Maya Maskarinec
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Maskarinec |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Maskarinec |
| SIGNATURE | MASKARINEC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A People’s Church
Law and spiritual sanctions
This article examines the citation of legal texts in late tenth- and eleventh-century pro anima donation charters in favour of ecclesiastical institutions in central Italy. It argues that, in general, these texts were cited by notaries to insist on a general principle, derived from Lombard law, of the irrevocability of all donations and testamentary dispositions in favour of ecclesiastical institutions. It then discusses the spiritual sanctions t…
Monastic archives and the law
This article investigates two controversies that reveal the deeply intertwined nature of legal strategies and archival practices at the monasteries of Farfa and Monte Amiata around the turn of the millennium. It argues that the protagonists of these cases, abbots knowledgeable in law and the history of their monasteries, pursued markedly historical legal strategies: legal strategies that looked to, manipulated, and, above all, contextualized, arc…
The Lands of Saint Ambrose
This is a microstudy with macroscopic implications. Ross Balzaretti’s focus is a corpus of several hundred eighth- to eleventh-century property deeds (‘charters’) that were preserved at the monastery of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan. Through fine-grained analysis of the content and form of these single-sheet parchments, read alongside other available evidence, Balzaretti’s masterpiece intervenes in a number of thorny debates about the transformation of …
A Question of Tradition
This article investigates the ideological implications of Pope Gregory the Great's beard for Catholic reformers of the sixteenth century. It argues that the portrayal of Gregory as clean-shaven, with a "moderate" beard, or with a long bushy beard (all representations that are to be found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Roman art and scholarship) take us to the heart of inter- locking Catholic Reform debates on the "Romanness" of the Roman c…
Nuns as ‘Sponsae Christi’
This article examines the unusual history and legal status of the Tor de’ Specchi community, founded by Francesca Romana (d. 1440) in Rome, in the face of shifting expectations for religious women in Counter-Reformation Catholicism. It is argued that Francesca Romana had sought to carve out a religious path for women distinct from that of nuns as brides of Christ (‘sponsae Christi’). The article demonstrates the community's difficulties in mainta…
Legal Expertise at a Late Tenth-Century Monastery in Central Italy, or Disputing Property Donations and the History of Law in Benedict of Monte Soratte’s Chronicle
Legal Expertise at a Late-Tenth-Century Monastery in Central Italy, or Disputing Property Donations and the History of Law in Benedict of Monte Soratte’s Chronicle
The C arolingian afterlife of the D amasan inscriptions
This paper investigates the multiple impulses that contributed to the early medieval interest in Pope D amasus's inscriptions. In part, D amasus's verses were read as guides to Rome's martyrial topography; in part, they served as models of a classicizing C hristian style. Above all, the appeal of these verses derived from their association with D amasus himself, who came to be seen as a secure mediator of the early C hristian past. Concurrently, …
Easter Soldier-Saints in Early Medieval Rome
I n the late eighth century Pope Hadrian (772-795) had a new fresco added to the atrium of Sta.Maria Antiqua (fig.1). 1 Here Pope Hadrian (on the far left) is presented entreating the Virgin and Child; four accompanying saints champion his case.Along with Rome's renowned Pope Sylvester
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The C arolingian afterlife of the D amasan inscriptions
This paper investigates the multiple impulses that contributed to the early medieval interest in Pope D amasus's inscriptions. In part, D amasus's verses were read as guides to Rome's martyrial topography; in part, they served as models of a classicizing C hristian style. Above all, the appeal of these verses derived from their association with D amasus himself, who came to be seen as a secure mediator of the early C hristian past. Concurrently, …
Easter Soldier-Saints in Early Medieval Rome
I n the late eighth century Pope Hadrian (772-795) had a new fresco added to the atrium of Sta.Maria Antiqua (fig.1). 1 Here Pope Hadrian (on the far left) is presented entreating the Virgin and Child; four accompanying saints champion his case.Along with Rome's renowned Pope Sylvester
Legal Expertise at a Late Tenth-Century Monastery in Central Italy, or Disputing Property Donations and the History of Law in Benedict of Monte Soratte’s Chronicle
Legal Expertise at a Late-Tenth-Century Monastery in Central Italy, or Disputing Property Donations and the History of Law in Benedict of Monte Soratte’s Chronicle
A Question of Tradition
This article investigates the ideological implications of Pope Gregory the Great's beard for Catholic reformers of the sixteenth century. It argues that the portrayal of Gregory as clean-shaven, with a "moderate" beard, or with a long bushy beard (all representations that are to be found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Roman art and scholarship) take us to the heart of inter- locking Catholic Reform debates on the "Romanness" of the Roman c…
Nuns as ‘Sponsae Christi’
This article examines the unusual history and legal status of the Tor de’ Specchi community, founded by Francesca Romana (d. 1440) in Rome, in the face of shifting expectations for religious women in Counter-Reformation Catholicism. It is argued that Francesca Romana had sought to carve out a religious path for women distinct from that of nuns as brides of Christ (‘sponsae Christi’). The article demonstrates the community's difficulties in mainta…
Monastic archives and the law
This article investigates two controversies that reveal the deeply intertwined nature of legal strategies and archival practices at the monasteries of Farfa and Monte Amiata around the turn of the millennium. It argues that the protagonists of these cases, abbots knowledgeable in law and the history of their monasteries, pursued markedly historical legal strategies: legal strategies that looked to, manipulated, and, above all, contextualized, arc…
The Lands of Saint Ambrose
This is a microstudy with macroscopic implications. Ross Balzaretti’s focus is a corpus of several hundred eighth- to eleventh-century property deeds (‘charters’) that were preserved at the monastery of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan. Through fine-grained analysis of the content and form of these single-sheet parchments, read alongside other available evidence, Balzaretti’s masterpiece intervenes in a number of thorny debates about the transformation of …
Law and spiritual sanctions
This article examines the citation of legal texts in late tenth- and eleventh-century pro anima donation charters in favour of ecclesiastical institutions in central Italy. It argues that, in general, these texts were cited by notaries to insist on a general principle, derived from Lombard law, of the irrevocability of all donations and testamentary dispositions in favour of ecclesiastical institutions. It then discusses the spiritual sanctions t…
A People’s Church
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