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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 3d

How the Reconquista Changed Rural Life in Medieval Spain www.medievalists.net/2025/10/how-... #medieval #history #reconquista

How the Reconquista Changed Rural Life in Medieval Spain - Medievalists.net

Archaeological evidence from Valencia and Granada reveals how the Reconquista transformed medieval Spain’s countryside—reshaping irrigation, farming, and village life as Islamic and Christian…

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · 9d

taking @artandinequality.bsky.social at @khiflorenz.bsky.social today - the beauty of this room is all for me (for now!)
#arthistory #beautifullibraries #medievalsky

library room with wooden shelves filled with books on the sides and wooden tables and chairs at the centre for library users

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · 11d

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 project on pigs husbandry and meat consumption in Medieval Tuscany #medievalsky

Leather-bound book with the date '1374' inscribed on the cover, secured with handmade knots

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · 25d

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

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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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Sep 23

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

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Sep 17

@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

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Sep 16

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

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Sep 11

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!

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Sep 9

✈️ 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

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Aug 19

While the @artandinequality.bsky.social project works on its proposal for #IMC2026 our PI Prof Samuel Cohn gets the front page here ⬇️

International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · Aug 17

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.😊

#medievalsky #skystorians

people sat in a session room making notes or sat listening.

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Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death @artandinequality.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Aug 14

Who wants to meet 15th c. Concima? My new post for @artandinequality.bsky.social is about defeating time and death by keeping one’s memory alive. Concima’s portrait is a unique example of this last for remembrance. Read about her here ⬇️ #ArtandInequality #remembrance ##women #medievaltestaments

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 ...

www.artandinequality.com

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jul 23

Back to the Future while digging the archives for the #ArtandInequality project @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalbutchers #florencestatearchives #foodhistory #materialculture

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jul 8

Taking a piece of @artandinequality.bsky.social to @imc-leeds.bsky.social with a talk about notarial books and testaments focusing on everyday life details woven into the texts. More about it soon ➡️

#artandinequality #LeedsIMC2025 #testaments #everyfaylife #archives #socialhistory

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jun 28

To finish off a hard week of personal disasters, meetings and panels organisations, proof reading…this is what I needed tonight 🌙 🌅 🌊

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jun 28

Hot off the press! Can’t wait to read it ⬇️ Interesting estays also for #ArtandInequaliry project @artandinequality.bsky.social

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Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death @artandinequality.bsky.social · Jun 20

♻️ Waste not, want not!

Discover more about how parchments were reused and recycled in the 14th century, plus some of our discoveries in the archives, here: www.artandinequality.com/waste-and-re...

#history #materialculture #waste #reuse #medievalbindings #medievalhistory #archives

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Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death @artandinequality.bsky.social · Jun 16

📜All the documents our project looks at have one thing in common - they were drawn up by a notary.

🪶Each medieval notary used a distinctive personal mark. Find out more here: www.artandinequality.com/whats-your-s...

#medievalhistory #arthistory #nonelite #history #testaments #notary

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Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death @artandinequality.bsky.social · Jun 10

See a new post from Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social‬ on binding #waste, #reuse of parchments and our mining work for the #ArtandInequality project

Waste and Reuse: unexpected covers and music on 14th c. notarial books

Siena State Archives, Notarile Antecosimiano 54 (1349) Waste and reuse are key topics in modern consumer society, but in the Middle Ages, there was no discussion around them. Considering the high cost of producing new objects, everything had to be reused, recycled, or transformed down to the very last bit. Parchments were made from animal skins (sheep, goat, or calf) and were therefore very durable and quite expensive.

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Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jun 9

Digging #medievalarchives to collect thousands of testaments for the #ArtandInequality project can be exhausting. Your day can be brighten up by
#manuscriptwaste reused for book bindings or the self-portrait of a woman from 600 years ago! 📢 Soon on www.artandinequality.com

Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jun 6

Today the presentation of the book by Serena Galasso, great historian, best colleague and a precious friend - Florence State Archives

#genderhistory #womenwriting #Renaissance #Florence #accountbooks

Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jun 5

First days of the #piedibus project in Florence - groups of kids and supervising adults will walk together to school every morning following arranged routes and scheduled stops along the way.

Thanks to all parents, volunteers, neighbourhoods and #legambiente

corrierefiorentino.corriere.it

Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thanks to Dr Aina Palarea for such a fascinating post! Linking patrons and objects is hard and rewarding work. More to come on this from #ArtandInquality project

Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social · Jun 5

Interesting post on documenting patrons and surviving objects. Very first blog post on our new website. More soon - stay tuned

#ArtInequal #medievalhistory #archives #materialculture #socialhistory #arthistory #devotion

Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death @artandinequality.bsky.social · Jun 3

A Testament in Stone: Guillem Castelló’s Columns in the Cloister of Vic

Have you ever walked through the cloister of Vic Cathedral and noticed a group of three slender Gothic columns marked at their base with a small coat of arms depicting a castle? These aren’t just decorative elements. They are…

A Testament in Stone: Guillem Castelló’s Columns in the Cloister of Vic

Have you ever walked through the cloister of Vic Cathedral and noticed a group of three slender Gothic columns marked at their base with a small coat of arms depicting a castle? These aren’t just decorative elements. They are the material legacy of a fourteenth-century canon who ensured his memory would be carved into the very stones of the cathedral he served.

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