History

Coverage by subjects

The monograph collection is divided into the following sections: General history, Medieval History, Modern history, Contemporary history.

The main topics explored by the collection are: Historical philosophy and methodology, Historiography, Universal history and global phenomena, History of international and supranational relations, individual histories of nations, territories and cities, History of religions and of the Catholic church, History of Law, History of political, economic and social doctrines, Cultural history, History of custume, biographies, Byzantine history, Medieval Islamic history, History of the Carolingian and Germanic Empire, History of geographic explorations and discoveries, Colonial history, Medieval and industrial archaeology, History of workers' and trade union movements, History of the world wars, History of the twentieth-century movements of social unrest (feminist, non- violent and student movements). The classes of Geography, Chronology, Numismatics and Heraldry also belong to the section of History.

Authors' libraries relevant to History and the main topics represented

Delio Cantimori for the history of the Catholic church and of the political-religious Utopias and movements in the modern age, for twentieth-century political history, for the history of Marxism.
Ettore Passerin d'Entrèves for the history of Jansenism, for theological modernism, for the Risorgimento.
Arturo Codignola for the history of the Risorgimento.
Onofrio Nicastro for the political and philosophical history of seventeenth-century England and of eighteenth-century France.
Adriano Prosperi for the history of religion in the modern age, in particular the history of ecclesiastical institutions, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition, the relationship between religious life and social and cultural life.
Michele Luzzati-Francesca Maria Laganà for Hebraic, medieval and Byzantine history.
Marco Minerbi for the cultural and political history of France in the Age of Enlightenment and of the French Revolution.

Periodicals

Periodical literature enhances the resources available for this field of study; the periodicals department offers both a print collection available in open stacks and a digital collection of e-journals.

Location

The open-shelf monograph collection is located in Pisa, on the ground floor of Palazzo della Carovana, at the Orologio-Carovana site. 

For the location of the authors’ libraries, please refer to the dedicated entry in the section Personal collections and Authors’ libraries.

The History journals are part of the Humanities journals section, housed at the Orologio-Carovana site (Palazzo della Carovana, ground floor and 1st floor). 

New acquisitions

The list of new acquisitions is published in the SEARCH catalogue and gives an account of the titles acquired in the last 2 months.

Databases

History | Ancient history | Medieval history | Modern history | Contemporary history