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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795671303321

Autore

Sposato Peter

Titolo

Forged in the shadow of Mars : chivalry and violence in late medieval Florence / / Peter W. Sposato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-5017-6191-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Disciplina

945.03088355

Soggetti

Chivalry - Italy - Florence - History - To 1500

Knights and knighthood - Italy - History

Florence (Italy) History To 1421

Florence (Italy) Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chivalry and Honor Violence -- Chivalry and Social Violence -- Brunetto Latini's Il Tesoretto : A Case Study in Chivalric Reform -- Chivalric Identity and the Profession of Arms -- Epilogue : The Chivalric Life of Buonaccorso Pitti (1354-1432).

Sommario/riassunto

"Challenges the current understanding of elite culture in late medieval Florence by arguing that chivalric ideology, traditionally considered by scholars to be foreign to the social and cultural landscape of late medieval Italian cities, played a major role in shaping the mentality and behavior of many Florentine elites, especially members of ancient lineages. This book offers the first examination of chivalric culture and its practitioners, who played an important but understudied role in the transformation of Florence into the dominant territorial state in north-central Italy"--