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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789674203321
• 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; 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.