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Format: 1 online resource (352 p.)

ISBN: 9780674249936

Series Statement: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

Content: A new history of how one of the Renaissance’s preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars.In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major powers of Europe battled for supremacy, Milan, viewed by contemporaries as the “key to Italy,” found itself wracked by a tug-of-war between French claimants and its ruling Sforza family. In just thirty years, the city endured nine changes of government before falling under three centuries of Habsburg dominion. John Gagné offers a new history of Milan’s demise as a sovereign state. His focus is not on the successive wars themselves but on the social disruption that resulted. Amid the political whiplash, the structures of not only government but also daily life broke down. The very meanings of time, space, and dynasty—and their importance to political authority—were rewritten. While the feudal relationships that formed the basis of property rights and the rule of law were shattered, refugees spread across the region. Exiles plotted to claw back what they had lost.Milan Undone is a rich and detailed story of harrowing events, but it is more than that. Gagné asks us to rethink the political legacy of the Renaissance: the cradle of the modern nation-state was also the deathbed of one of its most sophisticated precursors. In its wake came a kind of reversion—not self-rule but chaos and empire.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , TIMELINE -- , Introduction -- , PART I: POLITICS -- , 1. The Temporality of the State -- , 2. Urban Construction and Social Control as Capture -- , 3. Delegitimizing the Sforza -- , PART II: PROPERTY -- , 4. Land and Ownership -- , 5. Protecting and Suing -- , 6. Document Destruction and Fraud -- , PART III: PEOPLE -- , 7. Elite Displacements -- , 8. Holy Sovereignties -- , 9. The People -- , Conclusion: The Empire Strikes Back -- , NOTES -- , BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , INDEX , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674249936

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674249936

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Format: 1 online resource (452 pages) , Illustrationen

Edition: First printing

ISBN: 9780674249936 , 9780674249912 , 9780674249929

Series Statement: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674248724

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gagné, John Milan undone Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780674248724

Language: English

Keywords: Mailand ; Hoheitsgewalt ; Landeshoheit ; Souveränität ; Geschichte 1499-1599

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