Italy Before Italy

Author : Katherine McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429628061

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Italy Before Rome by Katherine McDonald Pdf

This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy, including its cultures, politics, trade, languages, writing systems, religious rituals, magical practices, and conflicts. This book allows readers to access diverse sources relating to the history and cultures of pre-Roman Italy. It gathers and translates sources from both Greek and Latin literature and ancient inscriptions in multiple languages and gives commentary to highlight areas of particular interest. The thematic organisation of this sourcebook helps readers to make connections across languages and communities, and showcases the interconnectedness of ancient Italy. This book includes maps, a timeline, and guides to further reading, making it accessible to students and other readers who are new to this subject. Italy Before Rome is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, including those who have not studied the ancient world before. It is also intended to be useful to researchers approaching this material for the first time, and to university and schoolteachers looking for an overview of early Italian sources.

Author : Marco Soresina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351345620

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Italy Before Italy by Marco Soresina Pdf

Italian unification is one of the pivotal events in European history but the period leading up to Risorgimento has often been analysed in less detail. This book focuses on the history of the Italian states between 1815 and 1860 focusing on state institutions, international relations, economic and fiscal policies, living conditions and culture.

Author : David Randall-MacIver
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787208421

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Italy Before the Romans by David Randall-MacIver Pdf

First published in 1928, this book by archaeologist and author David Randall-MacIver provides a detailed description of Italy and its chief peoples before it was conquered by the Romans in 509 B.C. Randall-MacIver constructs his study through reference to the “great mass of Archaeological discoveries made in Italy during the last seventy years” (i.e. 1860’s-1920’s). A wonderful addition to your ancient history collection. Richly illustrated throughout. “Historians have deliberately kept silence as to all Italian peoples except the Roman. But it is obvious that the view which they give is incomplete. The Romans were not a highly civilized people in the early days of the Republic. Italy was completely civilized before its conquest by Rome. Archaeology can give a picture of the life of Italian peoples scarcely known to history.”—Introduction

Author : Carolynn E. Roncaglia
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421425191

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Northern Italy in the Roman World by Carolynn E. Roncaglia Pdf

"Using a wide range of epigraphic, archaeological, numismatic, and literary evidence, Northern Italy in the Roman World traces the evolution of Northern Italy from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity and examines how the Roman state dramatically changed the region. This study on a much-neglected part of the Roman world uses northern Italy as a case study for examining the impact of the Roman empire on areas that it controlled. The book finds that while levels of Roman intervention varied considerably over time, the Roman state greatly influenced both local and transregional developments. This influence is shown to be pervasive and reflected in material ranging from loom weights to social networks and from ritual horse burials to the careers of writers"--

Author : Barbara M. Kreutz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205435

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Before the Normans by Barbara M. Kreutz Pdf

Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquests. This was a pan-Meditteranean society, where the Roman past and Lombard-Germanic culture met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, creating a rich and unusual mix.

Author : Teaching Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1598033492

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The Italians Before Italy by Teaching Company Pdf

"This course discusses the political, economic, and social worlds of the Italian city-states in the period from the Middle Ages to the loss of their autonomy in the later 16th century. This course includes some references to the status of certain Italian cities in antiquity and brief mention of their subsequent development from 1559 until the Risorgimento, the movement of Italian national unification in the 19th century. The focus is on the development of the institutions and structures that gave each independent state its essential character"--P. 1 of text.

Author : Christopher Duggan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521408482

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A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan Pdf

A concise history of Italy from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the present day.

Author : Katherine McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429629709

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Italy Before Rome by Katherine McDonald Pdf

This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy, including its cultures, politics, trade, languages, writing systems, religious rituals, magical practices, and conflicts. This book allows readers to access diverse sources relating to the history and cultures of pre-Roman Italy. It gathers and translates sources from both Greek and Latin literature and ancient inscriptions in multiple languages and gives commentary to highlight areas of particular interest. The thematic organisation of this sourcebook helps readers to make connections across languages and communities, and showcases the interconnectedness of ancient Italy. This book includes maps, a timeline, and guides to further reading, making it accessible to students and other readers who are new to this subject. Italy Before Rome is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, including those who have not studied the ancient world before. It is also intended to be useful to researchers approaching this material for the first time, and to university and schoolteachers looking for an overview of early Italian sources.

Author : Kenneth Bartlett
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624668203

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The Renaissance in Italy by Kenneth Bartlett Pdf

The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period—Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella d'Este, and so many others—engender a kind of wonder. How could so many geniuses or exceptional characters be produced by one small territory near the extreme south of Europe at a moment when much of the rest of the continent still labored under the restrictions of the Middle Ages? How did so many of the driving principles behind Western civilization emerge during this period—and how were they defined and developed? And why is it that geniuses such as Leonardo, Raphael, Petrarch, Brunelleschi, Bramante, and Palladio all sustain their towering authority to this day? To answer these questions, Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals—the privileged, educated, influential elites—who created a rarefied world of power, money, and sophisticated talent in which individual curiosity and skill were prized above all else. The result is a dynamic, highly readable, copiously illustrated history of the Renaissance in Italy—and of the artists that gave birth to some of the most enduring ideas and artifacts of Western civilization.

Author : Ann Cynthia Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032702206

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Ancient Italy Before the Romans by Ann Cynthia Brown Pdf

Author : Fernand Braudel
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609455354

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Out of Italy by Fernand Braudel Pdf

From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650. In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political dominance is utterly astonishing and unique in world history. Viewing the Italy?the many Italies?of that time through the lens of today allows us to gather a fragmented, multi-faceted, and seemingly contradictory history into a single unifying narrative that speaks to our current reality as much as it does to a specific historical period. This is what the acclaimed French historian, Fernand Braudel, achieves here. He brings to life the two extraordinary centuries that span the Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque and analyzes the complex interaction between art, science, politics, and commerce during Italy’s extraordinary cultural flowering.

Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Italy
ISBN : 0472080997

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Early Medieval Italy by Chris Wickham Pdf

Discusses the social and economic development of Italy

Author : Elizabeth Horodowich,Lia Markey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107122871

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The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 by Elizabeth Horodowich,Lia Markey Pdf

This volume considers Italy's history and examines how Italians became fascinated with the New World in the early modern period.

Author : Bill Emmott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300199482

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Good Italy, Bad Italy by Bill Emmott Pdf

Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to the future of the Euro, indeed to the European Union as a whole. Italy's political system is shorn of credibility as it struggles to deal with huge public debts and anemic levels of economic growth. Young people are emigrating in droves, frustrated at the lack of opportunity, while older people stubbornly cling to their rights and privileges, fearful of an uncertain future. In this lively, up-to-the-minute book, Bill Emmott explains how Italy sank to this low point, how Italians feel about it, and what can be done to return the country to more prosperous and more democratic times. With the aid of numerous personal interviews, Emmott analyzes "Bad Italy"—the land of disgraced Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an inadequate justice system, an economy dominated by special interests and continuing corruption—against its contrasting foil "Good Italy," the home of enthusiastic entrepreneurs, truth-seeking journalists, and countless citizens determined to end mafia domination for good.

Author : Thomas J. MacMaster,Nicholas S.M. Matheou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351609036

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Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean by Thomas J. MacMaster,Nicholas S.M. Matheou Pdf

Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean addresses the understudied topic of the Italian peninsula’s relationship to the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, across the early and central Middle Ages. The East Roman world, commonly known by the ahistorical term "Byzantium", is generally imagined as an Eastern Mediterranean empire, with Italy part of the medieval "West". Across 18 individually authored chapters, an introduction and conclusion, this volume makes a different case: for an East Roman world of which Italy forms a crucial part, and an Italian peninsula which is inextricably connected to—and, indeed, includes—regions ruled from Constantinople. Celebrating a scholar whose work has led this field over several decades, Thomas S. Brown, the chapters focus on the general themes of empire, cities and elites, and explore these from the angles of sources and historiography, archaeology, social, political and economic history, and more besides. With contributions from established and early career scholars, elucidating particular issues of scholarship as well as general historical developments, the volume provides both immediate contributions and opens space for a new generation of readers and scholars to a growing field.