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Julius Kirshner, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Chicago Publications 1969-2020
Books
Pursuing Honor While Avoiding Sin: The Monte delle Doti of Florence. Milan: Giuffrè, 1978.
With Osvaldo Cavallar and Susanne Degenring. A Grammar of Signs: Bartolo da Sassoferrato’s
“Tract on Insignia and Coats of Arms.” Berkeley, CA: Robbins Collection, University of
California at Berkeley, 1994.
Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Toronto Studies in
Medieval Law 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
With Osvaldo Cavallar, Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts,
University of Toronto Press, forthcoming, 2020.
Books Edited
Raymond de Roover’s Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early
Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
With Suzanne Fonay Wemple. Women of the Medieval World: Essays in Honor of John H.
Mundy. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1985.
General Series Editor with John W. Boyer. University of Chicago Readings in Western
Civilization. 9 Vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
With Karl F. Morrison. University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. Vol. 4: Medieval Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
With Eric Cochrane. University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. Vol. 5: The Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Eric W. Cochrane’s Italy 1530-1630. Longman History of Italy. London: Longman, 1988; Italian version, L’Italia del Cinquecento. Rome-Bari: Laterza, 1989.
The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600. Studies in European History from the Journal of
Modern History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
With Mario Ascheri and Ingrid Baumgärtner. Legal Consulting in the Civil Law Tradition. Studies in Comparative Legal History. Berkeley, CA: Robbins Collection, 1999.
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With Laurent Mayali. Privileges and Rights of Citizenship: Law and the Juridical Construction
of Civil Society. Berkeley, CA: Robbins Collection, 2002.
With Diogo Ramada Curto, Eric R. Dursteler, and Francesca Trivellato. From Florence to the
Mediterranean and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Anthony Mohlo. Florence: Leo S.
Olschki, 2009.
With Lawrin David Armstrong. The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy:
Essays in Honour of Lauro Martines. Toronto Studies in Medieval Law 1. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Chapters in Books
“Paolo di Castro on Cives ex Privilegio: A Controversy over the Legal Qualifications for Public Office in Early Fifteenth-Century Florence.” In Renaissance Studies in Honor of Hans
Baron, edited by Anthony Molho and John A. Tedeschi, 227–64. Florence: G.C. Sansoni,
1971.
“Raymond de Roover on Scholastic Economic Thought.” In Business, Banking, and Economic
Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, by Raymond de Roover, edited by
Julius Kirshner, 15–36. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
“Conscience and Public Finance: A Questio Disputata of John of Legnano on the Public Debt of Genoa.” In Philosophy and Humanism: Renaissance Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar
Kristeller, edited by Edward P. Mahoney, 434–53. Leiden: Brill, 1976.
“An Opinion of Raphael de Pornasio, O.P. on the Market in Genoese ‘lire de paghe’.” In Xenia
medii aevi historiam illustrantia oblata Thomae Kaeppeli O.P., edited by Raymond
Creytens and Pius Künzle, 507–17. Storia e letteratura 142. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1978.
“A ‘Consilium’ of Angelo da Chivasso on the Monte delle doti of Florence.” In Proceedings of
the Fifth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Salamanca, 21-25 September 1976, edited by Stephan Kuttner and Kenneth Pennington, 435–41. Città del Vaticano:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1980.
“Reading Bernardino’s Sermon on the Public Debt.” In Atti del Simposio internazionale
Cateriniano-Bernardiniano, Siena, 17-20 Aprile 1980, edited by Domenico Maffei and
Paolo Nardi, 547–622. Siena: Accademia Senese degli Intronati, 1982.
“A Question of Trust: Suretyship in Trecento Florence.” In Renaissance Studies in Honour of
Craig Hugh Smyth, edited by Andrew Morrogh and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi, 1:129–45.
Villa i Tatti 7. Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1985.
“Wives’ Claims against Insolvent Husbands in Late Medieval Italy.” In Women of the Medieval
World: Essays in Honor of John H. Mundy, edited by Julius Kirshner and Suzanne Fonay
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“Materials for a Gilded Cage: Non-Dotal Assets in Florence, 1300-1500.” In The Family in Italy
from Antiquity to the Present, edited by David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Saller, 184–207.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
With Jacob Klerman. “The Seven Percent Fund of Renaissance Florence.” In Banchi pubblici,
banchi privati e monti di pietà nell’Europa preindustriale: amministrazione, tecniche operative e ruoli economici: Atti del convegno, Genova, 1-6 ottobre 1990, 1: 271–98.
Genoa: Società ligure di storia patria, 1991.
“Encumbering Private Claims to Public Debt in Renaissance Florence.” In The Growth of the
Bank as Institution and the Development of Money-Business Law, edited by Vito
Piergiovanni, 19–75. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1993.
“Mulier alibi nupta.” In Consilia im späten Mittelalter: Zum historischen Aussagewert einer
Quellengattung, edited by Ingrid Baumgärtner, 147–75. Studi 13. Sigmaringen:
Thorbecke, 1995.
“Citizen Cain of Florence.” In La Toscane et les Toscans autour de la Renaissance: cadres de
vie, société, croyances: mélanges offerts à Charles-M. de la Roncière, 175–92.
Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Université de Provence, 1999.
“Donne maritate altrove. Genere e cittadinanza in Italia.” In Tempi e spazi di vita femminile tra
medioevo ed età moderna, edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi, Anne Jacobson Schutte, and
Thomas Kuehn, 377–429. Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Quaderni 51. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1999.
“Consilia as Authority in Late Medieval Italy: The Case of Florence.” In Legal Consulting in
the Civil Law Tradition, edited by Mario Ascheri, Ingrid Baumgärtner, and Julius
Kirshner, 107–42. Studies in Comparative Legal History. Berkeley, CA: Robbins Collection, 1999.
With Osvaldo Cavallar. “‘Licentia navigandi...prosperis ventibus aflantibus’: L’esenzione dei ‘doctores’ e delle loro mogli da norme suntuarie.” In A Ennio Cortese, edited by Domenico Maffei and Italo Birocchi, 1:204–27. Rome: Il Cigno, 2001.
“Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Italy.” In Time, Space, and Women’s
Lives in Early Modern Europe, edited by Anne Jacobson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, and
Silvana Seidel Menchi, 117–49. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 57. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2001.
“Custom, Customary Law & Ius Commune in Francesco Guicciardini.” In Bologna nell’età di
Carlo V e Guicciardini, edited by Emilio Pasquini and Paolo Prodi, 151-79. Bologna: Il
Mulino, 2002.
“Li emergenti bisogni matrimoniali in Renaissance Florence.” In Society and Individual in
Renaissance Florence, edited by William J. Connell, 79–109. University of California
Press, 2002. Earlier version in Visibilità delle donne tra Medioevo ed Età moderna: Carte
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Filosofia [Università degli Studi di Perugia] 2. Studi Storico-Antropologici, vol.
XXXIV-XXXV, n.s. vol.XX-XXI, 1996/97-1997-98, 57-83.
“Genere e cittadinanza nelle città-stato del Medioevo e del Rinascimento.” In Innesti: Donne e
genere nella storia sociale, edited by Giulia Calvi, 21–38. Rome: Viella, 2004.
“Privileged Risk: The Investments of Luchino Visconti in the Public Debt (Monte Comune) of Florence.” In Politiche del credito: Investimento, consumo, solidarietà: Atti del
congresso internazionale, Cassa di Risparmio di Asti, Asti, 20-22 marzo 2003, edited by
Barbara Molina and Gemma Boschiero, 32–67. Collana del Centro Studi sui Lombardi 5. Asti: Arti grafiche TSG, 2004.
With Osvaldo Cavallar. “Making and Breaking Betrothal Contracts (‘Sponsalia’) in Late Trecento Florence.” In Panta rei: Studi dedicati a Manlio Bellomo, edited by Orazio Condorelli, 1:395–452. Rome: Il Cigno, 2004.
“Family and Marriage: A Socio-Legal Perspective.” In Italy in the Age of the Renaissance,
1300-1550, edited by John M. Najemy, 82–102. The Short Oxford History of Italy. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Baldo degli Ubaldi’s Contribution to the Rule of Law in Florence.” In VI centenario della
morte di Baldo degli Ubaldi, 1400-2000, edited by Carla Frova, M. Grazia Nico
Ottaviani and Stefania Zucchini, 313–64. Perugia: Università degli studi di Perugia, 2005.
“Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Un regard de Chicago.” In La famille, les femmes et le quotidien
(XIVe-XVIIIe siècle): textes offerts à Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, edited by Isabelle
Chabot, Jérôme Hayez, and Didier Lett, 79–88. Homme et société 32. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006.
With Anthony Molho and Alan S. Morrison. “Epidemics in Renaissance Florence.” In Firenze
nel Quattrocento, by Anthony. Molho, 105–26. Storia e letteratura 246. Rome: Edizioni
di storia e letteratura, 2006.
“Dowry, Domicile, and Citizenship in Late Medieval Florence.” In Florence and Beyond:
Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy,
edited by Daniel Ethan Bornstein and David Spencer Peterson 1951-, 257–70. Essays and Studies 15. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008.
“A Consilium of Torello di Niccolò Torelli of Prato on dos aestimata.” In Iuris historia: Liber
amicorum Gero Dolezalek, edited by Vincenzo Colli and Emanuele. Conte, 355–68.
Studies in Comparative Legal History. Berkeley, CA.: Robbins Collection Publications, 2008.
With Osvaldo Cavallar. “Lo sguardo medico-legale di Zacchia sugli ermafroditi.” In Paolo
Zacchia alle origini della medicina legale, 1584-1659, edited by Alessandro Pastore and
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With Osvaldo Cavallar. “Bartolus of Sassoferrato on the Making of Citizens (Fourteenth Century), translated from Latin.” In Medieval Italy. Texts in Translation, edited by Katherine Ludwig Jansen, 201–2. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
“The Morning After: Collecting Monte Dowries in Renaissance Florence.” In From Florence to
the Mediterranean and beyond: Essays in Honour of Anthony Molho, edited by Diogo
Ramada Curto, Eric R. Dursteler, Julius Kirshner, and Francesca Trivellato, 1:29–62. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2009.
“Un ricordo,” in Roberto Abbondanza, edited by Attilio Bartoli Langeli, Laura Marconi, Paola Monacchia, Daniela Mori, and Ferdinando Treggiari, 58-60. Perugia: Deputazione di storia patria per l’Umbria, 2010.
“A Critical Appreciation of Lauro Martines’s Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence.” In The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of
Lauro Martines, edited by Lawrin David Armstrong and Julius Kirshner, 7–39. Toronto
Studies in Medieval Law 1. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
“Pisa’s ‘Long-Arm’ Gabella Dotis (1420-1525): Issues, Cases, Legal Opinions.” In Europa e
Italia. Studi in onore di Giorgio Chittolini, edited by Gian Maria Varanini, Isabella
Lazzarini, and Paola Guglielmotti, 223–48. Reti Medievali E-Book. Quaderni 15. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011.
“Authority, Reason and Conscience in Gregory of Rimini’s Questio prestitorum communis
Venetiarum.” In Reichtum im späten Mittelalter: Politische Theorie, ethische Norm, soziale Akzeptanz, edited by Petra Schulte and Peter Hesse, 115–44. Vierteljahrschrift für
Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte 232. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. “A Consilium of Torello di Niccolò Torelli of Prato on dos aestimata.” In Family Law and
Society in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era, edited by Gigliola di
Renzo Villata, volume 5:93–108. Studies in the History of Law and Justice ; Switzerland: Springer, 2016.
“Nascoste in bella vista: Donne cittadine nell’Italia tardo-medievale.” In Cittadinanze medievali:
Dinamiche di appartenenza a un corpo comunitario, edited by Sara Menzinger, 195–228.
Rome: Viella, 2017.
“Baldo degli Ubaldi.” In Christian Jurists in Italian History, edited by Orazio Condorelli and Rafael Domingo, 00-00. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2020.
Journal Articles
“A Document on the Meeting of the Chapter General in Florence (1365).” Archivum
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“A Quaestio de usuris Falsely Attributed to Bartolus of Sassoferrato.” Renaissance Quarterly 22, no. 3 (1969): 256–61.
“Papa Eugenio IV e Il Monte Comune: Documenti su investimento e speculazione nel debito pubblico di Firenze.” Archivio storico italiano 127, no. 3 (1969): 339–82.
“The Moral Theology of Public Finance: A Study and Edition of Nicholas de Anglia’s Quaestio
disputata on the Public Debt of Venice.” Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 40 (1970):
47–72.
“Messer Francesco di Bici degli Albergotti d’Arezzo, Citizen of Florence (1350-1376).” Bulletin
of Medieval Canon Law 2 (1972): 84–90.
“A Note on the Authorship of Domenico Pantaleoni’s Tract on the Monte Comune of Florence.”
Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 43 (1973): 73–81.
“Civitas Sibi Faciat Civem: Bartolus of Sassoferrato’s Doctrine on the Making of a Citizen.”
Speculum 48, no. 4 (1973): 694–713.
“Ars Imitatur Naturam: A Consilium of Baldus on Naturalization in Florence.” Viator 5 (1974): 289–332.
“Les travaux de Raymond de Roover sur la pensée économique des scolastiques.” Annales.
Histoire, Sciences Sociales 30, no. 2/3 (1975): 318–38.
“Some Problems in the Interpretation of Legal Texts re the Italian City-States.” Archiv für
Begriffsgeschichte 19 (1975): 16–27. Also in Social Science Information 15, 4/5 (1976):
625-35.
“A Consilium of Rosello dei Roselli on the Meaning of ‘Florentinus’, ‘de Florentia’ and ‘de Populo’.” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 6 (1976): 87–90.
With Alan S. Morrison and Anthony Molho. “Life Cycle Events in 15th Century Florence: Records of the ‘Monte delle Doti’.” American Journal of Epidemiology 106, no. 6 (December 1, 1977): 487–92.
“The Moral Problem of Discounting Genoese Paghe, 1450-1550.” Archivum Fratrum
Praedicatorum 47 (1977): 109–67.
With Anthony Molho. “Niccolò Machiavelli’s Marriage.” Rinascimento 18 (1978): 293–95. With Anthony Molho. “The Dowry Fund and the Marriage Market in Early Quattrocento
Florence.” Journal of Modern History 50, no. 3 (1978): 404–38.
“Between Nature and Culture: An Opinion of Baldus of Perugia on Venetian Citizenship as Second Nature.” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 9 (1979): 179–208.
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With Jacques Anthony Pluss. “Two Fourteenth-Century Opinions on Dowries, Paraphernalia and Non-Dotal Goods.” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 9 (1979): 65–78.
With Anthony Molho. “Il Monte delle Doti a Firenze dalla sua fondazione nel 1425 alla metà del sedicesimo secolo. Abbozzo di una ricerca.” Ricerche storiche 10 (1980): 21–48.
"Storm over the Monte Comune: Genesis of the Moral Controversy over the Public Debt of Florence," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 53, 1982, pp. 219-276.
With Kimberly A. Lo Prete. “Peter John Olivi’s Treatises on Contracts of Sale, Usury and Restitution: Minorite Economics or Minor Works?” Quaderni Fiorentini 13 (1984): 233– 86; Italian version, “I trattati di Pietro Giovanni Olivi sui contratti di vendita, di usura e di restituzione: Economia dei minori francescani o opere minori?” In Una economia politica
nel Medioevo, edited by Ovidio Capitani, 143–91. Bologna: Pàtron, 1987.
“‘Ubi Est Ille?’ Franco Sacchetti on the Monte Comune of Florence.” Speculum 59, no. 3 (1984): 556–84.
With Thomas M. Izbicki. “Consilia of Baldus of Perugia in the Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago.” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 15 (1985): 95–116.
With Alan S. Morrison and Anthony Molho. “Epidemics in Renaissance Florence.” American
Journal of Public Health 75, no. 5 (May 1985): 528–35.
“Maritus Lucretur Dotem Uxoris Sue Premortue in Late Medieval Florence.” Zeitschrift der
Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Kanonistische Abteilung 77 (1991): 111–55.
“Baldus de Ubaldis on Disinheritance: Contexts, Controversies, Consilia.” Ius Commune:
Zeitschrift für europäische Rechtsgeschichte 27 (2000): 119–214.
“Angelo degli Ubaldi and Bartolomeo da Saliceto on Privileged Risk: Investments of Luchino Novello Visconti in the Public Debt (‘Monte Comune’) of Florence.” Rivista
internazionale di diritto comune 14 (2003): 83–117.
“Bartolo of Sassoferrato’s De tyranno and Sallustio Buonguglielmi’s Consilium on Niccolò Fortebracci’s Tyranny in Città di Castello.” Mediaeval Studies 68 (2006): 303–31. “‘Made Exiles for the Love of Knowledge’: Students in Late Medieval Italy.” Mediaeval Studies
70 ( 2008): 163–202.
With Osvaldo Cavallar, “Da pudenda a prudentia: Il consilium di Baldo degli Ubaldi sul caso di Giovanni Malaspina, Diritto e processo 6 (2010): 97-112.
With Osvaldo Cavallar. “Jews as Citizens in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy: The Case of Isacco da Pisa.” Jewish History 25, no. 3/4 (2011): 269–318.
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“Was Bartolo da Sassoferrato a Source for Christine de Pizan?” Mediaeval Studies 74 (2012): 263–82.
Forewords and Introductions
“Preface.” In Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern
Europe, by Raymond de Roover, edited by Julius Kirshner, VII. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1974.
“Foreword.” In An Alternative to Private Property: Collective Property in the Juridical
Consciousness of the Nineteenth Century, by Paolo. Grossi, vii–xii. translated by Lydia
G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
With John W. Boyer. “Foreword.” In University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
“Introduction.” In Italy 1530-1630, by Eric W. Cochrane, edited by Julius. Kirshner. Longman History of Italy. London: Longman, 1988.
“Foreword.” In Francesco Guicciardini, Giurista: I ricordi degli onorari, by Osvaldo Cavallar, IX–XVI. Per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno 36. Milan: Giuffrè, 1991.
“Introduction: The State Is ‘Back In.’” In The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600, edited by Julius Kirshner, 1–10. Studies in European History from the Journal of Modern History 67. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
With Laurent Mayali. “Preface.” In Privileges and Rights of Citizenship: Law and the Juridical
Construction of Civil Society, edited by Julius Kirshner and Laurent Mayali. Berkeley,
CA: Robbins Collection, 2002.
“Introduction.” In Guardianship and Inheritance: The Ways of Medieval and Early Modern
Jews, 1–14. Jewish History 16, no. 1 (2002).
Review Articles
“Government and Culture in the Renaissance City-State: Three Recent Studies.” Medievalia et
Humanistica 4 (1973): 211–16.
With Eric Cochrane. “Deconstructing Lane’s Venice.” Journal of Modern History 47, no. 2 (1975): 321–34.
“American Historiography of the Italian Renaissance.” Italian Quarterly 23 (1982): 51–54. “The Contingent Republic.” Review of J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine
Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Reviews in European History 3
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With Osvaldo Cavallar, “Ne ultra scarpas: Un cultore d’araldica fuorilegge,” Ius commune.
Zeitschrift für europäische Rechtsgeschichte 28 (2000): 297-311.
Reviews
Review of Benjamin Nelson, Usura e cristianesimo. Per una storia della genesi dell’etica
moderna. Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia 22, no. 2 (1969): 498-500.
Reviews of Myron P. Gilmore, ed. Studies on Machiavelli; and Martin Fleisher, Machiavelli and
the Nature of Political Thought. Journal of Modern History 45, no. 3 (1973): 484–86.
Review of Domenico Maffei, Il giovane Machiavelli banchiere con Berto Berti a Roma. Journal
of Modern History 46, no. 4 (1974): 724–25.
Review of Richard C. Trexler, The Spiritual Power. Church History 43, no. 4 (1974): 539. Review of P. J. Jones, The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State. Church History 44, no. 1
(1975): 108–9.
Review of Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, Cardinali di curia e “familiae” cardinalizie dal 1227
al 1254, 2 vols. Church History 44, no. 1 (1975): 109–11.
Review of Walter Ullmann, Law and Politics in the Middle Ages. Church History 44, no. 3 (1975): 400.
Review of Charles Trinkaus and Heiko Oberman, The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and
Renaissance Thought. Journal of Modern History 47, no. 4 (1975): 712–16.
Review of Marcella T. Grendler, The “Trattato politico-morale” of Giovanni Cavalcanti
(1381-c.1451). Speculum 51, no. 2 (1976): 323–25.
Review of Mario Martelli, L’altro Niccolò di Bernardo Machiavelli. Journal of Modern History 48, no. 2 (1976): 337–38.
Review of Bruno Paradisi, Apologia della storia giuridica. American Journal of Legal History 20, no. 2 (1976): 158–61.
Review of John Wright, The Life of Cola di Rienzo. Church History 45, no. 2 (1976): 252–53. Review of Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Perugia, 1260-1340: Conflict and Change in a Medieval
Italian Urban Society. Church History 46, no. 3 (1977): 395–96.
Review of James C. Davis, A Venetian Family and Its Fortune. Journal of Modern History 49, no. 3 (1977): 505–7.
Review of Peter Partner, Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559. Church History 46, no. 3 (1977): 397– 98.
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Review of Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk, and E. P. Thompson, Family and Inheritance: Rural Society
in Western Europe, 1200-1800. Journal of Modern History 50, no. 2 (1978): 320–22.
Review of Charles Carrière, Marcel Courdurié, Michel Gutsatz, and René Squarzoni, Banque et
capitalisme commercial: La lettre de change au XVIIIe siècle. Journal of Modern History
50, no. 3 (1978): 523–24.
Review of Paolo Grossi, Un altro modo di possedere. American Journal of Legal History 22, no. 4 (1978): 342–46.
Review of Denys Hay, The Church in Italy in the Fifteenth Century. Speculum 53, no. 4 (1978): 812–13.
Review of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Lettere, Vol. 1 (1460-1474), edited by Riccardo Fubini,
Renaissance Quarterly 32, no. 1 (1979): 77–79.
Review of Bruno Paradisi, La formazione storica del diritto moderno in Europa. Journal of
Modern History 51, no. 1 (1979): 127–30.
Review of Jacques Le Goff, Pour un autre Moyen Age; Temps, travail et culture en Occident: 18
essais. Church History 48, no. 2 (1979): 219–20.
Review of Paolo Malanima, I Riccardi di Firenze: Una famiglia e un patrimonio nella Toscana
dei Medici. Journal of Modern History 51, no. 2 (1979): 361–63.
Review of J. A. S. Evans and R. W. Unger, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History.
Church History 49, no. 1 (1980): 103.
Review of Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson, Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740; and Odd Langholm, Price and Value in the Aristotelian Tradition. Journal of Modern History 52, no. 2 (1980): 292–95.
Review of Alison Brown, Bartolomeo Scala, 1430-1497, Chancellor of Florence: The Humanist
as Bureaucrat. Speculum 55, no. 3 (1980): 529–32.
Review of Amleto Spicciani, La mercatura e la formazione del prezzo nella riflessione teologica
medioevale. Church History 49, no. 3 (1980): 325–26.
Review of J. H. Hexter, On Historians. Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and
Legal Philosophy 90, no. 4 (1980): 596-602; Italian version, “Recensori e storici in
America: J. H. Hexter.” Studi Storici 23 (1980): 317-24
Reviews of Lorenzo de’ Medici Lettere, Vol. 2 (1474-1478), edited by Riccardo Fubini; and Denis Fachard, Biagio Buonaccorsi: Sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre. Journal of Modern
History 53, no. 1 (1981): 129–31.
Reviews of Manlio Bellomo, Società e istituzioni in Italia tra medievo ed età moderna; Saggio
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università medievali. Le “Quaestiones disputatae.” American Journal of Legal History
25, no. 2 (1981): 163–66.
Review of Peter Raymond Pazzaglini, The Criminal Ban of the Sienese Commune, 1225-1310.
American Historical Review 86, no. 2 (1981): 386–87.
Review of Richard A. Goldthwaite, The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and
Social History. The Journal of Economic History 41, no. 3 (1981): 671–72.
Review of Melissa Meriam Bullard, Filippo Strozzi and the Medici: Favor & Finance in
Sixteenth-Century Florence & Rome. Journal of Modern History 54, no. 1 (1982): 137–
39.
Review of Giacomo Todeschini, Un trattato di economia politica francescana: Il “De
emptionibus et venditionibus, de usuris, de restitutionibus” di Pietro di Giovanni Olivi. Church History 51, no. 3 (1982): 337–38.
Review of Judith C. Brown, In the Shadow of Florence: Provincial Society in Renaissance
Pescia. Journal of Economic History 43, no. 2 (1983): 506–8.
Reviews of Alberto Grohmann, Città e territorio tra medioevo ed età moderna, saec. XIII-XVI;
La città nella storia d’Italia: Perugia. Journal of Modern History 55, no. 4 (1983): 748–
50.
Review of Alan Watson, The Making of the Civil Law. Journal of Modern History 55, no. 4 (1983): 715–17.
Review of Randolph Starn, Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and
Renaissance Italy. American Historical Review 88, no. 5 (1983): 1258–59.
Review of A. London Fell, Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State. Vol. 1:
Corasius and the Renaissance Systematization of Roman Law; Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State. Vol. 2: Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Foundations of Corasius’ Systematic Methodology. Renaissance Quarterly 37, no. 3
(1984): 425–28.
Review of Charles M. De La Roncière, Prix et Salaires à Florence au XIVe siècle, 1280-1380. Journal of Economic History 44, no. 3 (1984): 848–49.
Review of Diego Quaglioni, Politica e diritto nel trecento italiano: Il “De tyranno” di Bartolo
da Sassoferrato (1314-1357) con l’edizione critica dei trattati “De Guelphis et
Gebellinis,” “De regimine civitatis,” e “De tyranno.” Journal of Modern History 57,
no. 2 (1985): 323–24.
Review of Bartolomé Clavero, Usura: Del uso económico de la religion en la historia. Journal
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Review of Euan Cameron, The Reformation of the Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps,
1480-1580. Journal of Religion 67, no. 1 (1987): 99–100.
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Review of Mario Montorzi, Fides in rem publicam: Ambiguità e tecniche del diritto comune.
American Historical Review 92, no. 5 (1987): 1190.
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Review of Daniel R. Lesnick, Preaching in Medieval Florence: The Social World of Franciscan
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Review of Philip Gavitt, Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence. The Ospedale degli
Innocenti, 1410-1536. Italica 69, no. 4 (1992): 531–34.
Review of Amleto Spicciani, Capitale e interesse tra mercatura povertà nei teologi e canonisti
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Review of Carol Lansing, The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval
Commune. American Historical Review 97, no. 5 (1992): 1505–6.
Review of John K. Brackett, Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence,
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Review of Paolo Prodi, Il Sacramento del potere: Il giuramento politico nella storia
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Review of Carol Bresnahan Menning, Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di
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Review of António M. Hespanha, La gracia del derecho: Economia de la cultura en la Edad
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Review of Peter Riesenberg, Citizenship in the Western Tradition: Plato to Rousseau. Società e
storia 68 (1995): 408-11.
Review of Robert Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 47, no. 1 (1996): 177–80.
Review of Melissa Meriam Bullard, Lorenzo il Magnifico: Image and Anxiety, Politics and
Finance. Speculum 71, no. 1 (1996): 138–40.
Review of Joanne M. Ferraro, Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650: The Foundations
of Power in the Venetian State. Renaissance Quarterly 49, no. 1 (1996): 130–31.
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Review of Christine Shaw, The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy, International History
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Review of Sergio Tognetti, Il banco Cambini: Affairi e mercati di una compagnia
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(2002): 181–83.
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Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250. American Historical Review 111, no. 1
(2006): 249–50.
Review of Anthony F. D’Elia, The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Journal
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