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‘Medieval’, ‘Renaissance’, ‘Modern’. Issues of Periodization in Italian University History
(The Society for Renaissance Studies / John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013-09-13)
Italian university historiography is strongly influenced by current notions of periodization and change. ‘Medieval’ universities have been seen as unique but soon outdated creations, to be overtaken by ‘Renaissance’ ...
Regulating the 1918-19 pandemic: flu, stoicism and the Northcliffe press.
(2013-04)
Social historians have argued that the reason the 1918–19 ‘Spanish’ influenza left so few traces in public memory is that it was ‘overshadowed’ by the First World War, hence its historiographical characterisation as the ...