Nicholas A Eckstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 457052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas A Eckstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckstein |
| SIGNATURE | ECKSTEIN N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Plague Time
Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth- and seventeenth-century policies were the first steps towards an authoritarian paradigm that would only emerge in full in the eighteenth century. The present article argues that Foucault’s model is too abstracted to function as a tool for the…
Prepositional City
The famous Florentine tax census, the Catasto, contains an element that has escaped organized scholarly attention. This is the confini: bare-bones lists of neighbors by which householders identified the location of private property to government officials. This article exploits the confini to expose the microscopic connective fibers of spatial relationships that citizens reproduced every day at the level of individual streets, piazze, and buildin…
Florence on foot
As plague approached in August 1630, Florence's health officials commissioned the aristocratic lay brothers of the confraternity of the Archangel Michael (‘San Michele’) to search the city's streets and alleys for signs of disease. While the extraordinary record of this ‘Visitation’ is known to health historians, the present article instead relates it to a long history of urban surveys and censuses in which Florentines fashioned themselves in int…
Douglas Biow, In Your Face
Cultures of Charity
Nicholas Terpstra. Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. x + 380 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–06709–7. - Volume 66 Issue 4
Three Recent Studies of Italian Society and Religion
Sociability and its Discontents
From Sin to Insanity. Suicide in Early Modern Europe ‐ by Jeffrey R. Watt
Love and Death in Renaissance Rome by Thomas V. Cohen
Addressing Wealth in Renaissance Florence
This article uses a source well known to historians (the Florentine tax census of 1427—the catasto) to carry out minute analysis of wealth, residence and occupation patterns in one working-class neighborhood, the gonfalone of the Green Dragon. The article demonstrates the gradations of wealth and occupational status that could occur within a relatively small urban area; thereafter it scrutinizes details beyond the scope of most similar studies fo…
The Widows' Might
The famous early-Renaissance fresco cycle in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence has in the past been interpreted in relation to a fundamentally male paradigm. Using original archival research, this article contends that the frescoes, and the chapel itself, in fact have a feminine side. Several scenes of Saint Peter's miracles are informed by a late-mediaeval culture that idealised Christian charity in female terms, and reflect a culture of religiou…
Words and Deeds, Stasis and Change
Members of Renaissance Italian confraternities spoke an official language that emphasized stability and permanence rather than change, a fact which can obscure the precise relationship between the culture of organized lay devotion and events in society as a whole. Examining four miraculous cults that achieved prominence in Florence around 1500, this essay argues that, far from their being static or conservative organizations, confraternities exem…
The District of the Green Dragon
Prepositional City
The famous Florentine tax census, the Catasto, contains an element that has escaped organized scholarly attention. This is the confini: bare-bones lists of neighbors by which householders identified the location of private property to government officials. This article exploits the confini to expose the microscopic connective fibers of spatial relationships that citizens reproduced every day at the level of individual streets, piazze, and buildin…
Words and Deeds, Stasis and Change
Members of Renaissance Italian confraternities spoke an official language that emphasized stability and permanence rather than change, a fact which can obscure the precise relationship between the culture of organized lay devotion and events in society as a whole. Examining four miraculous cults that achieved prominence in Florence around 1500, this essay argues that, far from their being static or conservative organizations, confraternities exem…
The District of the Green Dragon
Words and Deeds, Stasis and Change
Members of Renaissance Italian confraternities spoke an official language that emphasized stability and permanence rather than change, a fact which can obscure the precise relationship between the culture of organized lay devotion and events in society as a whole. Examining four miraculous cults that achieved prominence in Florence around 1500, this essay argues that, far from their being static or conservative organizations, confraternities exem…
The Widows' Might
The famous early-Renaissance fresco cycle in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence has in the past been interpreted in relation to a fundamentally male paradigm. Using original archival research, this article contends that the frescoes, and the chapel itself, in fact have a feminine side. Several scenes of Saint Peter's miracles are informed by a late-mediaeval culture that idealised Christian charity in female terms, and reflect a culture of religiou…
Love and Death in Renaissance Rome by Thomas V. Cohen
Addressing Wealth in Renaissance Florence
This article uses a source well known to historians (the Florentine tax census of 1427—the catasto) to carry out minute analysis of wealth, residence and occupation patterns in one working-class neighborhood, the gonfalone of the Green Dragon. The article demonstrates the gradations of wealth and occupational status that could occur within a relatively small urban area; thereafter it scrutinizes details beyond the scope of most similar studies fo…
From Sin to Insanity. Suicide in Early Modern Europe ‐ by Jeffrey R. Watt
Sociability and its Discontents
Three Recent Studies of Italian Society and Religion
Douglas Biow, In Your Face
Cultures of Charity
Nicholas Terpstra. Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. x + 380 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–06709–7. - Volume 66 Issue 4
Florence on foot
As plague approached in August 1630, Florence's health officials commissioned the aristocratic lay brothers of the confraternity of the Archangel Michael (‘San Michele’) to search the city's streets and alleys for signs of disease. While the extraordinary record of this ‘Visitation’ is known to health historians, the present article instead relates it to a long history of urban surveys and censuses in which Florentines fashioned themselves in int…
Prepositional City
The famous Florentine tax census, the Catasto, contains an element that has escaped organized scholarly attention. This is the confini: bare-bones lists of neighbors by which householders identified the location of private property to government officials. This article exploits the confini to expose the microscopic connective fibers of spatial relationships that citizens reproduced every day at the level of individual streets, piazze, and buildin…
Plague Time
Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth- and seventeenth-century policies were the first steps towards an authoritarian paradigm that would only emerge in full in the eighteenth century. The present article argues that Foucault’s model is too abstracted to function as a tool for the…
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