Prof Guido Alfani stendine in front of a screen showing a slide of his presentations with graph on the evolution of inequality between 1300 and 2010

Prof Guido Alfani in front of screen projector showing another slide of his presentation: the wealth share of the top 5% in 1300-1300 Italy

This Thursday 9 April we had the pleasure to host @guidoalfani.bsky.social at the @glasgow.ac.uk - we discuss our #ArtandInequality project and attended his lecture on #Inequality in #Europe 1300-1800

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A Privileged Peephole into the Past: The Freedom of Married Women? - Art & Inequality The quantitative context: I have just finished coding the photographs of parchment testaments from the Archivio di Stato, Firenze [hereafter ASF] Diplomatico of the famous Florentine Dominican friary,...

Do you want to know about #freedom of #marriedwomen in the Middle Ages? Here is Prof Samuel Cohn's latest post for our #ArtandInequality webpage ⬇️

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books piled on a wooden table. Library shelves on the background

Taking #ArtandInequality at @khiflorenz.bsky.social today for a day of reading and writing - drafting my paper on #objects #circularecnomy #reuse in 14thc Florence and #hospital of Santa Maria Nuova (second paper of 2026!)
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Another amazing project grew out of our #ArtandInequality will be published soon!

1300 register opened and showing original writings, brown ink on paper, damaged by water

More from #flooded registers of the Florentine, now vanished convent of San Pier Maggiore - #staytuned for a new coming publication on #pigsbreeding and #meatconsumption in Florence using these amazing data! Another project grew out of #ArtandInequality @artandinequality.bsky.social

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A fascinating research project grew out #ArtandInequality will be presented at the University of Milan in April 2026 #staytuned! #materialculture #reuse #circulareconomy #medievalhospitals

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program of the meetings with a medieval painting - woman with hair tight and red dress, and a fruit tree on the background

Have a look at the meetings planned in Milan for 2026. For those interested in #objects, #circulareconomy and #medievalhospital just #staytuned! In April, with Serena Galasso we present a truly fascinating research project linked to #ArtandInequality!
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murder of Abel, medieval miniature, blue background. Abel falling on the green grass while being hit with a heavy hummer by his brother (not visible in the picture)

Why starting 2026 with an #homicide? ⬇️ Have a read at our latest blog @artandinequality.bsky.social to find out about a mysterious #murder, an #inventory and forthcoming #projects and #publications for #ArtandInequality
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➡️ link: www.artandinequality.com/homicide-wit...

Have a read at our latest post to find out more about a #murder, a #list and some of #ArtandInequality goals and achievements at the turn of the year

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Seminar brochure with medieval miniature showing men counting coins, reading documents and writing on a book

Today #ArtandInequality will be presenting a first draft of our paper on #executivedoments #materialculture #devotion and #socialhistory for the #QSRM project - hybrid seminar
Link ⬇️ www.fscire.it/index.php/sc...
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capital letters from a 14th century index in manuscript. Black ink on paper

More #indexes from 14th century #Florence for our #ArtandInequality project @wallolita.bsky.social

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handwritten list of names, index from 14th century book, on brown paper

Today @artandinequality.bsky.social is diving into thousands of names of 14th c. men and women - a pure joy and a gold mine for #socialhistory #culturalhistory #materialculture #hospitalhistory #demography #Florentinehistory and so much more!
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Our Friday morning mood for #ArtandInequality #FlorenceNationalLibrary
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Cappuccino mignon a table with bike helmet and medieval church of the Holy Cross (Florence) in the background

#ArtandInequality will have a full morning at the National Library in Florence today 📚…but #cappuccino first ☕️
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Home - Art & Inequality 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...

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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@iashedinburgh.bsky.social Prof Samuel Cohn's project on #ArtandInequality can also be followed through our blog and website

Treasures for our #ArtandInequality project

Medieval register on a table. Closed. Hundreds of pages

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

@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

Just landed at the #ArtAndInequality 3rd annual meeting at #Castellodisantasevera
Looking forward to tomorrow's presentations surrounded by beauty and good food
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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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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 ...

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

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

Valentina Costantini @wallolita.bsky.social is presenting part of her work for #ArtAndInequality at #LeedsIMC2025

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

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.

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