Angevin Kings
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Applicare le metodologie dell'analisi delle reti sociali all'ambito della ricerca storica può fornire una misura quantitativa quanto qualitativa a supporto degli storici. Nella fattispecie si vuole presentare uno studio in cui si è... more
A surgeon from Esztergom. Pertoldus and king Charles I of Hungary. There were many doctors and surgeons in the Kingdom of Hungary in early Angevin-era, but we know little their personal and medicallives. In the first part of this essay I... more
This article focuses on the university of Naples as an extension of royal administration, with special attention given to the university during the reign of Robert d'Anjou (1309-43).
Enrico di Castiglia è un caso emblematico di cavaliere e principe alla ricerca di una signoria. Dopo aver guidato senza successo una ribellione nobiliare contro il celebre fratello Alfonso X el Sabio (1252-1284) re di Castiglia, prese la... more
Considers the various works of Robert Grosseteste (bishop of Lincoln 1235-53) concerning kingship, the responsibilities of rulers and the nature of power, in order to assess what influence the bishop’s arguments might have exercised on... more
Eleanor of Aquitaine has undoubtedly suffered more than most historical figures from excessive mythologising, and as a result has “inspired some of the very worst historical writing devoted to the European Middle Ages”. In the 1940s and... more
Book review of Thomas Asbridge's Richard I: The Crusader King, and W.B Bartlett's Richard the Lionheart: The Crusader King of England
A royal dynasty cultivates its traditions above all through the commemoration of its ancestors. Tombs play a central role in this. This study examines the tombs of the royal house of Anjou erected in the Kingdom of Sicily (Naples) by the... more
A detailed study of female royal succession in Twelfth Century Europe & the Crusader States of the Holy Land with particular reference to the Empress Matilda
A detailed study of 20th and 21st Century historians approaches to Eleanor of Aquitaine
This chapter investigates the form and consequences of the English invasion of Ireland, c.1166-c.1254, situated within the wider framework of European political configurations and frontier societies. A rapid narrative of the cut and... more
Thesis about the relationship between Monarchy and Order of St. John in medieval Southern Italy (XII-XV century)
"The knight's iconography into Neapolitan illumination during the Angevin age" was the main subject of my postgraduate degree dissertation in 2010. The degree thesis was focused on the evolution of the knight's iconography during the... more
Collected papers on the different topics considering medieval history of nowadays Vojvodina
Il saggio tratta la storia della medievale chiesa di Santa Maria del Casale in Brindisi
Considering the extensive loss of medieval decoration in the Neapolitan church of S. Chiara, the surviving 14th century high altar deserves special attention. One third of its structure and most of its sculptural embellishment are lost,... more
in Seán Duffy and Peter Crooks (eds.), The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland: The Making of a Myth (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016), 69-92.
in “Arte Medievale”, IV serie, X, 2020 (ISSN 0393-7267), pp. 353-362. Edificio tra i più noti del periodo tardo bizantino, la chiesa della Parigoritissa di Arta rappresenta un caso esemplare della committenza dei Comnenoduca nella... more
English Historical Review, 129/540 (2014), 1051-78.
Mémoire de Master 1 - Master Monde Méditerranéen Médiéval, sous la direction d'Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi et Dominique Valérian.
A dissertation for the study of a Masters in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. It details the ups and downs the Cistercian Order had with King Richard and John, within the confines of the Angevin Empire. Sorry the Latin... more
lem-umr8584.cnrs.fr/?Roberto-D-Angio Le LEM et l’Université Orientale de Naples organisent, à partir de fin septembre, une exposition virtuelle sur Robert d’Anjou et son époque. L’exposition virtuelle "Les savoirs à Naples à l’époque... more
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) ranks as a favourite of modern biographers, and in the twentieth-century writings on this twelfth-century personality attained the proportions of a 'romanticizing "Eleanor industry".' 1 In approaching... more
The so-called Fonthill Vase (sometimes also called the Gaignières-Fonthill Vase), preserved today at the National Museum of Ireland, is generally regarded as the oldest well-documented Chinese porcelain object surviving in Europe.... more
Eds. Bryan C. Keene and Karl Whittington. Trecento Forum, 247-261. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020.