Valentina Costantini, presentation of our research project on testaments’ management and inventories from the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova (14th c.) Beyond the Will: The Execution of Pious Dispositions in the Late Middle Ages: Managing and Governing pro anima Investments through Economy and Pastoral Care, in preparation of a special issue for the journal…
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Valentina Costantini & Davide Cristoferi, panel: Pigs in the late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Europe: breeding, production and consumption (11th-16th centuries)7th biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO)Coimbra, Portugal10 September 2025

5 November 2024 Edinburgh University, The Old CollegeCentre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Lecture series5:15pm, Sydney Smith Lecture Room, Old Medical School Doorway 1 “Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death: Comparative Dimensions” – Dr. Samuel K. Cohn The talk presented the central hypotheses of the project to an audience of circa…

Introduction of board, guests, and members of the team Session 1: 9:30 to 10:30 Sam; Team; Board I. Sketch of the challenges and progress over the past year UKRI = outputs II. A principal theme of this year’s workshop: comparative history: (1) towns and villages within Florentine Tuscany; 2) Lucca; 3) Siena; 4) Milan: 5)…

Presentations:Samuel Cohn, “A Year Devoted to Collecting: From the ERC application (2021) to the project’s first birthday”Tamsin Prideaux (RA), “What is art; what is a commission in ourproject?”Anna Reutinger (Artist) “Imaginary reproduction of the lost art found in Renaissance testamentary commissions”Adam Linson (Computing & Communications), “Uncovering and exploringcommission patterns over time and space using interactive…