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

• Autore: Sposato Peter
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 pages)
• Disciplina: 945.03088355
• Soggetto topico: Chivalry - Italy - Florence - History - To 1500; Knights and knighthood - Italy - History
• Soggetto geografico: Florence (Italy) History To 1421; Florence (Italy) Civilization
• Soggetto non controllato: honor violence, social violence, chivalric violence, elite culture in late medieval Florence, chivalric ideology, chivalry and knighthood, history of violence in medieval/Renaissance Italy
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Forged in the shadow of Mars
• ISBN: 1-5017-6191-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795671303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II