City States In Classical Antiquity And Medieval Italy
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City States In Classical Antiquity And Medieval Italy
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Author : Anthony Molho
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
City States In Classical Antiquity And Medieval Italy written by Anthony Molho and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
This comprehensive yet suggestive book offers innovative answers to familiar questions, as in the articles of David Whitehead and Erich Gruen on the nature and power of the citizen body. City-States also breaks new ground in its persuasive documentation of the ways in which seemingly disparate disciplines may profitably share methods and data.
The Italian City State
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Author : Philip Jones
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1997-05-22
The Italian City State written by Philip Jones and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-22 with History categories.
Italy in the Middle Ages was unique among the countries of Europe in recreating, in a changed environment, the urban civilization of antiquity - the society, culture, and political formations of city-states. This book examines the origins and nature of this phenomenon from the fall of Rome to the eve of its consummation, the Italian Renaissance. The explanation is sought in Italy's singular `double existence' between two contrasted worlds - ancient and medieval. The ancient was characterised by the total predominance of the landed aristocracy in economy and society, enforced through a peculiar system of city states embracing town and country. The new medieval influences were marked by the separation of town, country and aristocracy, by the identification of towns with trade and a mercantile bourgeoisie, and by commercial and proto-industrial revolution. Italy shared in both worlds. It remained a land of cities and of an urbanized ruling class (except in the Norman South) and re-established territorial city states; but the staes were very different from those of antiquity, the city leaders in the commercial revolution, and Italy itself seen as a nation of shopkeepers, birthplace of capitalism. In this fascinating and ground-breaking study, Philip Jones traces in detail the tension and interaction between the two traditions, civic and patrician, mercantile and bourgeois, through all phases of Italian life to their culmination in two rival regimes of communes and despots.
Medieval Lucca
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Author : M. E. Bratchel
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Medieval Lucca written by M. E. Bratchel and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with History categories.
Although there are many books in English on the city and state of Lucca, this is the first scholarly study to cover the history of the entire region from classical antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. At one level, it is an archive-based study of a highly distinctive political community; at another, it is designed as a contribution to current discussions on power-structures, the history of the state, and the differences between city-states and the new territorial states that were emerging in Italy by the fourteenth century. There is a rare consensus among historians on the characteristic features of the Italian city-state: essentially the centralization of economic, political, and juridical power on a single city and in a single ruling class. Thus defined, Lucca retained the image of an old-fashioned, old-style city-republic right through until the loss of political independence in 1799. No consensus exists with regard to the defining qualities of the Renaissance state. Was it centralized or de-centralized; intrusive or non-interventionist? The new regional states were all these things. And the comparison with Lucca is complicated and nuanced as a result. Lucca ruled over a relatively large city territory, in part a legacy from classical antiquity. Lucca was distinctive in the pervasive power exercised over its territory (largely a legacy of the region's political history in the early and central middle ages). In consequence, the Lucchese state showed a marked continuity in its political organization, and precociousness in its administrative structures. The qualifications relate to practicalities and resources. The coercive powers and bureaucratic aspirations of any medieval state were distinctly limited, whilst Lucca's capacity for independent action was increasingly circumscribed by the proximity (and territorial enclaves) of more powerful and predatory neighbours.
Urban Legends
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Author : Carrie E. Benes
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2011
Urban Legends written by Carrie E. Benes and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
"Explores the role of the classical past in the construction of urban identity in late medieval Italy. Focuses on the appropriation of classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate the regimes of various Italian city-states"--Provided by publisher.
The Italian City State
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Author : Philip James Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Italian City State written by Philip James Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with City-states categories.
Italy in the Middle Ages was unique among the countries of Europe in recreating the urban civilization of antiquity - the society, culture, & political formation of city-states. This book examines the origins & nature of this phenomenon.
Cities Of Ancient Greece And Italy
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Author : John Bryan Ward-Perkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Cities Of Ancient Greece And Italy written by John Bryan Ward-Perkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Architecture, Ancient categories.
The Italian City Republics
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Author : Daniel Philip Waley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
The Italian City Republics written by Daniel Philip Waley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with History categories.
Daniel Waley and Trevor Dean illustrate how, from the eleventh century onwards, many dozens of Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican self-government. Focusing on the typical medium-sized towns rather than the better-known cities, the authors draw on a rich variety of contemporary material (both documentary and literary) to portray the world of the communes, illustrating the patriotism and public spirit as well as the equally characteristic factional strife which was to tear them apart. Discussion of the artistic and social lives of the inhabitants shows how these towns were the seed-bed of the cultural achievements of the early Renaissance. In this fourth edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the book’s treatment of religion, women, housing, architecture and art, to take account of recent trends in the abundant historiography of these topics. A new selection of illuminating images has been included, and the bibliography brought up to date. Both students and the general reader interested in Italian history, literature and art will find this accessible book a rewarding and fascinating read.
The Ancient City
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Author : Arjan Zuiderhoek
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Ancient City written by Arjan Zuiderhoek and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.
Republican Realism In Renaissance Florence
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Author : Athanasios Moulakis
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1998
Republican Realism In Renaissance Florence written by Athanasios Moulakis and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
In this exciting book, Athanasios Moulakis makes available, for the first time in English, the important essay How to Bring Order to Popular Government, by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. In addition to his valuable and lucid translation of the essay, Moulakis provides an engaging analysis of this important work. He shows that, far from representing a revival of ancient republicanism, the long maturation of Florentine constitutional thought_brought to lucid expression by Guicciardini_points to a distinctly modern idea of the republican state. Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence is a unique and important book which will be of great value to historians and political theorists alike.
Polis Politics
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Author : Pernille Flensted-Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2000
Polis Politics written by Pernille Flensted-Jensen and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.