Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) plays an increasingly important role in language
education, both as a feature of foreign language teaching and learning, and as an element of bilingual
and plurilingual education. As learners develop their language competences, they are able to deal with
evermore complex topics, so teaching…[Read more]

Recent explorations in L2 pedagogy signal a shift away from the conventional concept of method
toward a “post method condition” that can potentially refigure the relationship between theorizers and
teachers by empowering teachers with knowledge, skill, and autonomy. So empowered, teachers could
devise for themselves a systematic, coherent,…[Read more]

Legal Expertise at a Late-Tenth-Century Monastery in Central Italy, or Disputing Property Donations and the History of Law in Benedict of Monte Soratte’s Chronicle

Invoking Gregory on the Caelian in Medieval Rome: A Study of an Inscription at SS. Giovanni e Paolo

Annulling Inherited Contracts: Legal Possibilities and Strategies at Early Medieval Italian Monasteries

Middle Ages; 10th-11th centuries; Farfa; Lombard law; notarial culture; breve

This article investigates two controversies that reveal the deeply intertwined nature of legal strategies and archival practices at the monasteries of Farfa and Monte Amiata around the turn of the millennium. It argues that the protagonists of these cases, abbots knowledgeable in law and the history of their monasteries, pursued markedly…[Read more]

This article investigates the ideological implications of Pope Gregory the Great’s beard for Catholic reformers of the sixteenth century. It argues that the portrayal of Gregory as clean-shaven, with a “moderate” beard, or with a long bushy beard (all representations that are to be found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Roman art and schol…[Read more]

Francesca Romana

Jordanes’ Romana