The legacy of power -- The population -- Government -- Town and country -- External relations -- Civic spirit and the visual arts -- Internal divisions -- The failure of the republics -- The historiography of the city-republics. "Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Repub…
"Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual 'tyrants' …
"Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual 'tyrants' …
"Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual 'tyrants' …
"Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual 'tyrants' …
The Italian renaissance state
The Italian renaissance state
The Italian Renaissance State
The Italian renaissance state
"This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the comp…
The Italian Renaissance State
This magisterial study offers a revised account of the complex political history of Renaissance Italy. Its team of leading international scholars reinvigorates the place of politics in Renaissance historiography, identifying the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the s…
The Italian renaissance state
This study offers a revised account of the complex political history of Renaissance Italy. Its team of leading scholars reinvigorates the place of politics in Renaissance historiography, identifying the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the state in Europe.
"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 ofte…
