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Author Lee, Alexander (Historian), author.

Title Humanism and empire : the imperial ideal in fourteenth-century Italy / Alexander Lee
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Contents Pt. I Defence of Empire -- 1. Communes, Signori, and Empire (c.1260 -- c.1335) -- 2. History, Providence, and Empire (c.1290 -- c.1335) -- 3. Italy, Rome, and Empire (c.1335 -- 1369) -- 4. Twilight of Empire (c.1369 -- 1402) -- pt. II Dynamics of Empire -- 5. Bounds of Empire -- 6. Imperium and Sacerdotium -- 7. Elective Empire
Summary The first comprehensive, synoptic study of humanistic ideas of Empire in the period c.1250-1402, Humanism and Empire offers a radical new interpretation of fourteenth-century political thought, and raises wide-ranging questions about the foundations of modern constitutional ideas and the origins of the concept of liberty
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1269?-1313.
SUBJECT Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1269?-1313 fast
Subject Humanism -- Italy -- History -- 14th century
Political science -- Italy -- History -- 14th century
Imperialism -- History -- 14th century
Philosophy, Renaissance.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Humanism
Imperialism
Philosophy, Renaissance
Political science
Politics and government
SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 14th century
Holy Roman Empire -- History -- 14th century
Subject Europe -- Holy Roman Empire
Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191662645
019166264X
9780191753107
0191753106