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Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women : essays in honour of Christine Meek
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Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women : essays in honour of Christine Meek

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Part 1: Medieval Italy
Becoming invisible: the role of economic history in medieval studies and in the historiography on medieval Italy / George Dameron
Christine Meek and the history of Lucca / Duane Osheim
Quasi-città irredenta: Empoli (c.1100-1325) / William R. Day, Jr
The origins of the Signoria in Cremona: the family background of Boso of Dovara / Edward Coleman
Setting the prisoners free: Innocent III's papal leadership in action / Brenda Bolton
The sweet beloved and his legacy: a lawsuit for love and money from Lucca (1237) / Andreas Meyer
Debito pubblico e fiere de Champagne: un inedito documento lucchese de fine Duecento / Ignazio Del Punta
Flying across the Alps: 'Italy' in the works of Petrarch / Jennifer Petrie
A dialogue of power: the politics of burial and commemoration in fourteenth-century Italy / William Caferro
Community and country life in late medieval Tuscany / Duane Osheim
The countryside and rural life in the fifteenth-century Lucchesia / M.E. Bratchel
Part 2: Medieval and early modern women
Conversio and conversatio in the Life of Hercula of Epfach / I.S. Robinson
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the women of the Second Crusade / Conor Kostick
Consolation and desperation: a study of the letters of Peter of Blois in the name of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine / Stephen Hanaphy
Bardic poems of consolation to bereaved Irish ladies / Katharine Simms
Lover of widows: St Jerome and female piety / Catherine Lawless
Women's experiences of war in later medieval Ireland / Gillian Kenny
Bonae litterae and female erudition in early sixteenth-century Nuremberg / Helga Robinson-Hammerstein
Important ladies and important families: Lucrezia Borgia and Caterina Cibo Varano / M. Grazia Nico Ottaviani.

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