Umfang:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xiii, 634 p.))
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1 map
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781280647482
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1280647485
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9781139378505
Inhalt:
A magisterial account of Renaissance Italy's political history and its contribution to the evolution of a European political identity.
Inhalt:
Cover -- The Italian Renaissance State -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on the contributors -- Note on translations and usage -- Introduction -- The Italian Renaissance State: two reasons for a title -- Historiographical premises -- Main themes -- Structure of the book -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: The Italian states -- 1: The kingdom of Sicily -- Introduction -- Aragonese success and the role of the universitates -- Economic policy and reconstituting the aristocratic framework -- Demographic values -- The crisis of royal power and the government of the vicars -- The restoration of Martin I and the personal union of the crowns -- The outcomes of the confrontation between king and country in the fifteenth century -- Concluding remarks -- 2: The kingdom of Naples -- Introduction -- Anjou and Aragon: the 200-year war -- The monarchy and local powers -- The state machinery -- The political and economic structure of the kingdom -- The territory -- Concluding remarks: the curse of the south -- 3: The kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica -- Introduction -- The Trecento: the birth of the kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica -- The reign of Peter IV of Aragon and the long conflict with the giudici of Arborea -- The value of a conquest -- The Quattrocento: historical notes -- Alfonso V and the economic renewal -- Ferdinand II and the politics of redreç (reform) -- Conclusion -- 4: The papal state -- Introduction -- Fluctuations of power -- Administrative structures -- Territorial organisation -- The idea of power and the state -- The peculiarities of the sovereign pontiff -- Barons and apostolic vicars -- Towns and cives ecclesiastici -- Conclusion -- 5: Tuscan states: Florence and Siena -- Introduction -- Florence: from commune to respublica -- Florence: power and government tested -- Florence and the Medici -- The Florentine politics of magnificence.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-599) and index. - Description based on print version record
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107010123
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1280647310
Weitere Ausg.:
Druckausg. The Italian renaissance state Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012 ISBN 9781107010123
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1107010128
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Italien
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Renaissance
;
Geschichte
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Italien
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Geschichte 1420-1600
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Aufsatzsammlung
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