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1) Communities and crisis: Bologna during the Black Death

Author

Wray, Shona Kelly

Publication Date

2009

Physical Desc

xii, 300 p. : ill., maps.

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Based on testaments and notarial contracts, this examination of the Black Death of 1348 argues for social resilience in Bologna. The notarial record demonstrates that notaries, officials, medical practitioners, and clergy served the populace, while families remained intact and the populace resisted flight.

2) Cultures of charity: women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy

Author

Terpstra, Nicholas

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Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women's shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans. Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses,...

3) R.ed engender.ed: a conical chronicle

Author

Lorenz, Angela

Publication Date

[2016]

Physical Desc

192 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm + 1 sculpture (cloth, wire ; 28 cm)

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"The character r.ed monde spontaneously appears in watercolor at a kitchen table, dancing, playing and primping among the produce of Bologna, Italy in 1985. But r.ed's happy, ideal existence is soon threatened when the artist makes a 3-D version of her creation, leading her to close r.ed in a studio drawer out of fear. An identity crisis ensues when r.ed notices a lack of resemblance with any others in the artist's circle of family and friends. Bored...

4) The mansion of thought: making knowledge visual in three dimensions, east and west

Author

Lorenz, Angela

Publication Date

[2012]

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm

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"Recorded history bursts with manmade structures that make knowledge visual, to aid memorization, to record information, and to enhance ritual practice ... The quest for immortality, universal knowledge and paradise pervades material culture ... Over 60 paintings in watercolor give examples from cultures and religions around the world, especially those which used text to explain their ideas. The images interact in a folding picture-book that may be...