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Table of Contents: “…Polykoiranie III (John of Salisbury, Aquinas, Dante, Marsilius of Padua) -- 5. Polykoiranie IV (Bodin, La Boétie) -- Part II (PROTO)DEMOCRACY -- 6. …”
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Table of Contents: “…A Chaucerian invitation -- Alexandria: city of reason : the great confluence -- Rome: crossroads of the world : how the Romans become the Italians -- Bingen & Chartres, gardens enclosed : the cult of the virgin and its consequences -- Aquitaine & Assisi, courts of love : the pursuit of love and its consequences -- Entrances to other worlds : the Mediterranean, the Orient, and the Atlantic -- Paris, university of heavenly things : the exaltation of reason and its consequences -- Oxford, university of earthly things : the alchemists quest and its consequences -- Padua, chapel of flesh : the artist's experiment and its consequences -- Florence, dome of light : the poet's dream and its consequences -- Ravenna, city of death : the politician's emptiness and its consequences -- Love in the ruins : a Dantesque reflection.…”
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Table of Contents: “…--[v.11] Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera.--[v.12] Poems in prose.--[v.13] De profundis, from the original, unexpurgated German ed., tr. by Henry Zick.…”

Table of Contents: “…Women and religion in late medieval Italy: history and historiography -- A community of female penitents in thirteenth-century Padua -- Clare, Agnes, and their earliest followers: from the Poor Ladies of San Damiano to the Poor Clares -- Anchoresses and penitents in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Umbria -- Mendicant friars and female pinzochere in Tuscany: from social marginality to models of sanctity -- The Apostolic canonization proceedings of Clare of Montefalco, 1318-1319 -- Female mystics, visions, and iconography -- Imitable sanctity: the legend of Maria of Venice -- St. …”

Table of Contents: “…McPherson -- Paternalism, progress, paranoia: patrol reports and colonial history in South Bougainville / Jill Nash -- The queen of Sudest: white women and colonial cultures in British New Guinea and Papua / Maria Lepowsky -- Juxtaposed narratives: a New Guinea big man encounters the colonial process / Richard Scaglion -- Three-day visitors: The Samo response to colonialism in Western Province, Padua New Guinea / R. Daniel Shaw -- Afterword: an anthropology of colonialism out of the "last unknown" / Eugene Ogan…”

Table of Contents: “…The several Middle Ages of Jules Michelet -- Merchant's time and church's time in the Middle Ages -- Labor time in the "crisis" of the fourteenth century : from medieval time to modern time -- A note on tripartite society, monarchical ideology, and economic renewal in ninth- to twelfth-century Christendom -- Licit and illicit trades in the medieval west -- Labor, techniques, and craftsmen in the value systems of the early Middle Ages (fifth to tenth centuries ) -- Peasants and the rural world in the literature of the early Middle Ages (fifth and and sixth centuries) -- Academic expenses at Padua in the fiftheenth century -- Trades and professions as represented in the medieval confessors' manuals --How did the medieval university conceive of itself -- The universities and the public authorities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Clerical culture and folklore traditions in Merovingian civilization -- Ecclesiastical culture and folklore in the Middle Ages : Saint Marcellus of Paris and the dragon -- The medieval west and the Indian Ocean : an oneiric horizon -- Dreams in the culture and collective psychology of the medieval west -- Melusina : mother and pioneer -- The historian and the ordinary man -- The symbolic ritual of vassalage.…”

Table of Contents: “…John Duns Scotus and natural law / Martyna Koszkalo --8. Marsilius of Padua's political theory of natural law / Alessandro Mulieri.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Church and state, 1300-77 : theory and fact / Beryl Smalley. -- Marsilius of Padua and Italian political thought of his time / Nicolai Rubinstein. -- Florence and the papacy, 1300-1375 / Peter Partner. -- The Crusade in the fourteenth century / Anthony Luttrell. -- The king and princes in fourteenth-century France / John Le Patourel. -- England, Scotland and the Hundred Years War in the fourteenth century / James Campbell. -- Aspects of government in the late medieval empire / H.S. …”

Table of Contents: “…Kirsch -- Donatello and the high altar in the Santo, Padua / Sarah Blake McHam -- Medici patronage and the festival of 1589 / Arthur R. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the role of Merz telescopes in Italian astronomy - by Ileana Chinnici -- The Merz Company: a Global Player of the 19th Century - by Jurgen Kost & Gudrun Wolfschmidt -- 1850-1900: The Era of Very Large Refractors - by Paolo Brenni -- The maker and the scientist: the relationship between Georg Merz and the Jesuit astronomer Angelo Secchi - by Ileana Chinnici -- Visual double stars measurements with Merz refractors: some statistics - by Giuseppe Massone -- Padua Astronomical Observatory and Merz Workshop: a special connection - by Valeria Zanini -- Merz instruments at Naples Observatory -by Mauro Gargano -- Merz Telescopes at Brera - by Mario Carpino -- Merz telescopes at Rome Astronomical Observatories - by Aldo Altamore & Francesco Poppi -- Merz Telescopes at Catania Royal Astrophysical Observatory - by Andrea Orlando -- Appendix – A list of surviving Merz telescopes outside Italy - by P. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cornelison -- Consorts, mistresses and exemplary women: the female medallic portrait in fifteenth-century Italy / Luke Syson -- Dimensional tension in the work of Antonio Pollaiuolo / Alison Wright -- The debasement of images: the sculptor Andrea Riccio and the applied arts in Padua in the sixteenth century / Anthony Radcliffe -- The decoration of Italian Renaissance hand-bells / Peta Motture -- Discerning the sculptural content of Bronzino's early male portraits: a preliminary investigation / Stuart Currie -- The fate of two German monuments: histories and interpretations / Norbert Jopek -- Painting versus sculpture: the programme of the Lüneburg town hall / Antje Schmitt -- Tintoretto's drawings after sculpture and his workshop practice / Lucy Whitaker -- Daniele da Volterra, Ruberto Strozzi and the equestrian monument to Henry II of France / Antonia Boström -- A 'dialogue' between sculptor and architect: the statue of S. …”

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of Walter Ullmann -- Quentin Skinner's state: historical methodology and the formation of a European tradition -- Pathologies of continuity: the neo-figgisites -- A middle path: Alexander Passerin D'entrèves -- Toleration and community: functionalist foundations of liberty -- The royal will and the baronial bridle: the Bractonian contribution -- Political representation: modern theory and medieval practices -- For love and money: theorizing revolt in fourteenth-century Europe -- Brunetto Latini's commercial republicanism -- Marsiglio of Padua: between empire and republic -- Translatio Imperii: medieval and modern -- Christianity and republicanism: another look -- The origins of "policy" in twelfth-century England -- Economic liberty and the politics of wealth -- Money and community: Nicole Oresme -- Christine de Pizan's Expanding body politic -- The persistence of economic nationalism: John Fortescue -- Virtue, foresight, and grace: Machiavelli's medieval moments -- Arguing sovereignty in the seventeenth century: Bracton's readers -- Hegel on the medieval foundations of the modern state.…”
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