| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) |
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The medieval Mediterranean, 0928-5520 ; v. 66 |
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Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 66.
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| Contents |
Cover13; -- Copyright13; -- Contents13; -- Abbreviations13; -- Preface13; -- Part I -- Chapter One: Popular Government in Siena13; -- Chapter Two: Challenge and Response13; -- Chapter Three: Making the Nobles Unwelcome13; -- Chapter Four: Radical Popular Government and its Discontents13; -- Chapter Five: An Insecure Oligarchy13; -- Chapter Six: Towards a Signoria13; -- Part II13; -- Introduction to Part II13; -- Chapter Seven: Popular Government13; -- Chapter Eight: Oligarchy13; -- Chapter Nine: Striking a Balance13; -- Chapter Ten: Popular Government Under Pressure13; -- Conclusion13; -- Glossary13; -- Archival and Manuscript Sources13; -- Bibliography13; -- Index13 |
| Summary |
This book is an examination of the nature of the governments of towns and cities, great and small, in Renaissance Italy, and of why oligarchic regimes were becoming increasingly prevalent. Themes and questions arising from a case-study of the dramatic changes in the government of fifteenth-century Siena form the basis for the analysis of popular government and oligarchy throughout Italy, from Piedmont and the Veneto to Sicily, and of how they were shaped by social change, institutional developments and external threats and pressures, especially war. In a field dominated by local studies, this comparative approach provides a fresh understanding of the important problem of how and why broadly-based governments were losing ground to oligarchy throughout Italy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Local government -- Italy -- History
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Oligarchy -- Italy -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Local government
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Oligarchy
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Politics and government
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Politische Elite
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Oligarchie
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Stadt
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Kommunalpolitik
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Lokaal bestuur.
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Stadstaten.
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Oligarchie.
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Local government -- Italy -- History.
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Oligarchy -- Italy -- History.
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Italy -- Politics and government -- 1268-1559.
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Siena (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1355-1557
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Italy
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Italy -- Siena
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Siena
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Italien
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Italië.
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Siena.
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Italy -- Politics and government -- 1268-1559.
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Siena (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1355-1557.
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Siena (Italy) -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006049206 |
| ISBN |
9789047410621 |
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9047410629 |
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1281400106 |
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9781281400109 |
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9786611400101 |
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6611400109 |
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