Naples Photo Galleries

We’ve been happy to discover that our open-access Image Galleries on Flickr have been a popular addition to our Medieval Naples project. Thus far all images in our Naples gallery have had 47,000 views.

That encourages us to keep adding photos and other images to our galleries and to continue to link them to our Interactive Map of Medieval Naples.

Our two book-length publications, Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History, 400-1400 by Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo and Medieval Naples: A Documentary History History, 400-1400 by Ronald G. Musto have been selling well in their hardcover, paperback and Kindle editions.

New Kindle Edition

The newly revised Kindle edition of Ronald G. Musto’s Medieval Naples: A Documentary History, 400-1400 is now available. It offers the complete text with all the Kindle’s latest features, including hyperlinked footnotes, links to external resources, such as Italica Press image galleries and Interactive Map of Medieval Naples, and all images in full-color. All for only $9.99.

Now Kindle also offers free updates on all purchased Kindle titles. Be sure to follow their update instructions if you have already purchased a copy. 

Interactive Map updates

Our Interactive Map of Medieval Naples has now logged over 59,000 views; and we continue to update and revise it. Our latest update includes new information on the late ancient and medieval port, the Byzantine baths at Sta. Chiara, revisions to the ancient and early medieval shoreline, and a few new images for our linked Naples image galleries.

Several of these changes are in response to Paul Arthur's positive and thoughtful review of Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo's Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History in Speculum 88.1 (January 2013) and to update information just published in Ronald G. Musto's Medieval Naples: A Documentary History 400-1400.

A Documentary History 400-1400

We’re happy to announce the print publication of Ronald G. Musto’s Medieval Naples: A Documentary History, 400-1400 as the latest volume in Italica’s A Documentary History of Naples.

This is a revised and expanded version of the edition published online for the Kindle and iPad over a year ago. This edition includes new readings and additional sections edited by Eileen Gardiner on medieval Naples’ literature, hagiography, literate and book culture. 

A new Introduction offers a comprehensive survey of the periods covered in the historical texts, with a discussion of the historiography and of important research and interpretive issues. These include the material development of the medieval city from Late Antiquity through the end of the Angevin period, the condition and use of the available primary sources and archaeological evidence, with particular attention given to the wide variety of recent excavations and of archival materials, the question of the ruralization and recovery of its urban core through the little known Ducal period — with some discussion of the city’s changing population — the question of Naples’ importance as a commercial and political capital, its developing economic and material base, and the question of its relationship to its hinterland on the one hand and to broader Mediterranean contexts on the other. It also surveys the changes in Naples’ grid plan, its walls and fortifications, its port, and its commercial and residential development. It complements the discussions in Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo’s Medieval Naples: An Architectural a Urban History.

It totals 460 pages, contains 82 readings covering all aspects of Neapolitan urban life and culture from c.400 to c.1400, 74 figures, 60 thumbnail images keyed to a map of medieval Naples, a complete bibliography, index, and a key to external resources, including our Interactive Map of Medieval Naples, our online Bibliographies, and our online image galleries. The book is now available in paperback and the hardcover edition will be ready soon. A revised and expanded Kindle and iPad edition will follow shortly after that.

We’re happy to be back after a prolonged season of hard work on other projects. We return with some very good news: the first is that Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo’s Medieval Naples: An Architectural & Urban History has received a very good review in The Burlington Magazine. Written by Cordelia Warr, a leading expert in medieval Neapolitan art history, the review covers the content of the volume, its excellent style, its illustrations and its online components: including over 450 color images of the medieval city and its monuments.

Our second piece of good news is that the print edition of Ronald G. Musto’s Medieval Naples: A Documentary History 400–1400 is now in final page proofs. This is a revised and expanded version of the edition launched online in the Kindle and iPad over a year ago. This edition includes new sections edited by Eileen Gardiner on medieval Naples’ literature, hagiography, literate and book culture. It comes in at over 400 pages, contains 81 readings covering all aspects of Neapolitan urban life and culture from c.400 to c.1400, 74 figures, 60 thumbnail images keyed to a map of medieval Naples, a complete Bibliography, index, and a key to external resources, including our Interactive Map of Medieval Naples, our online bibliographies, and our online image galleries. The book should be available in hardcover and paperback in January 2013. A revised and expanded Kindle and iPad edition will follow shortly after that.