Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- Note on Cover -- Part I: Communes and Despots -- 1 Communes and Despots: The City State in Late-Medieval Italy -- Part II: Power and Restraint -- 2 The Use…
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…
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…
