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The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, which is recognized as a groundbreaking study challenging traditional approaches to both Florentine and legal history. Essays by leading historians examine the professional, social, and political functions of Italian jurists from the thirteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. The volume also examines the use of emergency powers, the critical role played by jurists in mediating the rule of law, and the adjudication of political crimes. The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy provides both an assessment of Martines' pioneering archival scholarship as well as fresh insights into the interplay of law and politics in late medieval and Renaissance Italy.
Religion, the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
This volume brings together some of the most exciting new scholarship on these themes, and thus pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika. Seventeen interdisciplinary essays offer new insights into the materiality and belief systems of early modern religious cultures as found in artworks, books, fragmentary texts and even in Protestant ‘relics’. Some contributions reassess communal and individual responses to cases of possession, others focus on witchcraft and manifestations of the disordered natural world. Canonical figures and events, from Martin Luther to the Salem witch trials, are looked at afresh. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how cultural and interdisciplinary trends in religious history illuminate the experiences of early modern Europeans. Contributors: Susan Broomhall, Heather Dalton, Dagmar Eichberger, Peter Howard, E. J. Kent, Brian P. Levack, Dolly MacKinnon, Louise Marshall, Donna Merwick, Leigh T.I. Penman, Shelley Perlove, Lyndal Roper, Peter Sherlock, Larry Silver, Patricia Simons, Jennifer Spinks, Hans de Waardt and Alexandra Walsham.
Florentine Tuscany
Florence has often been studied in the past for its distinctive urban culture and society, while insufficient attention has been paid to the important Tuscan territorial state that was created by Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Comprising a handful of formerly independent city-states and numerous smaller communities in the plains and mountains, the Florentine 'empire' in Tuscany supplied the markets and fiscal coffers of the Renaissance republic, while providing lessons in statecraft that nourished the political thought of Machiavelli and Guicciardini. This volume comprises seventeen original essays representing the new directions being taken by historians of the Florentine Renaissance. It offers new and exemplary approaches towards state-building, political vocabulary, political economy, civic humanism, local history and social patronage in what is one of the most interesting and well-documented of the states of late medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Il banco Strozzi di Napoli
Realtà composita e complessa, il Mezzogiorno tardomedievale viene qui presentato attraverso il filtro delle scritture contabili di una grande banca fiorentina: l’istituto di intermediazione creditizia impiantato a Napoli dai fratelli Filippo e Lorenzo Strozzi. Partendo dalla loro attività di mercanti e banchieri, di cui i Libri Giornali superstiti del banco napoletano e le Ricordanze offrono ampia e puntuale testimonianza, si approfondisce il tema dei rapporti e degli scambi tra i principali spazi economici del Mediterraneo occidentale nella seconda metà del XV secolo. Lo sguardo sulla capitale partenopea, oltre ad ampliare il quadro delle conoscenze riguardo a questa importante piazza commerciale e finanziaria quattrocentesca, sugli operatori economici coinvolti e sui rispettivi raggi d’azione e d’influenza, ha consentito, attraverso un metodo induttivo, di rilevare e ricostruire diversi aspetti della vita economica e sociale del Regno di Napoli al tempo di Ferrante d’Aragona (1458-1494).
Uomini d'affari e mercanti toscani nella Barcellona del Quattrocento
A partir de la publicación, en 1949, de la obra ya clásica de Fernand Braudel "La Méditerranée et le monde Méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II", los estudiosos han dedicado particular atención al Mediterráneo como sujeto histórico, y han contribuido al conocimiento de las civilizaciones que se asomaban a esta cuenca y de sus interacciones. Colectivos caracterizados por una fuerte movilidad, primero entre todos los mercantiles, fueron protagonistas de los intercambios económicos y culturales. En el bajo medioevo los toscanos fueron entre los mercaderes más dinámicos y emprendedores. Presentes con sus compañías en las mayores plazas de Europa y del Mediterráneo, se caracte...
The House of Condulmer
How a lower patrician Venetian family strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries The House of Condulmer tells the story of a lower patrician Venetian family in the wake of the Black Death, as they strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The Condulmers experienced mixed fortunes in their efforts at social mobility. Exiled after their participation in a failed revolt against the Venetian state, they nevertheless managed to accrue a great deal of wealth in the period before the Black Death. In the aftermath of the plague, which ravaged Venice and wiped out many lines of the family, the fortun...
Le calamità ambientali nel tardo Medioevo europeo
For some time historiography has set itself the objective of studying the ways in which European society in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Age has related to environmental disasters, addressing the perceptions and the reactions, the strategies implemented by the governments, and the repercussions on the religious mentality. In this way it has identified a sphere of investigation that is an authentic multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary workshop, engaging historians of institutions, culture and mentality. At the conference held in San Miniato, Italian and European historians compared notes on this subject, addressing it from different points of view and taking into consideration different environmental contexts (the cities and the rivers, the mountain, the sea, Italy, France, Holland, etc.) and different viewpoints (those of the governments, the lay 'intellectuals', the men of religion, etc.).
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