Introduction: Historical and literary connections between Britain and Italy in the Middle Ages / Michele Campopiano -- Writing, translating and imagining Italy in the Polychronicon / Margaret Bridges -- Richard de Bury, Petrarch and Avignon / Carolyn P. Collette -- The reception of Itailian political theory in northern England : Bartolus of Saxoferrato and Giles of Rome in York / Michele Campopiano -- Italian firms in late Medieval England and their bankruptcy ; re-reading an old history of financial crisis / Ignazio Del Punta -- "Nostri fratelli da Londra" : the Lucchese community in late Medieval England / Bart Lambert -- "Saluti da Londra" : Italian merchants in the City of London in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries / Helen Bradley -- Political Joachism and the English Franciscans : the rumour of Richard II's return / Victoria Flood -- Urban history in Medieval and Early Modern Britain : the influence of classical and Italian models / Helen Fulton -- Afterword: The nature of Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges / Helen Fulton
Summary
Essays demonstrating the importance and inflence of Italian culture on medieval Britain
