Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death
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Collecting and cataloguing art commissions made by European non-elite from 1225 to 1525, to explore two interrelated fields—economic inequality and cultural history.
#ArtandInequality will have a full morning at the National Library in Florence today 📚…but #cappuccino first ☕️
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November 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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While waiting to release my new post on 1380s #homicide with list, I am re-posting my blog on 15thc. Brabantine baker and globetrotter who may have had my same #migrantcurse, loving and regretting every place he lived in 😅
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Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death Collecting and cataloguing art commissions made by members of different social strata - from paupers to the elite - in Europe from 1225 to 1525, to ex...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
While waiting to release my new post on 1380s #homicide with list, I am re-posting my blog on 15thc. Brabantine baker and globetrotter who may have had my same #migrantcurse, loving and regretting every place he lived in 😅
#ArtandInequality project
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@genderandhistory.bsky.social has moved to the University of Edinburgh
We are delighted to announce that Gender & History now has a new home at the University of Edinburgh. With thanks to the Sheffield team who did a stellar job for the last five years. hca.ed.ac.uk/gender-histo...
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'Gender & History' moves to Edinburgh | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
The School is very excited to announce that the leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ has moved to the University of Edinburgh.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
@genderandhistory.bsky.social has moved to the University of Edinburgh
Treasures for our #ArtandInequality project
Starting the week with the a high dose of medieval #inventories of mobile goods - a goldmine of #everydaylife from 800 years ago for our #ArtandInequality project @artandinequality.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Treasures for our #ArtandInequality project
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Starting the week with the a high dose of medieval #inventories of mobile goods - a goldmine of #everydaylife from 800 years ago for our #ArtandInequality project @artandinequality.bsky.social
#medievalsky
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November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Starting the week with the a high dose of medieval #inventories of mobile goods - a goldmine of #everydaylife from 800 years ago for our #ArtandInequality project @artandinequality.bsky.social
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Gems from our #ArtandInequality project - and much more coming soon! @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Lovely miniature from an early XV c. #inventorybook ... #staytuned because soon there will be... an #homicide with #inventory from 1380s!
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goes beyond testaments!
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goes beyond testaments!
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#medievalsky
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Gems from our #ArtandInequality project - and much more coming soon! @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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For the light of the eyes 👀 Look at this unsteady hand from mid 14th c just before Florence and all of Europe were about to be swept by the #BlackDeath (from the account books of the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova)
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November 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
For the light of the eyes 👀 Look at this unsteady hand from mid 14th c just before Florence and all of Europe were about to be swept by the #BlackDeath (from the account books of the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova)
#medievalsky
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#medievalsky
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Why collecting so many data from the past? Have a read at #artandinequality #Halloween weekend post by our PI Samuel Cohn about his last research trip to #florence #historyofart #medievalsky @artandinequality.bsky.social
A Privileged Peep Hole into the Past: - Art & Inequality
Why large numbers of testaments are needed and how exceptions to rules can be relevant I have just returned from a short stint in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (ASF), 18 September to 2 October. It ...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Why collecting so many data from the past? Have a read at #artandinequality #Halloween weekend post by our PI Samuel Cohn about his last research trip to #florence #historyofart #medievalsky @artandinequality.bsky.social
A Privileged Peep Hole into the Past:
Why large numbers of testaments are needed and how exceptions to rules can be relevant I have just returned from a short stint in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (ASF), 18 September to 2 October. It may be my last archival collecting of testaments for the…
Why large numbers of testaments are needed and how exceptions to rules can be relevant I have just returned from a short stint in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (ASF), 18 September to 2 October. It may be my last archival collecting of testaments for the…
A Privileged Peep Hole into the Past:
Why large numbers of testaments are needed and how exceptions to rules can be relevant I have just returned from a short stint in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (ASF), 18 September to 2 October. It may be my last archival collecting of testaments for the project, at least in the ASF. The purpose was to increase the sample size of my last quartile of Pisan testaments,1501-25.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A Privileged Peep Hole into the Past:
Why large numbers of testaments are needed and how exceptions to rules can be relevant I have just returned from a short stint in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (ASF), 18 September to 2 October. It may be my last archival collecting of testaments for the…
Why large numbers of testaments are needed and how exceptions to rules can be relevant I have just returned from a short stint in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (ASF), 18 September to 2 October. It may be my last archival collecting of testaments for the…
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Is always 🎃 #Halloweenmood for @artandinequality.bsky.social when we dig into #medieval #testaments 💀 Today it is a beautiful book of testaments from the Florentine hospital of #SantaMariaNuova
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October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Is always 🎃 #Halloweenmood for @artandinequality.bsky.social when we dig into #medieval #testaments 💀 Today it is a beautiful book of testaments from the Florentine hospital of #SantaMariaNuova
#medievalsky
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#Pointing out a beautiful day in the archives with friend and colleague Serena Galasso looking for bequests, objects, people and #secondhand market in Medieval Florence
Big updates are on the way — #staytuned for more!
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#medievalsky
Big updates are on the way — #staytuned for more!
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#medievalsky
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#Pointing out a beautiful day in the archives with friend and colleague Serena Galasso looking for bequests, objects, people and #secondhand market in Medieval Florence
Big updates are on the way — #staytuned for more!
@artandinequality.bsky.social
#medievalsky
Big updates are on the way — #staytuned for more!
@artandinequality.bsky.social
#medievalsky
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taking @artandinequality.bsky.social at @khiflorenz.bsky.social today - the beauty of this room is all for me (for now!)
#arthistory #beautifullibraries #medievalsky
#arthistory #beautifullibraries #medievalsky
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
taking @artandinequality.bsky.social at @khiflorenz.bsky.social today - the beauty of this room is all for me (for now!)
#arthistory #beautifullibraries #medievalsky
#arthistory #beautifullibraries #medievalsky
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Look at this #knots & #bingins - lucky to be researching #pigs, #meat, #textiles and #devotionalobjects in this beautiful 14th century book for @artandinequality.bsky.social
and my #piggycities projects on pigs husbandry and meat consumption Medieval Tuscany #medievalsky
and my #piggycities projects on pigs husbandry and meat consumption Medieval Tuscany #medievalsky
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Look at this #knots & #bingins - lucky to be researching #pigs, #meat, #textiles and #devotionalobjects in this beautiful 14th century book for @artandinequality.bsky.social
and my #piggycities projects on pigs husbandry and meat consumption Medieval Tuscany #medievalsky
and my #piggycities projects on pigs husbandry and meat consumption Medieval Tuscany #medievalsky
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Being an expat myself for many years, Augustinus' story talked to me! Click here ⬇️ to read more about this Brabantin baker and globetrotter from
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🧳🧭🚶♀️🌎
#ArtandInequality #medievaltravels #foreigners #expatlife #artisans #memory #arthisory #flanders #tuscany
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🧳🧭🚶♀️🌎
#ArtandInequality #medievaltravels #foreigners #expatlife #artisans #memory #arthisory #flanders #tuscany
Globetrotter Baker: Expat Life on Paint and Thread - Art & Inequality
Expats have loosen roots and look for peers to reconstruct a sense of community and navigate everyday life together. Here is Augustinus’ story… from 1450s. Augustinus de Lovana was a 15th c. baker fro...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Being an expat myself for many years, Augustinus' story talked to me! Click here ⬇️ to read more about this Brabantin baker and globetrotter from
@artandinequality.bsky.social
🧳🧭🚶♀️🌎
#ArtandInequality #medievaltravels #foreigners #expatlife #artisans #memory #arthisory #flanders #tuscany
@artandinequality.bsky.social
🧳🧭🚶♀️🌎
#ArtandInequality #medievaltravels #foreigners #expatlife #artisans #memory #arthisory #flanders #tuscany
Going solo 🧳🚶♀️🧭? Check out this expact's story from 1450s 🌎 by our @wallolita.bsky.social
Globetrotter Baker: Expat Life on Paint and Thread - Art & Inequality
Expats have loosen roots and look for peers to reconstruct a sense of community and navigate everyday life together. Here is Augustinus’ story… from 1450s. Augustinus de Lovana was a 15th c. baker fro...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Going solo 🧳🚶♀️🧭? Check out this expact's story from 1450s 🌎 by our @wallolita.bsky.social
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15th c rich Brabantine baker and globetrotter. Coding his testament for @artandinequality.bsky.social and thinking how he must have had my same #migrantcurse, loving and regretting every place he has been living in 😅✨
#medievalmigrants #crossingboarders #medievalwork #artandinequality
#medievalmigrants #crossingboarders #medievalwork #artandinequality
September 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
15th c rich Brabantine baker and globetrotter. Coding his testament for @artandinequality.bsky.social and thinking how he must have had my same #migrantcurse, loving and regretting every place he has been living in 😅✨
#medievalmigrants #crossingboarders #medievalwork #artandinequality
#medievalmigrants #crossingboarders #medievalwork #artandinequality
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@artandinequality.bsky.social 3rd annual meeting has official started at Santa Severa rocked by the sea 🌊 and blessed by the sun ☀️ more coming soon 🔜
#artandinequality #ERC #castlelife #arthistory #socialhistory #materialculture
#artandinequality #ERC #castlelife #arthistory #socialhistory #materialculture
September 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
@artandinequality.bsky.social 3rd annual meeting has official started at Santa Severa rocked by the sea 🌊 and blessed by the sun ☀️ more coming soon 🔜
#artandinequality #ERC #castlelife #arthistory #socialhistory #materialculture
#artandinequality #ERC #castlelife #arthistory #socialhistory #materialculture
Our team is at work at #santasevera and soon @adamlinson.bsky.social will take the floor with his presentation on new forms of analysis for our data on #testaments #objectsforremembrance #inequalities
@artandinequality.bsky.social 3rd annual meeting has official started at Santa Severa rocked by the sea 🌊 and blessed by the sun ☀️ more coming soon 🔜
#artandinequality #ERC #castlelife #arthistory #socialhistory #materialculture
#artandinequality #ERC #castlelife #arthistory #socialhistory #materialculture
September 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Our team is at work at #santasevera and soon @adamlinson.bsky.social will take the floor with his presentation on new forms of analysis for our data on #testaments #objectsforremembrance #inequalities
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While the @artandinequality.bsky.social project works on its proposal for #IMC2026 our PI Prof Samuel Cohn gets the front page here ⬇️
This is your two week reminder that the deadline for #IMC2026 Paper Proposal is Sunday 31 August!😱 Click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/ to submit a proposal, and click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/pro... to read our handy proposal criteria guide.😊
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August 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
While the @artandinequality.bsky.social project works on its proposal for #IMC2026 our PI Prof Samuel Cohn gets the front page here ⬇️
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✈️ Off for a little break from the #artandinequality project (but not really) to get to Coimbra #EURHO2025 with 2 panels on "Pigs in late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe: breeding, production and consumption (11th-16th centuries)" @artandinequality.bsky.social
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September 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
✈️ Off for a little break from the #artandinequality project (but not really) to get to Coimbra #EURHO2025 with 2 panels on "Pigs in late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe: breeding, production and consumption (11th-16th centuries)" @artandinequality.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
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Great session yesterday 10th Sept on #pigs in Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Europe. Breeding, Production and Consumption (11th-16th c.) at #EURHO2025 🐖!
Thanks to
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @artandinequality.bsky.social for the support and to co-organiser and friend Davide Cristoferi!
Thanks to
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @artandinequality.bsky.social for the support and to co-organiser and friend Davide Cristoferi!
September 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Great session yesterday 10th Sept on #pigs in Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Europe. Breeding, Production and Consumption (11th-16th c.) at #EURHO2025 🐖!
Thanks to
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @artandinequality.bsky.social for the support and to co-organiser and friend Davide Cristoferi!
Thanks to
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @artandinequality.bsky.social for the support and to co-organiser and friend Davide Cristoferi!
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Just landed at the #ArtAndInequality 3rd annual meeting at #Castellodisantasevera
Looking forward to tomorrow's presentations surrounded by beauty and good food
@artandinequality.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
#artandinequality #medievalhistory #socialhistory #arthistory #materialculture
Looking forward to tomorrow's presentations surrounded by beauty and good food
@artandinequality.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
#artandinequality #medievalhistory #socialhistory #arthistory #materialculture
September 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just landed at the #ArtAndInequality 3rd annual meeting at #Castellodisantasevera
Looking forward to tomorrow's presentations surrounded by beauty and good food
@artandinequality.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
#artandinequality #medievalhistory #socialhistory #arthistory #materialculture
Looking forward to tomorrow's presentations surrounded by beauty and good food
@artandinequality.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
#artandinequality #medievalhistory #socialhistory #arthistory #materialculture
Who’s that girl?
Find out how a unique survival in a 15th-century testament provides a glimpse of what the testator looked like - and how that has inspired a present-day portrait, here: www.artandinequality.com/meet-concima...
#medievalhistory #renaissancehistory #archives #manuscripts
Find out how a unique survival in a 15th-century testament provides a glimpse of what the testator looked like - and how that has inspired a present-day portrait, here: www.artandinequality.com/meet-concima...
#medievalhistory #renaissancehistory #archives #manuscripts
Meet Concima: a self-portrait from 1400s to defeat time and oblivion - Art & Inequality
Medieval wills are precious mines of information for historians, art historians, scholars of fashion and material culture, but also for sociologists, anthropologists, economists.Behind the dryness of ...
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August 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Who’s that girl?
Find out how a unique survival in a 15th-century testament provides a glimpse of what the testator looked like - and how that has inspired a present-day portrait, here: www.artandinequality.com/meet-concima...
#medievalhistory #renaissancehistory #archives #manuscripts
Find out how a unique survival in a 15th-century testament provides a glimpse of what the testator looked like - and how that has inspired a present-day portrait, here: www.artandinequality.com/meet-concima...
#medievalhistory #renaissancehistory #archives #manuscripts