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Author : Francesco Salvestrini
Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 : 8884533899
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (845 download)
Download or read book L'Italia alla fine del Medioevo written by Francesco Salvestrini and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Gamberini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192557599
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Clash of Legitimacies written by Andrea Gamberini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clash of Legitimacies makes an innovative contribution to the history of the state-building process in late medieval Lombardy (during the 13th to 15th centuries), by illuminating myriad conflicts attending the legitimacy of power and authority at different levels of society. Through the analysis of the rhetorical forms and linguistic repertoires deployed by the many protagonists (not only the prince, but also the cities, communities, peasants, and political factions) to express their own ideals of shared political life, this volume reveals the depth of the conflicts in which opposing political actors were not only inspired by competing material interests - as in the traditional interpretation to be found in previous historiography - but also often were guided by differing concepts of authority. From this comes a largely new image of the late medieval and early Renaissance state, one without a monopoly of force - as has been shown in many studies since the 1970s - and one that did not even have the monopoly of legitimacy. The limitations of attempts by governors to present the political principles that inspired their acts as shared and universally recognized are revealed by a historical analysis firmly intent on investigating the existence, in particular territorial or social ambits, of other political cultures which based obedience to authority on different, and frequently original, ideals.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004512713
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Pisa written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises a multidisciplinary study of Pisa’s socio-economic, cultural, and political history, art history, and archaeology at the time of the city’s greatest fame and prosperity during the transformative period of the Middle Ages.
Author : Lester Little
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101777
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Indispensable immigrants written by Lester Little and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual sources. In this first-ever reconstruction of the forgotten metier of wine porter, topography plays a key role in forming the labour market; in the scramble to distinguish professionals from manual labourers the term artist gets divorced from lowly artisan, and wretched diet is invoked to explain why workers are so unintelligent; the wine porters make one of their own their patron saint in thirteenth-century Cremona and other interest groups scheme successfully to get him canonised in Rome five centuries later; and when enlightened despots abolish the guilds, the wine porters’ trade fades away just as the candles on their patron’s altars sputter and die out.
Author : William Caferro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108613063
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Petrarch's War written by William Caferro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revisionist account of the economic, literary and social history of Florence in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death connects warfare with the plague narrative. Organised around Petrarch's 'war' against the Ubaldini clan of 1349–1350, which formed the prelude to his meeting and friendship with Boccaccio, William Caferro's work examines the institutional and economic effects of the war, alongside literary and historical patterns. Caferro pays close attention to the meaning of wages in context, including those of soldiers, thereby revising our understanding of wage data in the distant past and highlighting the consequences of a constricted workforce that resulted in the use of cooks and servants on important embassies. Drawing on rigorous archival research, this book will stimulate discussion among academics and offers a new contribution to our understanding of Renaissance Florence. It stresses the importance of short-termism and contradiction as subjects of historical inquiry.
Author : Samuel K. Cohn, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426761
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Creating the Florentine State written by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the political history of the Renaissance: its analysis of government is embedded in the context of geography and social conflict. Instead of the usual institutional history, it examines the Florentine state from the mountainous periphery - a periphery both of geography and class - where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. Yet, far from being acted upon, Florence's highlanders were instrumental in changing the attitudes of the Florentine ruling class: the city began to see its own self-interest as intertwined with that of its region and the welfare of its rural subjects at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Contemporaries either remained silent or purposely obscured the reasons for this change, which rested on widespread and successful peasant uprisings across the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state, hitherto unrecorded by historians.
Author : Christine Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108962394
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Reason and Experience in Renaissance Italy written by Christine Shaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by political principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in practice. This wide-ranging comparative survey examines these political principles, as expressed in sources such as council debates, preambles to legislation and official correspondence, in the mid-fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth century Italy. Focusing especially on the five republics - Florence, Venice, Genoa, Siena and Lucca - the book also considers princes and signori, and the principles underlying relations between states, particularly relations between major and minor powers. Many of the ideas articulated by those confronting practical political problems ranged beyond the questions dealt with in formal treatises of political thought and philosophy. Drawing on extensive archival research, Christine Shaw explores the relationship between 'reason and experience' in the conduct of political affairs in Renaissance Italy, and the gap between theory and practice.
Author : Dr Daniel R Curtis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472420063
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements written by Dr Daniel R Curtis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: exogenous environmental hazards such as earthquakes or plagues, economic or political hazards from ‘outside’ such as warfare or expropriation of property, or hazards of their own-making such as soil erosion or subsistence crises. How then can we explain why some societies were able to overcome or negate these problems, while other societies proved susceptible to failure, as settlements contracted, stagnated, were abandoned, or even disappeared entirely? This book has been stimulated by the questions and hypotheses put forward by a recent ‘disaster studies’ literature - in particular, by placing the intrinsic arrangement of societies at the forefront of the explanatory framework. Essentially it is suggested that the resilience or vulnerability of habitation has less to do with exogenous crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses which dictate: (a) the extent of destruction caused by crises and the capacity for society to protect itself; and (b) the capacity to create a sufficient recovery. By empirically testing the explanatory framework on a number of societies between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century in England, the Low Countries, and Italy, it is ultimately argued in this book that rather than the protective functions of the state or the market, or the implementation of technological innovation or capital investment, the most resilient human habitations in the pre-industrial period were those than displayed an equitable distribution of property and a well-balanced distribution of power between social interest groups. Equitable distributions of power and property were the underlying conditions in pre-industrial societies that allowed 'favourable' institutions to emerge with high rates of participation down the social hierarchy, giving people the freedom and room to choose their own fate - not necessarily reliant on one coping strategy but with the capacity to combine many different ones in search of optimum resilience.
Author : Dirk Sacré
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058677508
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Syntagmatia written by Dirk Sacré and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume has been dedicated to two distinguished scholars of Neo-Latin Studies on the occasion of their retirement after a long and fruitful academic career, one at the Université catholique Louvain-la-Neuve, the other at the internationally renowned Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae of Leuven University. Both the rich variety of subjects dealt with and the international diversity of the scholars authoring contributions reflect the wide interests of the celebrated Neo-Latinists, their international position, and the actual status of the discipline itself. Ranging from the Trecento to the 21st century, and embracing Latin writings from Italy, Hungary, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Poland, the New World, Spain, Scotland, Denmark and China, this volume is as rich and multifaceted as it is voluminous, for it not only offers studies on well-known figures such as Petrarch, Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Thomas More, Eobanus Hessus, Lipsius, Tycho Brahe, Jean de la Fontaine and Jacob Cats, but it also includes new contributions on Renaissance commentaries and editions of classical authors such as Homer, Seneca and Horace; on Neo-Latin novels, epistolography and Renaissance rhetoric; on Latin translations from the vernacular and invectives against Napoleon; on the teaching of Latin in the 19th century; and on the didactics of Neo-Latin nowadays.
Author : Nick Havely
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198882645
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Apennine Crossings written by Nick Havely and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Apennines are Italy' exclaimed The Examiner two centuries ago, yet this unique region and its striking literary and cultural connections are underappreciated in the English-speaking world. Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany links a twenty-first century journey in the mountains of Northern Italy to past writers, routes, and travellers. It follows the modern long-distance walking trail of the 'Great Apennine Excursion', whilst moving back and forth in time: from the Middle Ages to World War Two and from the journeys of pilgrims, merchants, and tourists to those of soldiers, partisans, and poets. Stories of past travellers in the region continually intersect with a contemporary account of a walk across the ridge of the Northern Apennines. Alongside Nick Havely's present-day narrator and traveller, the cast of characters includes major writers and poets, such as Dante, Montaigne, Goethe, Shelley, and Stendhal, together with a multitude of less well-known figures whose journeys, experiences, and responses cast new light on a landscape that is close to yet remote from the sites typically visited by modern travellers to Italy. Havely draws these earlier travellers' stories from a wide range of published and unpublished sources such as letters, journals, memoirs, poems, and interviews. Together, they illustrate several significant themes: the histories of mountain passes, remote lakes, and ancient sanctuaries; perceptions of the mountains; the social and religious culture of the Northern Apennines; the preoccupations of literary tourism; the impact of campaigns and conflict during World War Two; and the effects of depopulation and deforestation. The Apennine region features in its full literary, historical, and cultural richness. Included are twenty-six illustrations, with maps for the whole route and for the sections covered by each of the book's seven chapters.
Author : Eleni Sakellariou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900422405X
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages written by Eleni Sakellariou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of mainland southern Italy's domestic market in the late Middle Ages, this book discusses the interaction between population, the market, and the region's institutional framework, in the context of the impact of the late medieval 'crisis' on the European economy. Based on new or little-used documentary evidence, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach and combines economic history with elements of economic theory to reassess common knowledge on demographic and urbanization trends, the organization of the domestic market, the role of the state, and on actual patterns of agricultural production, industrial activity and commercial itineraries. The result is a fresh look at the late medieval economy of the kingdom of Naples, which, it seems now, is worth studying for its own merit.
Author : Fabrizio Nevola
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300126785
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Siena written by Fabrizio Nevola and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together social, political, economic and architectural history, this book explores the role of key patrons in Siena's urban projects, including Pope Pius II Piccolomini and his family, and the quasi-despot Pandolfo Petrucci.
Author : Christine Shaw
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047410629
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy written by Christine Shaw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the nature of popular government and oligarchy in towns and cities throughout Renaissance Italy, and of the reasons why broadly-based civic governments were losing ground.
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Publisher : All'Insegna del Giglio
ISBN 13 : 8892851845
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)
Download or read book ArcheoLogica Data, 3, 2023 written by and published by All'Insegna del Giglio. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ArcheoLogica Data wants to reach an Italian and international audience of scholars, professionals, students, and, more generally, early-career archaeologists, and it accepts contributions written both in Italian and English. ArcheoLogica Data proposes to indissolubly associate data and interpretation. It embraces that global idea of archaeological data that integrates all the discipline declinations without any thematic or chronological constraints. Data is at the centre, and around lies everything that can stem from it: interpretations, hypotheses, reconstructions, applications, theoretical and methodological reflections, critical ideas, constructive discussions.
Author : Anabel Thomas
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409426035
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Garrisoning the Borderlands of Medieval Siena written by Anabel Thomas and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close study of local demographies and topographies and primary source material in the form of tax returns and notarial records, this study considers the development of urban fabrics and patterns of piety, charity and patronage in Siena's southern contado during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. By extension, it also presents an analysis of the art and architecture of the region during this time.
Author : John E. Law
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351950355
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy written by John E. Law and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.
Author : M. E. Bratchel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199542902
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Medieval Lucca written by M. E. Bratchel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly study covering the history of both the city and the region of Lucca, from classical antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century
