Italy - History Lab

27 Europe’s Civil Wars, 1941–1949

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:47:44 +0000

A number of the conflicts that wracked European countries under Axis-power occupation during the Second World War can be understood as civil wars. This analytical prism should be seen as complementing rather than replacing the more conventional pairing of collaboration and resistance. The three European cases from this period that best fit conventional notions of civil war in terms of the intensity and duration of fighting among co-nationals are Greece, Yugoslavia, and Italy. A comparative analysis can yield insights into the complex interplay of historical continuities and ruptures, and of nationalist and internationalist frames of reference, in shaping the agendas and choices of participants in these violent struggles.

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Assault on power in the Revolt of the Ciompi

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:45:16 +0000

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The ciompi

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Friar Dolcino and his heretics

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Giving Memory a Future: The Sinti and Roma in Italy and around the world

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:29 +0000

The main goal of the project is to provide information and resources in order to facilitate better understanding of the Sinti and Roma culture and history, develop new strategies of addressing discrimination against Sinti and Roma, and promote peaceful coexistence in Europe. To support this goal, the project pursues the following objectives: Produce a multimedia resource incorporating audiovisual, documentary, legislative, scholarly, and mass media information related to Sinti and Roma rights and anti-Sinti and Roma discrimination; Inform target groups (political decision makers and educational policy makers) about the historical mechanisms that led to discrimination, exclusion, and persecution of the Roma in the twentieth century through a progressive erosion of their rights; Demonstrate the continuity and the mechanisms driving exclusion/persecution of Sinti and Roma throughout history and contemporary Europe.

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Via Francigena

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:13 +0000

In 990 AD, Sigeric, archbishop of Canterbury, travelled to Rome to meet Pope John XV and receive the investiture pallium. When travelling on the Via Francigena, one walks along the “European cultural corridor”, discovering highest artistic cultures from pre-Romanesque and Romanesque, to Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque. The Via Francigena is indeed the oldest and most important medieval pilgrimage route connecting Northwestern Europe with the Italian peninsula and in particular with Rome. With its different roles as a military road, trade route and a pilgrimage route throughout the Middle Ages – the Via Francigena put different values and traditions in contact and has been an extremely important vehicle for transmitting cultural messages from one part of Europe to another. The route often runs along main streets and is bordered by the most important monuments, beautiful buildings and archaeological sites.

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Francigena route

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:03 +0000

More than 3000 kilometers, from Canterbury to Rome and Santa Maria di Leuca, to walk step by step on mountain paths, mule tracks, rural and secondary roads, cypress-lined dirt roads or among majestic pines. Under your feet are the oldest streets of these beautiful countries. Streets paved with river stones worn by the passage of time, until you reach the “cobblestones” of Rome. The trail will take you through villages where all roads lead to Rome. The official route of the Via Francigena is the safest, and was carefully designed to be traveled by all ages.

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Romea Germanica Route

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:03 +0000

Starting in Northern Germany, and reaching Rome through Austria and Italy, the Via Romea Germanica is retracing the steps of Abbot Albert of Stade as narrated in his diary. He was a pilgrim on his way to Rome in 1236 with a mission to ask the Pope for approval of the new Monastic Rule for his community. In the Annales Stadenses, written in 1256, abbot Albert analysed different routes to Rome, describing places, characteristics and distances. In his writings, we can read a detailed description of the best way (the “Melior Way”) for pilgrims coming from Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the Baltic Countries to get to Rome. Since then, the Via Romea Germanica has been travelled by emperors, kings, soldiers, travellers and merchants. The Via Romea Germanica can be seen as a route of dialogue between Europeans and the Christian faith; while being part of the major pilgrimage axis to Rome and to Jerusalem. The Via Romea Germanica also joins a branch of the Via Francigena on its way to Rome.

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The history of Grand Tour

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:03 +0000

There was a time when people did not travel for tourism, but to develop their intellectual skills, and grow culturally. The Grand Tour was a long journey in continental Europe carried out by the rich young people of the European aristocracy starting from the 17th century and destined to perfect their knowledge with departure and arrival in the same city. This journey could last from a few months to several years. The final destination was commonly Italy, or more rarely Greece.

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Chistopher Columbus

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:40:53 +0000

During the late 15th century and throughout the 16th century, knowledge of terrestrial geography, both physical and human, made great strides. Christopher Columbus, Giovanni Caboto and Amerigo Vespucci explored North and South America and consigned them to history. Meanwhile, Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail across the Indian Ocean to Asia, while Ferdinand Magellan and Francis Drake, who completed the circumnavigation of the globe, confirmed the geographic position of North and South America, which meanwhile became part of maps and world maps, in ever-increasing numbers.

This century of exploration saw the first contacts between different peoples that brought alliances, trade, wars and slavery. These contacts laid the foundation for the modern globalized world.

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