florentine freedom" was at the heart of the elaboration and diffusion of neo-republican thought in the English-speaking world in the 20th century. Topics include examines an understanding of freedom based on the idea of participation has thus imposed itself as the base of various theoretical articulations to finally give rise to the creation of a new paradigm in the history of political thought republicanism.

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The famous 14th-century jurist Bartolus de Saxoferrato addressed the issues of tyranny at various points in his prolific scientific career, both in his commentary to the Corpus iuris civilis and in the public law treatises De regimine civitatis and De Guelfis et Gebellinis, where the theme of resistance against a tyrant was developed, whereas the legal theory of tyranny was comprehensively presented by him in the treatise De tyranno. The subject of the article is the analysis of the concepts of tyrant and tyrannical rule in Bartolus’ works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article looks at revolt in European cities during the late medieval period. Particular focus is given to the relationship between revolt and political organization. According to the author, revolts were an important part of urban political interaction and conflict negotiation during this period. Details on the Ciompi revolt in Florence, Italy in 1378 and on a series of revolts in Tournai, Belgium during the 1420s are presented. Topics discussed include polycentricity and political power.

The article discusses the marriages between the inhabitants of four neighboring municipalities from the Italian province of March of Ancona, including Camerino, Matelica, San Severino, and Fabriano. According to the article, the marriages were a condition of the peace treaty signed by the municipalities in the presence of two papal legates at the communal palace in Macerata (Italy) on February 18, 1306. The author analyzes and describes the treaty, considers the social and symbolic aspects of these marriages, discusses marriage rites and gender relations, and shows how the men organized the transfer of spouses, dowry, and citizenship.

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The article presents information on the concept of nationhood as perceived by the Union of England and Scotland in 1707. This concept in early-modern Scotland was examined from different perspectives including historical, cultural and literary, and was subjected to continued analysis by historians. According to political lexicon, nationhood has been described with three different meanings, including the fact of being a nation, national independence or autonomy, and national, ethnic or cultural identity.

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A historical study of Bektachism-Alevism, which is viewed as a syncretism of faiths and cultures, is presented. These faith beliefs were common in many areas of the Ottoman Empire during the 13th century. According to the article, some main tenants of these diverse faiths include a number of proscribed behaviors. It is a believed that one should keep one's hand from evil, not speak evil, and control one's sexual behavior. A discussion of the similarities of these beliefs and those of Manichaeism, an Iranian Gnostic religion, is provided. Similarities among these belief systems include a religious community of elected ones, similar religious taboos, and beliefs concerning original sin.

Discusses the role played by thinker, scientist, and historian Carlo Cattaneo in the Risorgimento or the making of Italy in 19th century. Cattaneo's essay on the city as an ideal principle in Italian histories; Commitment in a universalist, Kantian spirit to a gradual ever-widening union of peoples; Cattaneo's view of federalism as predicated upon amity.