Dr. Carolyn James
Cassamarca - Unione Latini nel Mondo Lecture
- Study Abroad Convenor
- Level 3 culture coordinator
- ITA2240/3240 Renaissance Italy
Research interests
- Italian Renaissance social and cultural history, especially the northern courts
- Medieval and Renaissance literary texts
- History of letter writing in the Medieval and Renaissance
- Renaissance Mantua
- Datini correspondence from the Archivio di Stato, Prato
Qualifications
- MA (University of Melbourne)
- PhD (University of Melbourne)
- Diploma of Education (University of Melbourne)
- BA (History Hons)(Monash University)
Winner of the ARC Discovery Grant 2006 round: Dynastic Marriage, Courtly Politics and the State in Renaissance Italy.
Contact Details
Room: S608, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus
Email: Carolyn.James@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: 9905 3267
Fax: 9905 5437
Inquiries:
9905 5223 / 9905 2281
Publications
Monographs
- 2002 The Letters of Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti (1481-1510). Florence: L.S Olschki and the University of Western Australia.
- 1996 Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti. A Literary Career. Florence: L.S. Olschki.
Book Chapters
- 2007 "Machiavelli in Skirts. Isabella d’Este and Politics”, in Virtue,Liberty and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women 1400-1800, ed. K. Green and J. Broad, Springer Press.
- 2005 "An insatiable appetite for news: Isabella d'Este and a Bolognese correspondent", in Religious Rituals, Images, and Words: the Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. F.W. Kent and C. Zika, Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 375-388.
Articles in Refereed Journals
- 2008 "Friendship and Dynastic Marriage in Renaissance Italy" Literature and History,17.1.
- 1997 "The Palazzo Bentivoglio in 1487", Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XLI, pp.188-196.
Forthcoming 2008
- "A Woman’s Path to Literacy. The Letters of Margherita Datini (1384-1410)" in Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and early Modern Europe, ed. M. Cassidy-Welch and P. Sherlock, Brepols, Turnhout.
- With F.W Kent, chapter on the Renaissance in Friendship: A History, ed. B.Caine, Equinox Publishing, London.
- With F.W Kent, “Margherita Cantelmo and Agostino Strozzi: Friendship’s Gifts and a Portrait Medal by Costanzo da Ferrara”, I Tatti Studies. Essays in the Renaissance, 12.
Forthcoming 2009
- “The Travels of Isabella d’Este Marchioness of Mantua” Studies in Travel Writing, ed. Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt, 13:3.
In Preparation
- With Antonio Pagliaro The Letters of Margherita Datini (1384-1410) (an annotated translation with critical introduction of the 250 letters of Margherita Datini) to be published in the series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
Translation
- 2002 "Per la tua Margherita. Lettere di una donna del '300 al marito mercante. Margherita Datini a Francesca di Marco 1384-1401", CD Rom, Prato: State Archive of Prato.