The Italian City Republics,9781405859004

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The Italian City Republics

by Waley, Daniel; Dean, Trevor

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4th

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9781405859004

ISBN10:

1405859008

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/7/2010

Publisher(s):

Pearson

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Summary

Long-awaited new edition of this classic text brings the scholarship completely up-to-date.The long-awaited fourth edition of this book contains: Fully up-to-date scholarship, taking into account the research of the last 20 years, including a vastly expanded section on the role of women, barely touched in the last edition, and a completely updated bibliography of recent sources and research. A masterful understanding of medieval life in Italy Primary source material and illustrations

Author Biography

Trevor Dean is Professor of Medieval History at Roehampton University.

Introduction

1 The legacy of power

Economic changes

The nascent commune

2 The population

Status and occupation

Growth of the town

New categories and class feeling

3 Government

Origins of the commune

Institutions

The podestà

Other officials

Administration

Church and state

The presuppositions of government

Citizenship

4 Town and country

The contado

Administration of the contado

Immigration from the contado

Tenurial change in the countryside

The liberation of the serfs

The feudal nobility

5 External relations

The role of Empire and Papacy

The conduct of diplomacy

Military organization

Patriotism

6 Civic spirit and the visual arts

Palaces and piazzas

Walls

Fountains

Church-building

Town-planning

Painting the city

7 Internal divisions

Nobles and magnates

The Popolo

Other private city organizations

Guelfs and Ghibellines

The ideal of concord

8 The failure of the republics

Feudal power

The triumph of the Signoria

9 The historiography of the City-Republics

Notes and references

Bibliography

Historical Gazetteer

Index