Valentina Costantini
Research Associate at @UofGlasgow ERC #ArtandInequality, Medievalist with a passion for social history, archives, writing, travelling & exploring the outdoors
- Taking #ArtandInequality at @khiflorenz.bsky.social today for a day of reading and writing - drafting my paper on #objects #circularecnomy #reuse in 14thc Florence and #hospital of Santa Maria Nuova (second paper of 2026!) @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalsky #beautifullibraries
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- Reposted by Valentina Costantini"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
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- More from #flooded registers of the Florentine, now vanished convent of San Pier Maggiore - #staytuned for a new coming publication on #pigsbreeding and #meatconsumption in Florence using these amazing data! Another project grew out of #ArtandInequality @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalsky
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- Have a look at the meetings planned in Milan for 2026. For those interested in #objects, #circulareconomy and #medievalhospital just #staytuned! In April, with Serena Galasso we present a truly fascinating research project linked to #ArtandInequality! #medievalsky @artandinequality.bsky.social
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- This is how US government teaches its own citizens to behave from its pinnacle of #democracy and #civilisation
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- Flooded Thursday - dragging #ArtandIneqaulity into a beautiful dive through the faded, wrinkled account books of the Florentine convent of #SanPierMaggiore, heavily scarred by the #flood of 1966 @artandinequality.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk #medievalsky
- Why starting 2026 with an #homicide? ⬇️ Have a read at our latest blog @artandinequality.bsky.social to find out about a mysterious #murder, an #inventory and forthcoming #projects and #publications for #ArtandInequality @glasgow.ac.uk #medievalsky ➡️ link: www.artandinequality.com/homicide-wit...
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- Starting the week and the Winter Season surrounded by Beauty and Art - so lucky to be part of @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalsky
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- Today #ArtandInequality will be presenting a first draft of our paper on #executivedoments #materialculture #devotion and #socialhistory for the #QSRM project - hybrid seminar Link ⬇️ www.fscire.it/index.php/sc... #medievalsky @artandinequality.bsky.social
- Mining more men and women in the beautiful books of #SantaMariaNuova - a still-operating #medieval hospital #medievalsky
- Today @artandinequality.bsky.social is diving into thousands of names of 14th c. men and women - a pure joy and a gold mine for #socialhistory #culturalhistory #materialculture #hospitalhistory #demography #Florentinehistory and so much more! #artandinequality #medievalsky
- #ArtandInequality will have a full morning at the National Library in Florence today 📚…but #cappuccino first ☕️ @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalsky
- While waiting to release my new post on 1380s #homicide with list, I am re-posting my blog on 15thc. Brabantine baker and globetrotter who may have had my same #migrantcurse, loving and regretting every place he lived in 😅 #ArtandInequality project @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalsky
- @genderandhistory.bsky.social has moved to the University of Edinburgh
- We are delighted to announce that Gender & History now has a new home at the University of Edinburgh. With thanks to the Sheffield team who did a stellar job for the last five years. hca.ed.ac.uk/gender-histo... #Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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- Starting the week with the a high dose of medieval #inventories of mobile goods - a goldmine of #everydaylife from 800 years ago for our #ArtandInequality project @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalsky
- Lovely miniature from an early XV c. #inventorybook ... #staytuned because soon there will be... an #homicide with #inventory from 1380s! @artandinequality.bsky.social goes beyond testaments! @uofglasgow.bsky.social #medievalsky
- 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
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- Why collecting so many data from the past? Have a read at #artandinequality #Halloween weekend post by our PI Samuel Cohn about his last research trip to #florence #historyofart #medievalsky @artandinequality.bsky.social
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- 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
- #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! @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalsky
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- taking @artandinequality.bsky.social at @khiflorenz.bsky.social today - the beauty of this room is all for me (for now!) #arthistory #beautifullibraries #medievalsky
- 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
- 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
- Being an expat myself for many years, Augustinus' story talked to me! Click here ⬇️ to read more about this Brabantin baker and globetrotter from @artandinequality.bsky.social 🧳🧭🚶♀️🌎 #ArtandInequality #medievaltravels #foreigners #expatlife #artisans #memory #arthisory #flanders #tuscany
- 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
- @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
- 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
- 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!
- ✈️ 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 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
- While the @artandinequality.bsky.social project works on its proposal for #IMC2026 our PI Prof Samuel Cohn gets the front page here ⬇️
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- Who wants to meet 15th c. Concima? My new post for @artandinequality.bsky.social is about defeating time and death by keeping one’s memory alive. Concima’s portrait is a unique example of this last for remembrance. Read about her here ⬇️ #ArtandInequality #remembrance ##women #medievaltestaments
- Back to the Future while digging the archives for the #ArtandInequality project @artandinequality.bsky.social #medievalbutchers #florencestatearchives #foodhistory #materialculture
- 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
- To finish off a hard week of personal disasters, meetings and panels organisations, proof reading…this is what I needed tonight 🌙 🌅 🌊
- Hot off the press! Can’t wait to read it ⬇️ Interesting estays also for #ArtandInequaliry project @artandinequality.bsky.social
- Reposted by Valentina Costantini♻️ Waste not, want not! Discover more about how parchments were reused and recycled in the 14th century, plus some of our discoveries in the archives, here: www.artandinequality.com/waste-and-re... #history #materialculture #waste #reuse #medievalbindings #medievalhistory #archives
- Reposted by Valentina Costantini📜All the documents our project looks at have one thing in common - they were drawn up by a notary. 🪶Each medieval notary used a distinctive personal mark. Find out more here: www.artandinequality.com/whats-your-s... #medievalhistory #arthistory #nonelite #history #testaments #notary
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- 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
- 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
- First days of the #piedibus project in Florence - groups of kids and supervising adults will walk together to school every morning following arranged routes and scheduled stops along the way. Thanks to all parents, volunteers, neighbourhoods and #legambiente
- Interesting post on documenting patrons and surviving objects. Very first blog post on our new website. More soon - stay tuned #ArtInequal #medievalhistory #archives #materialculture #socialhistory #arthistory #devotion
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