A Medieval Italian Commune

Author : William M. Bowsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520328556

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A Medieval Italian Commune by William M. Bowsky Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191590306

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The Italian City-State by Philip Jones Pdf

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.

Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691181141

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Sleepwalking Into a New World by Chris Wickham Pdf

A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian commune Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally alters our understanding of one of the most important political and cultural innovations of the medieval world. Chris Wickham provides richly textured portraits of three cities—Milan, Pisa, and Rome—and sets them against a vibrant backcloth of other towns. He argues that, in all but a few cases, the elites of these cities and towns developed one of the first nonmonarchical forms of government in medieval Europe, unaware that they were creating something altogether new. Wickham makes clear that the Italian city commune was by no means a democracy in the modern sense, but that it was so novel that outsiders did not know what to make of it. He describes how, as the old order unraveled, the communes emerged, governed by consular elites "chosen by the people," and subject to neither emperor nor king. They regularly fought each other, yet they grew organized and confident enough to ally together to defeat Frederick Barbarossa, the German emperor, at the Battle of Legnano in 1176. Sleepwalking into a New World reveals how the development of the autonomous city-state took place, which would in the end make possible the robust civic culture of the Renaissance.

Author : Daniel Philip Waley,Trevor Dean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317864479

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The Italian City Republics by Daniel Philip Waley,Trevor Dean Pdf

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.

Author : John E. Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351950350

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Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by John E. Law Pdf

Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

Author : Trevor Dean,Daniel Waley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000630169

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The Italian City-Republics by Trevor Dean,Daniel Waley Pdf

Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many 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. In this new edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the book’s treatment of women and gender, the early history of the communes and the lives of non-élites. 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 seedbed of the cultural achievements of the early Renaissance. The Bibliography has been updated to a list of Further Reading with the latest scholarship for students to continue their studies. Both students and the general reader interested in Italian history, literature and art will find this accessible book a rewarding and fascinating read.

Author : Philip James Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : City-states
ISBN : 1383011273

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The Italian City-state by Philip James Jones Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Rubin Blanshei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004182851

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Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna by Sarah Rubin Blanshei Pdf

Utilizing a uniquely rich collection of trial records and council meeting minutes from late medieval Bologna, this book offers the first study of summary justice and oligarchy in an Italian commune, demonstrating how new legal institutions arose in response to the increasingly exclusionary policies of the popolo government.

Author : Areli Marina
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271050706

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The Italian Piazza Transformed by Areli Marina Pdf

"Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748992503

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The Italian City-state by Philip Jones Pdf

Author : Gregory Roberts
Publisher : Premodern Crime and Punishment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law enforcement
ISBN : 946372530X

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Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326 by Gregory Roberts Pdf

Police are generally thought of as an invention of the modern state, yet policing in medieval Italy had much in common with modern law enforcement. Foreign soldiers - hired as such to ensure their impartiality in enforcing the statutes - patrolled the streets daily, patting down residents for prohibited weapons and raiding homes and taverns for illicit gambling, sometimes on the basis of concrete intelligence. 'Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326' is the first book to examine focus on how urban governments in medieval Italy one region policed their populations. Focusing mostly on numerous Bologna Bolognese records from the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Roberts demonstrates how police patrols compelled hundreds of residents to appear in court each year and functioned as a political tool to control violence and disorder. Using largely unexplored archival sources, he paints a vivid picture of how city residents experienced police power in everyday life, and challenges both popular and scholarly assumptions about the role of policing in medieval society.

Author : Osvaldo Cavallar,Julius Kirshner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487536343

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Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy by Osvaldo Cavallar,Julius Kirshner Pdf

Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy is an original collection of texts exemplifying medieval Italian jurisprudence, known as the ius commune. Translated for the first time into English, many of the texts exist only in early printed editions and manuscripts. Featuring commentaries by leading medieval civil law jurists, notably Azo Portius, Accursius, Albertus Gandinus, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis, this book covers a wide range of topics, including how to teach and study law, the production of legal texts, the ethical norms guiding practitioners, civil and criminal procedures, and family matters. The translations, together with context-setting introductions, highlight fundamental legal concepts and practices and the milieu in which jurists operated. They offer entry points for exploring perennial subjects such as the professionalization of lawyers, the tangled relationship between law and morality, the role of gender in the socio-legal order, and the extent to which the ius commune can be considered an autonomous system of law.

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521764742

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The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy by Ronald G. Witt Pdf

Traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.

Author : Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher : New York, Harper
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Communal living
ISBN : UOM:39015010431032

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Siena, the History of a Mediaeval Commune by Ferdinand Schevill Pdf

"TB1164.""Originally published in 1909." Bibliography: p. 423-426.

Author : Augustine Thompson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271046279

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Cities of God by Augustine Thompson Pdf

When religion is considered, the subjects are usually saints, heretics, theologians, and religious leaders, thereby ignoring the vast majority of those who lived in the communes. Drawing on many ecclesiastical and secular sources, this book aims to give a voice to the majority - orthodox lay people and those who ministered to them.