Background
Kohl, Benjamin Gibbs was born on October 26, 1938 in Middletown, Delaware, United States. Son of Victor Philip and Catherine B. (Carpenter) Kohl.
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RENAISSANCE HUMANISM 1300-1550: A Bibliography of Materials in English (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
(Book by Benjamin G. Kohl)
Book by Benjamin G. Kohl
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Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405
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The product of years of archival research, this magisterial account is the first major work on the Carrara of Padua in more than a century and the first detailed study of an early Italian signorial regime ever published. Benjamin G. Kohl begins by describing Padua's late medieval setting, exploring the geographic and institutional givens inherited by the early Carrara lords as they fought to maintain their city's independence. He then offers a detailed analysis of the Carrara's century-long relationship with their powerful neighbor, Venice -- sometimes protector and sometimes nemesis. Kohl shows how the Carrara, emboldened by new mid-century alliances with the Holy Roman Emporer and the King of Hungary, tried to carve out a large territorial state in northeast Italy, thereby directly challenging Venice's vital interests. In fighting for the city's survival, the Carrara lords revitalized the city's government and stabilized ties with other elite Paduan families to form a unified society. Yet in the end, Padua succumbed to Venice's overwhelming power. Kohl also examines the changing composition of the Carrara family relationships, the regime's household government, its economic and landed interests, investments in textiles and trade, and the development of its own mint and tax system. By providing a nuanced view of the growth of state power in the hands of a single dynasty, Kohl lays to rest the received notion of the lawless Renaissance despot. Enriched with illustrations from contemporary frescoes, architectural monuments, manuscripts, and maps, this important study will set the terms for all future discussion of the nature of the late medieval Italian dynastic state.
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Culture and Politics in Early Renaissance Padua (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 728)
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The essays collected here reflect the author's work over three decades on the history and cultural life of the early Renaissance in Italy, focusing upon the city of Padua. The first section opens with studies on the place of the humanist Petrarch in Paduan culture, then looks at the life, works and manuscript tradition of one of his principal followers, Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna. These are followed by articles on the art of Giusto de Menabuoi and the changing use of the term "studia humanitatis" in early Renaissance Italy. The second part, complementing the author's monograph on politics and society in Carrara Padua (1318-1405), seeks to illuminate the social composition and political values of the city's governing elite.
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The Records of the Venetian Senate on Disk, 1335-1400, for Windows (Latin Edition)
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This Digital Archive of the Records of the Venetian Senate for the fourteenth century offers a complete electronic edition of the previously printed Senate deliberations from the series Misti, registers 17-44 (1335-1400), and Secreta, registers Istria (1335), A (1345-48), B (1348-51), D (1376-77), E (1388-97). This database, comprising the Latin texts of 4385 records, provides ready access to this source material by giving for each record the register, folio and date of the original, with short title and page of the edition, a headnote in English summarizing content, and notation of other editions and relevant historical literature. The digital archive is searchable by any number of parameters: by fondo, register, date and range, by keywords and strings within the documents. A simple console of control buttons allows the user to sort the found sets by date, register, record or edition, and to view and print records on demand in an easily readable format.
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Benjamin Gibbs Kohl
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AB with honors, Bowdoin College, 1960. Master of Arts, University Delaware, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1968.
Career
Adjunct instructor, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1961-1962; instructor history, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1965-1966; instructor history, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1966-1968; assistant professor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1968-1974; associate professor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1974-1981; professor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, since 1981; department chairman history, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1979-1982, 88; department chairman history, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1993-1996; Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, since 1994. President American Friends of Warburg Institute, New York City, 1994-1996. Advisory board Renaissance Studies, since 1988.
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The Records of the Venetian Senate on Disk, 1335-1400, for Windows (Latin Edition)
(This Digital Archive of the Records of the Venetian Senat...)
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Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405
( The product of years of archival research, this magiste...)
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Culture and Politics in Early Renaissance Padua (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 728)
(The essays collected here reflect the author's work over ...)
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RENAISSANCE HUMANISM 1300-1550: A Bibliography of Materials in English (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
(Book by Benjamin G. Kohl)
- THE EARTHLY REPUBLIC: Italian Humanists on Government and Society
- Major Problems in the History of Italian Renaissance (Major Problems in European History) by Benjamin G. Kohl (1994-11-01)
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The Records of the Venetian Senate on Disk, 1335-1400, for Windows (Latin Edition)
Membership
Historian City of Poughkeepsie, 1971—1977. Secretary planning commission Betterton, Maryland, since 2005. Board visitors and governors Washington College, Chestertown, since 2006.
Fellow Royal History Society. Member American Association of University Professors (president chapter 1987-1989, 95-98), Medieval Academy American (life), Renaissance Society of America (life), American History Association (life), History Society Kent County (Chestertown, Maryland) (president since 2010).
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Married Judith Ann Cleek, January 2, 1961. Children: Benjamin Gibbs, Laura Ann Kohl Ball.
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Democrat
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1960
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1962
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1968
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Fulbright fellow, Padua, Italy, 1964-1965. American Academy fellow, Rome, 1970-1971. Delmas fellow, Venice, 1978, Mellon Foundation Emeritus fellow, 2006-2009.Fulbright fellow, Padua, Italy, 1964-1965. American Academy fellow, Rome, 1970-1971. Delmas fellow, Venice, 1978, Mellon Foundation Emeritus fellow, 2006-2009.