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wallolita.bsky.social
Valentina Costantini
@wallolita.bsky.social
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Research Associate at @UofGlasgow ERC #ArtandInequality, Medievalist with a passion for social history, archives, writing, travelling & exploring the outdoors
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For the light of the eyes 👀 Look at this unsteady hand from mid 14th c just before Florence and all of Europe were about to be swept by the #BlackDeath (from the account books of the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova)
#medievalsky
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Medieval handwriting on paper
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Recreating Medieval Paintings with Light at St Albans Cathedral www.medievalists.net/2022/11/medi... #medievalart
Recreating Medieval Paintings with Light at St Albans Cathedral - Medievalists.net
During the Reformation, countless works of art within churches were destroyed or obscured. At St Albans Cathedral they use light projection to restore four medieval paintings.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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
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 ...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Medieval painted roof at Long Melford Church, Suffolk
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Is always 🎃 #Halloweenmood for @artandinequality.bsky.social when we dig into #medieval #testaments 💀 Today it is a beautiful book of testaments from the Florentine hospital of #SantaMariaNuova
#medievalsky
medieval register with leather binding. It has an inscription in old Italian "registro de' testamenti" and the dates 1363-1368 medieval register with leather binding. It has an inscription in old Italian "registro de' testamenti" and the dates 1363-1368
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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#Pointing out a beautiful day in the archives with friend and colleague Serena Galasso looking for bequests, objects, people and #secondhand market in Medieval Florence

Big updates are on the way — #staytuned for more!
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#medievalsky
index finger drawn on the side of medieval parchment. 14th century Florence index finger drawn on the side of medieval parchment. 14th century Florence index finger drawn in the middle of medieval parchment. 14th century Florence index finger drawn in the middle of medieval parchment. 14th century Florence
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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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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October 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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
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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September 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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@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
September 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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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
September 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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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!
September 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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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September 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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While the @artandinequality.bsky.social project works on its proposal for #IMC2026 our PI Prof Samuel Cohn gets the front page here ⬇️
imc-leeds.bsky.social 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.
August 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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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August 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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
August 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Back to the Future while digging the archives for the #ArtandInequality project @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalbutchers #florencestatearchives #foodhistory #materialculture
July 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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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
July 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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To finish off a hard week of personal disasters, meetings and panels organisations, proof reading…this is what I needed tonight 🌙 🌅 🌊
June 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Hot off the press! Can’t wait to read it ⬇️ Interesting estays also for #ArtandInequaliry project @artandinequality.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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♻️ 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
June 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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📜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
June 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM