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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154576703321

Titolo

Communes and despots in medieval and Renaissance Italy / / edited by John E. Law and Bernadette Paton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-95035-5

1-315-25987-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Altri autori (Persone)

LawJohn E (John Easton)

PatonBernadette

Disciplina

945/.04

Soggetti

City-states - Italy - History - To 1500

Despotismy - Italy - History - To 1500

Italy Politics and government 1268-1559

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Communes and despots -- pt. II. Power and restraint -- pt. III. Political thought : theory and practice -- pt. IV. Communes and despots : some case studies -- pt. V. The case of the Medici -- pt. VI. Culture, art, and patronage.

Sommario/riassunto

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.