| Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy Contributor(s): Law, John E. (Author), Paton, Bernadette (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0754665089 ISBN-13: 9780754665083 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy |
| Dewey: 945.04 |
| LCCN: 2010008300 |
| Physical Information: 374 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy. |
