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In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326-1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe's most important polities. For nearly forty years, she held her throne and the avid attention of her contemporaries. Their varied responses to her reign created a reputation that made Johanna the most notorious woman in Europe during her lifetime. In From She-Wolf to Martyr, Elizabeth Casteen examines Johanna's evolving, problematic reputation and uses it as a lens through which to analyze often-contradictory late-medieval conceptions of rulership, authority, and femininity. When Johanna inherited the Neapolitan throne from her grandfather, many questioned both her right to and her suitability for her throne. After the murder of her first husband, Johanna quickly became infamous as a she-wolf-a violent, predatory, sexually licentious woman. Yet, she also eventually gained fame as a wise, pious, and able queen. Contemporaries-including Francesco Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Birgitta of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena-were fascinated by Johanna. Drawing on a wide range of textual and visual sources, Casteen reconstructs the fourteenth-century conversation about Johanna and tracks the role she played in her time's cultural imaginary. She argues that despite Johanna's modern reputation for indolence and incompetence, she crafted a new model of female sovereignty that many of her contemporaries accepted and even lauded.

Queens --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Monarchy --- Women --- Courts and courtiers --- Empresses --- Kings and rulers --- Joanna --- Naples (Kingdom) --- History --- Johanna --- Regno di Napoli --- Napoli (Kingdom) --- Sicily (Italy) --- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

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The first full-length study of mainland southern Italy's domestic market in the late Middle Ages, this book discusses the interaction between population, the market, and the region's institutional framework, in the context of the impact of the late medieval 'crisis' on the European economy. Based on new or little-used documentary evidence, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach and combines economic history with elements of economic theory to reassess common knowledge on demographic and urbanization trends, the organization of the domestic market, the role of the state, and on actual patterns of agricultural production, industrial activity and commercial itineraries. The result is a fresh look at the late medieval economy of the kingdom of Naples, which, it seems now, is worth studying for its own merit.

Naples (Kingdom) --- Naples (Royaume) --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions sociales --- Social conditions --- Conditions économiques --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Regno di Napoli --- Napoli (Kingdom) --- Sicily (Italy) --- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies --- Naples (Kingdom) - Economic conditions --- Naples (Kingdom) - Social conditions

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"In Love, Self-Deceit, and Money, Koen Stapelbroek reconstructs the early Neapolitan Enlightenment debate on the morality of market societies, a debate that hinged on the preservation of Naples' independent statehood in a global arena of commercial and military competition. Galiani rejected the opinions of many of his contemporaries regarding the moral and economic dangers threatening Naples, and, in his Della moneta (1751), he justified the systems set in place by the Neapolitan government. With reference to early, previously unstudied lectures on self-deceptive 'Platonic love, ' Stapelbroek examines Galiani's role in the wider debate, arguing that his early work in moral philosophy and history suggests a great deal about his political-economic stance, including his assertion that money is the ultimate ordering principle in the universe."--Jacket.

Commerce --- Enlightenment --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Galiani, Ferdinando, --- Galeota, Onofrio, --- Galiani, --- Galiani, Ferdinand, --- Political and social views. --- Naples (Kingdom) --- Regno di Napoli --- Napoli (Kingdom) --- Sicily (Italy) --- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies --- History --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants

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Vico and Naples is an intellectual portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) that reveals the politics and motivations of one of Europe's first scientists of society. According to the commonplaces of the literature on the Neapolitan, Vico was a solitary figure who, at a remove from the political life of his larger community, steeped himself in the recondite debates of classical scholarship to produce his magnum opus, the New Science. Barbara Ann Naddeo shows, however, that at the outset of his career Vico was deeply engaged in the often-tumultuous life of his great city and that his experiences of civic crises shaped his inquiry into the origins and development of human society.With its attention to Vico's historical, rhetorical, and jurisprudential texts, this book recovers a Vico who was keenly attuned to the social changes transforming the political culture of his native city. He understood the crisis of the city's corporate social order and described the new social groupings that would shape its future. In Naddeo's pages, Vico comes alive as a prescient judge of his city and the political conundrum of Europe's burgeoning metropolises. He was dedicated to the acknowledgment and juridical remedy of Naples' vexing social divisions and ills. Naddeo also presents biographical vignettes illuminating Vico's role as a Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Naples and his bid for the prestigious Morning Chair of Civil Law, which foundered on the directives of the Habsburgs and the politics of his native city. Rich with period detail, this book is a compelling and vivid reconstruction of Vico's life and times and of the origins of his powerful notion of the social.

Cities and towns --- Social sciences --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Philosophy --- History. --- Vico, Giambattista, --- Rome --- Naples (Kingdom) --- Regno di Napoli --- Napoli (Kingdom) --- Sicily (Italy) --- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies --- Historiography. --- Vico, G. --- Vico, G. B. --- Vico, Giovanni Battista, --- Vico, Juan Bautista, --- Pikʻo, --- Vico, Giovan Battista, --- ויקו, ג׳מבטיסטה, --- Weike, --- 维柯,

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Jesuits --- イエズス会 --- カトリック イエズス会 --- Compagnie de Jésus --- Compañia de Jesus --- Gesellschaft Jesu --- Jesuitas --- Jesuiten --- Jesuiti --- Jezuïten --- Jésuites --- Paters Jezuïten --- Societeit van Jezus --- Society of Jesus --- Naples (Kingdom) --- Regno di Napoli --- Napoli (Kingdom) --- Sicily (Italy) --- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies --- Church history. --- Missions --- Missionaries --- 271.5 <45 NAPOLI> --- #GBIB: jesuitica --- 271.5 <45 NAPOLI> Jezuïeten--Italië--NAPOLI --- Jezuïeten--Italië--Napoli --- Religious adherents --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- History --- Jezuïeten--Italië--NAPOLI --- Jesuits. --- Naples (Italy) --- Napulj (Italy) --- Neapel (Italy) --- Neapolis (Italy) --- Nápoly (Italy) --- Napoli (Italy) --- Nápoles (Italy) --- Comune di Napoli --- Church history --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs --- Naples (Kingdom) - Church history.