The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom
Tracy Dennison The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom Russian rural history has long been based on a ‘Peasant Myth’, originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse behaviour often attributed to Russian peasants. On the...
DODICESIMA GIORNATA DI STUDI CIRILLOMETODIANI
DODICESIMA GIORNATA DI STUDI CIRILLOMETODIANI dedicata ai 1150 anni dalla conversione al Cristianesimo del principe bulgaro Boris-Michail e al ruolo del Primo Impero Bulgaro per il salvataggio e lo sviluppo dell’opera cirillometodiana Venerdì 16 maggio 2014 Sala conferenze “Ignazio Ambrogio” Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19 – Roma (Metro B, fermata Marconi) 15.00 – 15.30 InaugurazIone della gIornata. SalutI 15.30-17.00 Prima sessione...
Presentazione libro
Venerdì 11 aprile 2014, ore 17.00 presentazione del volume Gli slavi Storia, culture e lingue dalle origini ai nostri giorni di Marcello Garzaniti Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea – Palazzo Mattei di Giove Via Michelangelo Caetani 32 – Roma Saluti Simonetta Buttò Intervengono Damir Grubiša, Marco Natalizi, Adriano Roccucci Coordina Marcello Verga Per informazioni: Biblioteca di storia moderna e...
CfP: A Usable Past
A Usable Past: New Trends in Applied and Interdisciplinary History Deadline: 1 February 2014. On March 28-29, 2014, the Faculty of History of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg will host an international conference A Usable Past: New Trends in Applied and Interdisciplinary History. Submissions are welcome. Today history is becoming more involved in interactions with other disciplines. This...
Converting Bohemia
Howard Louthan Converting Bohemia Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation Prior to the Thirty Years War, almost all of Bohemia’s population lay outside the Catholic fold, yet by the beginning of the eighteenth century the kingdom was clearly under Rome’s influence. Few regions in Europe’s history have ever experienced such a complete religious transformation; because of this, Bohemia offers a unique window...
CfP: Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii
Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii: From the Roman Empire to Contemporary Imperialism Deadline: January 31, 2014 Academia Belgica (Rome), with the support of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome, and the Princess Marie-José Foundation invite submissions to the international conference Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii: From the Roman Empire to Contemporary Imperialism to be held in Brussels on September 11–13, 2014....
