Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe

Herausgeber: Ferente, Serena; Pattenden, Miles; Kun¿evi¿, Lovro

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Produktbeschreibung

Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe examines the norms and practices of collective decision-making across pre-modern European history, east and west, and their influence in shaping both intra- and inter-communal relationships. Offering a wide chronological and geographical scope, it is ideal for academics and students of the history of voting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9781138215962
• ISBN-10: 1138215961
• Artikelnr.: 57048176

Autorenporträt

Serena Ferente is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at King's College London. Lovro Kun¿evi¿ is Faculty Member of the Institute for Historical Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Dubrovnik. Miles Pattenden is Research Fellow in Early Modern History at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Part one: Ideas and Representations; Chapter 1: Not just Voting but being
Counted: the Cases of Ancient Greece; Chapter 2: Roman Reflections on
Voting Practices: also a Pythagorean Affair; Chapter 3: Cultures of
Unanimity in Carolingian Councils; Chapter 4: A Vote for the New World
Order: the Dardanelles meeting in 1235 (the Council at
Lampsacus-Gallipoli); Chapter 5: Voting at the Council of Constance
(1414-18); Chapter 6: Cultures of Secrecy in Pre-Modern Papal Elections;
Chapter 7: 'Conforme al vivere civile et politico': Machiavelli's newly
discovered proposal for electoral reform in 1512; Chapter 8: A Culture of
Voting in Seventeenth-Century England; Chapter 9: Dead and Buried after the
Elections? Voting and Citizenship in the Batavian Revolution; Part two:
Practices, Institutions, Procedures; Chapter 10: The Culture of Voting in
Medieval Split: Appearance and Reality; Chapter 11: From Discussion to
Vote: Practices of Political Deliberation and Written Records in Communal
Italy; Chapter 12: Parties, Quotas and Elections in Late Medieval Genoa;
Chapter 13: The Election of the Abbess: Political Reasons of Monastic
Discipline in Renaissance Parma; Chapter 14: Political Decision-Making in
the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries; Chapter 15:'Il fait bon voir de tout leur sénat ballotter'. The
Ubiquity of Voting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Venice; Chapter 16: The
Citizens and the King: Voting and Electoral Procedures in Southern Italian
Towns under the Aragonese ; Chapter 17: Voting in the Parliaments of the
Crown of Aragon, c.1300-1716; Chapter 18: Voting and Elections in the Elite
Ragusan Confraternities of St Anthony and St Lazarus; Chapter 19: Voting on
the Move: Elections of Caravanbashi by Armenian Merchants in Poland and the
Ottoman Empire, 1500-1700; Chapter 20: Municipal Elections and Contested
Religious Space: Electoral Practices and Confessional Politics in
Mediterranean France during the French Wars of Religion