The Italian City State

Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Daniel Philip Waley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010583453

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The Italian City-republics by Daniel Philip Waley Pdf

Author : Tom Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199274604

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The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 by Tom Scott Pdf

In this, the first comprehensive study of city-states in medieval Europe, Tom Scott analyzes reasons for cities' aquisitions of territory and how they were governed. He argues that city-states did not wither after 1500, but survived by transformation and adaption.

Author : Maarten Prak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1107504155

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Citizens without Nations by Maarten Prak Pdf

Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the medieval and early modern world. Ranging from Europe and the American colonies to China and the Middle East, he reveals how the role of 'ordinary people' in urban politics has been systematically underestimated and how civic institutions such as neighbourhood associations, craft guilds, confraternities and civic militias helped shape local and state politics. By destroying this local form of citizenship, the French Revolution initially made Europe less, rather than more democratic. Understanding citizenship's longer-term history allows us to change the way we conceive of its future, rethink what it is that makes some societies more successful than others, and whether there are fundamental differences between European and non-European societies.

Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307830937

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Power And Imagination by Lauro Martines Pdf

The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and political power—by violence, by manipulation, by the gradual pressures of changing circumstance. And here are the life and culture and works of imagination that were created as the merchants and guilds wrested dominion from the ancient nobility, from the first struggles against the Holy Roman Empire in the twelfth century through the rich cultural blaze and political exhaustion of the sixteenth. Lauro Martines, Professor of History at UCLA, has drawn together and chronicled in a single fluent narrative all the explosive energies, the social strife, the civil disorder, the political violence, the economic transformations, the crises of control, the religious fervor and corruption, and the spectacular achievements of art and intellect that made and defined the city-states.

Author : Philip James Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : John E. Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : John Jeffries Martin,Dennis Romano
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0801873088

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Venice Reconsidered by John Jeffries Martin,Dennis Romano Pdf

Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.

Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0394743849

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Power and Imagination by Lauro Martines Pdf

Strong Words is a social history of the Italian Renaissance (1300-1560) in a cultural key. Using tales, poetry, prayer, and letters as prime sources, Lauro Martines probes religious sensibilities, love, alienation, explosive feeling against political auth

Author : Ronald M. Glassman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030161118

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The Future of Democracy by Ronald M. Glassman Pdf

This book focuses on the processes that help stabilize democracy. It provides a socio-historical analysis of the future prospects of democracy. The link between advanced capitalism and democracy is emphasized, focusing on contract law and the separation of the economy from the state. The book also emphasizes the positive effects of the scientific world view on legal- rational authority. Aristotle’s theory of the majority middle class and its stabilizing effect on democracy is highlighted. This book describes the face to face democracies of the past in order to give us a better perspective on the high tech democracies of the future, making it appealing to students and academics in the political and social sciences.

Author : Trevor Dean,Daniel Waley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 8778763169

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A Comparative Study of Six City-state Cultures by Mogens Herman Hansen Pdf

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 8778761778

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A Comparative Study of Thirty City-state Cultures by Mogens Herman Hansen Pdf

Author : Ronald M. Glassman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030768218

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Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century? by Ronald M. Glassman Pdf

This book analyzes the many threats to democracy that exist in the 21st century and tries to understand how democracy can survive economic, social and political crises. It focuses on issues of oligarchy, tyranny, totalitarianism, and ochlocracy. It discusses how these forms of governance manifested themselves in ancient and medieval worlds, and how socio-economic transitions in the 21st century have created conditions that increasingly pose similar threats to modern democracy. The author discusses broad transitions in the contemporary world: economic transition to advanced, high technology capitalism; cultural transition from traditional religious and family values to norms focusing on racial equality, gender and transgender equality and liberation, and multiculturalism; also, transition from the traditional religious worldview to rational-scientific worldview, and from religious morality to secular humanist ethics. These taken together undergird the political transition from traditional authority, involving monarchy and aristocracy, to rational-legal authority, involving constitutional law and democratic participation. The book shows, through extensive country discussions, that whenever these transitions become difficult, undemocratic forms of governance may emerge and override democracy. Authored by an expert in the field, this book touches upon an especially topical theme in the contemporary world and is of interest to a wide readership across the social sciences, from researchers and students to discerning laypersons.

Author : Garrett Mattingly
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781616402679

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Renaissance Diplomacy by Garrett Mattingly Pdf

Famed historian's definitive history of the origins of diplomacy, tracing the diplomat's role as it emerged in the Italian city-states and spread northward in the 16th and 17th centuries.