Valentina Costantini
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Valentina Costantini
@wallolita.bsky.social
Research Associate at @UofGlasgow ERC #ArtandInequality, Medievalist with a passion for social history, archives, writing, travelling & exploring the outdoors
Lovely miniature from an early XV c. #inventorybook ... #staytuned because soon there will be... an #homicide with #inventory from 1380s!

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goes beyond testaments!
@uofglasgow.bsky.social

#medievalsky
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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
@artandinequality.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#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
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
taking @artandinequality.bsky.social at @khiflorenz.bsky.social today - the beauty of this room is all for me (for now!)
#arthistory #beautifullibraries #medievalsky
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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
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
@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
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
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
✈️ 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
July 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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
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
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
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
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
June 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Back to Lucca State Archives for @artandinequality.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Looking forward to taking #ArtInequal @artandinequality.bsky.social at the workshop on Objects and Material Culture between Middle Ages and Renaissance organised at the University of Padova @unipd.bsky.social this 15th-16th May. Fascinating research projects at the round table!
May 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Glasgow Blues
May 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#NostalgicMainland sea views from Pozzuoli port (missing travelling around with a proper camera)
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
April 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Pezzi d’Europa a Firenze ✨🚋🚲💜🌈!
#FirenzeCiclabile #scudoverde #evvaivoltram #viabilitasostenibile
April 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
With my 🛶 fellows on beautifully green and still #Arno #canoeingflorence #riversidewonders #outdoorslifestyle
April 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM