Stephen J. Milner- PhD
- Chair at The University of Manchester
Stephen J. Milner
- PhD
- Chair at The University of Manchester
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Introduction
I have been Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester since 2006. Between October 2017 and January 2021, I was on secondment as Director of the British School at Rome. I was Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at the Harvard Centre for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence in 2012. Between 1992-2006 I was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol and Lecturer in Italian at the University of Cambridge for the academic year 1991-92.
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October 2017 - January 2021
British School at Rome
Position
- Managing Director
August 1992 - August 2006
August 1991 - July 1992
Education
January 1987 - September 1996
September 1982 - July 1985
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Publications (98)
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The lecture examines the tensions and compromises in the reception of Dante which straddled the sectarian divide, and the role of contemporary discourses on toleration, freedom of worship and freedom of speech in facilitating the accommodation of diverse readings. Particular attention is paid to the nonconformist reception context of 19th industria...
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This study reports the first use, to our knowledge, of triboelectric extraction of protein from parchment. The method is noninvasive and requires no specialist equipment or storage. Samples can be collected without the need to transport the artifacts; instead, researchers can sample when and where possible and analyze when required. Th...
Emotions depend on language, cultural practices, expectation and moral beliefs. Hate, fear, cruelty and love are always turning history into the history of passion and lust, because emotional life is always ready to overflow intellectual life. This fascinating study of emotion in Renaissance Italy shows that emotions are built and created by the so...
Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating...
2013 was the 700th anniversary of the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio's birth (1313-1375). This film introduces an exhibition entitled 'Locating Boccaccio in 2013', which was designed to commemorate this great author and his works, and also to reflect upon his legacy and meanings
Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating...
Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating...
An innovative new project that forms a strand within the larger 'Books and Beasts' initiative, taking material bibliography in new and exciting directions. Using an innovative non-destructive technique that isolates the collagen signature of the species used to make parchment, we are now able to identify the wide variety of animal skins used in the...
Conferenza stampa-Sala Verrocchio, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 15 febbraio 2013 ore 12: Saluti delle autorità ore 12.15: Prof. Lino Pertile (Director of Villa I Tatti-The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) Saluto dell'Università di Harvard-Villa I Tatti Prof. Stephen Milner (Serena Professor of Italian-University of Manche...
The renaissance of interest in classical rhetoric in late medieval Italian literary culture stands at the heart of many accounts of the origins of humanism as an educational programme and set of critical practices. This article, however, seeks to examine the spoken rather than the written word and the vernacular rather than Latin transmission of sp...
This chapter examines how Boccaccio in the Proemio and Conclusione of the Decameron subverts the normative medieval discourses of consolation as found within the Italian vernacular traditions of the Consolation of Philosophy and the ars dictaminis to serve a wholly different and erotically charged function. By exploiting the mediating function of w...
This collection of essays explores consolation and mourning in the varied, sometimes provocative, readings of Boethius and of Stoic consolation by French, English, Italian and German authors, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machaut, Chaucer, Wyatt and Queen Elizabeth I.
What is consolation? Is it the action of an individual offering solace to another? Is consolation a moment of empathy, or an expression of sympathy? Do we console someone in person in silence, through gesture, or through speeches? Or do we console them from a distance by sending words or things: letters, poems, or gifts? Do we imagine that these th...
David Wallace is currently Chair of Comparative Literature and Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. The following interview took place in London on 21 July 2005, within earshot of the police response to what turned out to be the failed bombing of Warren Street tube station. It took as its point of departure his most...
Communication, Consensus and Conflict: Rhetorical precepts, the ars concionandi, and social ordering in late medieval Italy The aim of the present chapter is to examine the place of public-speaking in the tradition of medieval and Renaissance Ciceronianism in Italy. Given that the classical rhetorical tradition, and the works of Cicero in particula...
Slaves, foundlings, prostitutes, nuns, homosexuals, exiles, the elderly, and mountain communities - such groups stood at the margins of society in premodern Italy. But where precisely the margins were was not so easily determined. Examining these minorities as the buffer zones between more readily recognizable centers, At the Margins explores ident...
This book considers the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula, such as Ferrara, Bologna, Ancona, San Gimignano, and Pistoia, which had flourishing local cultures of their own. Offering a perspective that focuses on dialogue and exchange between different urban centers and cultur...
Florence has often been studied in the past for its distinctive urban culture and society, while insufficient attention has been paid to the important Tuscan territorial state that was created by Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Comprising a handful of formerly independent city-states and numerous smaller communities in the plain...
The intention of this article is to study the significance of the raised platform, or ringhiera, of the Palazzo Pubblico in Florence as both an architectural and symbolic construct, and to examine how its physical situation and literary citation imagined it as the locus of legitimation in the context of continued political struggle within the nasce...
By considering a variety of readings of Renaissance Florence from Burckhardt to the present, this article discusses the nature of the interrelation between the archive and the historian, with a view to illustrating the partiality of both. The records contained within the archives are by nature fragmentary; vestiges of the past, they are also partia...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1997.
The problem of faction has troubled contemporary historians as much as it troubled late Medieval and Renaissance Florentines. What exactly is a faction? How were they constituted? Who were the Guelfs and the Ghibellines? Often the ascription of factionalism has been used by scholars as sufficient causal...
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