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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461581903321

Titolo

City and countryside in late medieval and Renaissance Italy : essays presented to Philip Jones / / edited by Trevor Dean and Chris Wickham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ronceverte : , : Hambledon Press, , 1990

ISBN

1-4725-9875-X

1-283-20159-3

9786613201591

0-8264-2426-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

945

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Italy - History

City-states - Italy - History

Renaissance - Italy

Electronic books.

Italy Civilization 1268-1559

Italy Civilization 476-1268

Italy Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Spine title: City and countryside in late medieval & Renaissance Italy.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xiii]-xv).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Philip Jones: An Appreciation; Illustrations; Philip Jones; Bibliography of Philip Jones; List of Contributors; 1 Rural Communes and the City of Lucca at the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century; 2 Intellectuals and Culture in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Italy; 3 The Conversion of St Francis; 4 A Blood-Feud with a Happy Ending: Siena, 1285-1304; 5 A Monastic Clientele? The Abbey of Settimo, its Neighbours and its Tenants (Tuscany, 1280-1340); 6 Civic Religion and the Countryside in Late Medieval Italy; 7 'Honour' and 'Profit': Landed Property and Trade in Medieval Siena

8 Governments and Schools in Late Medieval Italy9 'Una Citta Fatticosa': Dominican Preaching and the Defence of the Republic in Late Medieval Siena; 10 The Crown and the Economy under Ferrante I of Naples (1485-94); 11 Crossing the Romagnol Appennines in the Renaissance; Routes Across the Romagnol Appennines in the Renaissance; 12 City,



Court and Contado in Camerino, c. 1500; 13 Commune and Despot: The Commune of Ferrara under Este Rule, 1300-1450; List of Subscribers

Sommario/riassunto

"This book brings together challenging new essays from some of the leaders in Italian scholarship in three countries, to show the range of  work that is currently being done not only on Florence but also on Naples, Ferrara and Lucca and on the relationship between cities and countryside."--Bloomsbury Publishing.