3 European Projects Found
Searched on 125080 European Projects
FINISHED
Luxury, fashion and social status in Early Modern South Eastern Europe (LuxFaSS)
Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,
It is hard to give a broadly acceptable definition of the concept of luxury, which as a field of study has also been largely neglected by historians and sociologists. From a moral or philosophical point of view, luxury is seen as a form of decadence, although from the economic perspective it is seen as a force that drives development of the consumerist economy. Every society knows it in some form, ...
Read Project
1
Partner Participant
FINISHED
Record-keeping, fiscal reform, and the rise of institutional accountability in late-medieval Savoy: a source-oriented approach (CASTELLANY ACCOUNTS)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,
The present research project focuses on an unjustly neglected corpus of late-medieval sources, the administrative and fiscal accounts (‘computi’) of the castellanies – basic administrative units – of the county of Savoy. I propose a holistic model of analysis that can fully capitalise on the unusual wealth of detail of the Savoyard source material, in order to illuminate some key topics in late-me ...
Read Project
1
Partner Participant
FINISHED
The medicine of the mind and natural philosophy in early modern England: A new interpretation of Francis Bacon (MOM)
Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2014,
The aim of the project is to provide a groundbreaking new interpretation of Francis Bacon's natural philosophy. The original aspect of this project will consist in a new contextualisation of Bacon's philosophy. We argue that his work can be seen as one of the most characteristic products of what we have decided to call, for reasons of heuristic and exegetical convenience, the medicine of the mind. ...
Read Project
