In: Consumption markets & culture, 2021, p. 24
As a result of Covid-19 outbreak, surgical facemasks first emerged as a pandemic icon to then expand into a marketplace icon, with substantial transformations in their meanings, uses, and commercial expressions. This essay contends that facemasks have become a (post-)pandemic marketplace icon by articulating tensions in the socio-cultural, the public media, and the economic sphere. Relying ...
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In: Bethlehem. A Sociocultural History, 2020, p. 25-40
The paper is a post-print version of an article originally published in Mitri Raheb (ed.), "Bethlehem. A Sociocultural History", Bethlehem: Diyar Publishers, 2020, p. 25-40, though without the illustrations presented here. It analyses the dynamics by which the kinetic dimension of pilgrimage contributed to invest the landscape associated with the way leading from Jerusalem to Bethlehem with...
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ISBN: 2827101122
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In: Scientific Reports, 2020, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 10420
The Mont-Blanc massif, being iconic with its large glaciers and peaks of over 4,000 m, will experience a sharp increase in summer temperatures during the twenty-first century. By 2100, the impact of climate change on the cryosphere and hydrosphere in the Alps is expected to lead to a decrease in annual river discharge. In this work, we modelled the twenty-first century evolution of runoff in...
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In: Ex-Voto. Votive Giving Across Cultures, 2016, p. 76-105
Ex-voto; Pro-Anima Images
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In: Codex Aquilarensis, 2017, vol. 33, p. 107-126
The present article proposes some thoughts about the outcomes of recent research on the phenomenon once described by Andrew Martindale as the “intrusion of the secular”. This expression was meant to synthetically summarize the historical vicissitudes which, in the course of the Middle Ages, encouraged the laity to appropriate large portions of sacred space and decorate them with such visual...
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In: Le Vie della Misericordia, 2017, p. 81-106
The present paper discusses materials collected and analysed in the frame of a research project coordinated by Michele Bacci at Fribourg University and supported by the Swiss National Found. It focuses on the spread of Marian cultic phenomena along the maritime routes between Venice and the Holy Land, which corresponded to the major commercial itineraries among territories mainly belonging to the...
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In: Landscape Ecology, 2013, vol. 28, no. 5, p. 819-833
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In: L’officina dello sguardo. Scritti in onore di Maria Andaloro, 2014, vol. I, p. 137-144
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In: Atlante delle Tebaidi e dei temi figurativi, 2013, p. 6-11
Tebaidi; Desert; Contemplation
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