Thomas V Cohen

Biographic Data

ID333174
NAMEThomas V Cohen
GIVEN NAMESThomas V
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN T V
AFFILIATIONSYork University
ORCID0009-0008-2576-3887
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Feeding the Eternal City Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto

    Thomas V CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2026

  • Magdalena, “Deaf and Mute,” Makes Her Roman Will (1590)

    Open AccessThomas V CohenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2024References: 2

    By early modern Roman law, persons born deaf, if they could neither speak nor write, could not make their last will and testament. In the event recounted here, thanks to a coordinated effort by her family, her advocates, papal officialdom, her beneficiaries, and Magdalena herself, the formally impossible proved possible. This article, offering a close reading of the unusual document that lays out the complex tests applied to Magdalena to let her …

  • Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective

    Open AccessThomas V CohenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2021

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  • Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory

    Thomas V CohenBOOKRoman Tales2019Cited by: 1

    Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory. This book draws the reader deep into eight stories: a Christian-Jewish picnic plus an ill-aimed stone fight, an embassy-driven attack on Rome's police, a magic prophetic mirror, an immured mad hermit, a stolen dwarf, and the bizarre misadventures of a stolen roll of velvet, a truly o…

  • R oisin C ossar . Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy

    Open AccessThomas V CohenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    Roisin Cossar’s Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy has a double subject: on the one hand, the households of the lesser clergy, and on the other, the documents that let scholars determine how they worked. Household here refers to that domestic unit, persons allied by various attractant forces—duty, contract, custom, need, affiliation, perhaps affection, sometimes desire—who work together to sustain and conserve the basic social unit that, …

  • The Macrohistory of Microhistory

    Thomas V CohenARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2017Cited by: 1

    In the classic microhistorical mode, this article begins with the tale of the author's quirky, accidental entry into microhistory. It then frames his own practice in the social history of the 1980s, before moving to an apologia for microhistory not as a field but as a practice. The article posits five further traits of microhistory: its insistence on the dense connectedness of things; its professed ignorance or very partial knowledge; its invitat…

  • Rom: Vom Mittelalter zur Renaissance 1378–1484

    Open AccessThomas V CohenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2017

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  • The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento

    Guido Ruggiero, Thomas V CohenARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2016

    Ruggiero, Guido. The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Sex Acts in the Early Modern World), on Érudit

  • Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700)

    Thomas V Cohen, Lesley K TwomeyBOOKSpoken Word and Social Practice2015

  • The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c. 1590-1640

    Theresa Mayer, Thomas F Mayer et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2015

    Mayer, Thomas F. The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c. 1590–1640. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary (I)), on Érudit

  • Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750

    Irene Fosi, Thomas V Cohen et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2012

    Fosi, Irene. Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Things Not Easily Believed: Introducing the Early Modern Relation), on Érudit

  • Things Not Easily Believed: Introducing the Early Modern Relation

    Thomas V Cohen, Germaine WarkentinARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2012

    there took place at Victoria College in the University of Toronto a scholarly workshop dedicated to the subject of the relazione or relation as a literary genre in early modern Europe. Among the several papers presented" W ere we to begin this introductory essay in the manner of an early modern relation, we would start not by stating facts about the things that happened, as above, but by speaking directly to our readers. First there would be the …

  • Postscript: Charismatic things and social transaction in Renaissance Italy

    Open AccessThomas V Cohen, Elizabeth S CohenARTICLEUrban History2010References: 2

    In 1860, Jacob Burckhardt published his view, still influential today, of an artful, urban Italian Renaissance that launched Europe on its passage to modernity. A lively revisionary scholarship has challenged Burckhardt on many points, but his famous formulae still resonate: the state as work of art; the development of the individual; the discovery of the world and of man. Although we now know that Italy did not alone invent the new age, it was f…

  • Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fallof a Master Spy

    Open AccessThomas V CohenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2010

    Jonathan M. Walker. Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xii + 276 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9370–4. - Volume 63 Issue 3

  • Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts , by Charles Donahue, Jr

    Open AccessThomas V CohenARTICLEJournal of History2010

  • Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome: Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534-1549

    Thomas V CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2009

  • Cultural History of Early Modern Streets—An Introduction

    Riitta Laitinen, Thomas V Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2008

    The articles in this collection deal with the early modern street—a public space that was never completely separate from other public spaces, or indeed from private spaces. This introduction presents central themes for the following six articles that explore the history of the street in various European towns. Public and private, order and disorder, and control and hierarchy are discussed, and the inextricable link between the material and the im…

  • The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy

    Open AccessThomas V CohenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2007

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  • Bourdieu in Bed: The Seduction of Innocentia (Rome, 1570)

    Thomas V Cohen, Thomas CohenARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2003

    Early modern tales of seduction and abandonment, and of legal proceedings to redress the moral and social balance, are not that rare. But this case, with its pathos and wry twists, is rich and interesting, both for the abundant detail, and for the picture it offers of female agency; both the girl and her governess are active players in the courtship and the marriage negotiations. The tale also illustrates uses of literacy, central to both the sed…

  • The Contexts of Vieira's Toleration of Jews and New Christians

    Sally Schwartz, S B Schwartz et al.ARTICLELuso-Brazilian Review2003Cited by: 1

    A tolerância do jesuíta António Vieira para com os crisãos novos e até com os judeus, e sua oposição à campanha feita pela Inquisiçâo portuguesa contra eles sâo aspectos notáveis da sua carreira e de seus escritos. Estes msmos aspectos fazemde Vieira uma figura que parece singular no seu século. Mas a realidade era que já existia em Portugal e em Espanha um contexto; desde o períodomdieval uma corrente de tolerância e de relativismo religios até …

  • Reflections on Retelling a Renaissance Murder

    Open AccessThomas V CohenARTICLEHistory and Theory2002Cited by: 1

    This mischievously artful essay plays out on several levels; think of them as storeys of an imaginary castle much like the real, solid, central Italian one it explores and expounds. On its own ground floor, the essay recounts a gruesome murder, a noble husband's midnight revenge upon his wife and upon her bastard lover, his own half-brother, in her castle chamber, in bed. In sex. Of course. The murder itself is pure Renaissance, quintessential Bo…

  • Open and Shut: The Social Meanings of the Cinquecento Roman House

    Elizabeth S Cohen, Thomas V CohenARTICLEStudies in the Decorative Arts2001Cited by: 8References: 1

  • Women in the Streets

    Thomas V CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1998

  • Renaissance Cardinals and Their Worldly Problems

    Thomas V CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1998

  • Three Forms of Jeopardy: Honor, Pain, and Truth-Telling in a Sixteenth- Century Italian Courtroom

    Thomas V CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1998

    Three members of a small band of Spanish thieves appear before the court of the governor of Rome. One, in hopes of clemency, betrays his companions and lays out the story of his long criminal career, both with them and with others. He is thus a useful informant, not only to the judge but also to the historian. This essay recounts the experience of the men in the gang and then explores the political economy of their profession. It then turns to th…