Milan undone: contested sovereignties in the Italian Wars

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Part I. Politics: The temporality of the state -- Urban construction and social control as capture -- Delegitimizing the Sforza -- Part II. Property: Land and ownership -- Protecting and suing -- Document destruction and fraud -- Part III. People: Elite displacements -- Holy sovereignties -- The people. "In 1499, Milan was an independent state with a stable government. But over the next thirty years, it descended into chaos amid the Italian Wars. John Gagné details Milan's social and political…

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Full title :Milan undone : contested sovereignties in the Italian Wars / John Gagné

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Part I. Politics: The temporality of the state -- Urban construction and social control as capture -- Delegitimizing the Sforza -- Part II. Property: Land and ownership -- Protecting and suing -- Document destruction and fraud -- Part III. People: Elite displacements -- Holy sovereignties -- The people.

"In 1499, Milan was an independent state with a stable government. But over the next thirty years, it descended into chaos amid the Italian Wars. John Gagné details Milan's social and political breakdown. The Renaissance may have been the cradle of the modern nation-state, but it was also a time when sophisticated sovereigns collapsed"

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021
Edition:First printing

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 452 Seiten : Illustrationen

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674248724, 0674248724
oclc:on1226306353
LC Classification:DG657.8
Dewey Decimal:945/.206

Subjects

History Hoheitsgewalt Italie -- Histoire -- 1492-1559 Italy Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 Italy -- Milan Landeshoheit Mailand Milan (Italie) -- Administration Milan (Italie) -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1… Milan (Italy) -- History -- To 1535 Milan (Italy) -- Politics and government Politics and government Souveraineté Souveränität sovereignty To 1559