Books written by William Caferro
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Teaching History
Whatever images we cast and however we go about our craft, the growing literature on pedagogy suggests that teaching history, like other subjects, has a strong disciplinary aspect to it and that the instruction students receive in high ...
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Contesting the Renaissance
Q James J. Sheehan, “The Problem of Sovereignty in European History,” American Historical Review 1 1 1, (Feb. 2006): 1-15. Q A. F. Pollard, Factors in Modern History (London, 1907), pp. 52-78. See also Gerhardt Ritter, Die Neugestaltung ...
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John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 46 ( 1984 ) : 357-392 . - The Spiritual Power : Republican ... Valente , A. “ Margherita di Durazzo vicaria di Carlo III e tutrice di re Ladislao . ” Archivio Storico Italiano 19 ( 1918 ) .
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The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family
Philip Jacks and William Caferro draw upon these papers to tell the story of the Spinelli family's ascent to economic and social prominence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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The Unbounded Community: Papers in Christian Ecumenism in Honor of Jaroslav Pelikan
... in Revelationes Gertrudianae ac Mechtildianae ( Paris , 1875 ) . There was a fifteenth - century translation into Middle English , The Booke of Gostly Grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn , ed . Theresa A. Halligan , The Virtuous Pagan 83.
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Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena
A major reason was their ability to consolidate outstanding loans and fund their public debt ( monte ) . Becker saw the establishment of the Florentine monte as “ the single most important determinant of public policy in Florence in the ...
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John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
It decided on a more circumspect course, suggested in the Signoria by Ranieri di Simone Peruzzi, a man with experience in mercenary-related matters and with John Hawkwood in particular. Peruzzi suggested that the city hold Hawkwood ...
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The Routledge History of the Renaissance
The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 Edited by Deborah Simonton The Routledge History of Slavery Edited ... Wallach The Routledge History of Rural America Edited by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg The Routledge History of Disease ...
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The Routledge History of the Renaissance
Capturing dynamic new approaches to the study of this fascinating period and illustrated throughout with images, figures and tables, this comprehensive volume is a valuable resource for all students and scholars of the Renaissance.
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Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context
A compelling and revisionist account of Florence's economic, literary and social history in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death.
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Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context
Florence and the Black Death in Context William Caferro. Florence turned to loans (preste) to make up for the ... Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), pp. 175–190. Matteo Villani estimated ...