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    Dec 5, 2025

    Quaderni di Storia Religiosa Medievale (QSRM) seminar, University of Bologna

    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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    Sep 17, 2025

    Third Annual Meeting, Castle Santa Severa

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    Sep 10, 2025

    7th biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation

    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

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    Nov 5, 2024

    Edinburgh University

    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 […]

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    Sep 24, 2024

    2nd Annual Meeting, Castle of Santa Severa

    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) […]

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    Oct 3, 2024

    First Annual Meeting, Santa Servolo

    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 […]

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Art & Inequality
in the Shadow of the Black Death

Collecting and cataloguing art commissions made by members of different social strata – from paupers to the elite – in Europe from 1225 to 1525, to explore two interrelated fields, economic inequality and cultural history.

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