This thesis analyzes the narrative structure and tropes of the De liberatione civitatum orientis by Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone. The goal of this project is threefold: first, to provide a closer reading of Caffaro's text than has previously been offered; second, to criti…
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Through the Middle Ages and early modern times, the subject of the Jews' appearance, dress and recognizability was of significant concern to religious and secular authorities across Europe. From England in the West to Budapest in the East, and from the thirteenth to the eighteen…
My dissertation examines how in the fourteenth century, the rival republics of Pisa, Venice, and Genoa each commissioned major civic monuments that featured Old Testament and cartographic references as well as local saints, traditions, and themes. I argue that their complex prog…
“Every Man is Now in the Market” is a study of informal institutional change in medieval Liguria during the second half of the thirteenth century. Informal institutions are social rules that are enforced by commonly held values and norms, rather than by any law. The goal of this…