M. E. Bratchel

Medieval Lucca and the Evolution of the Renaissance State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first scholarly study covering the history of both the city and the region of Lucca, from classical antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780199542901
• ISBN-10: 0199542902
• Artikelnr.: 24765646

Autorenporträt

M. E. Bratchel is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Witwatersrand and has held visiting fellowships at many institutions, including the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Cambridge, the University of London, the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, and the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities at Bogliasco. He has written numerous articles on the social and economic history of Tuscany and on state-formation in late medieval Italy and is the author of Lucca 1430-1494: The Reconstruction of an Italian City-Republic, also published by Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Lucca's Ancient Heritage: The Early Structures of City and
Territory
* 2: The Early Commune and the Conquest of the Contado
* 3: The Administration of a Medieval City-Territory: Twelfth to
Fourteenth Centuries
* 4: The Fourteenth Century: The Lucchese State from the Loss of
Independence to the Recovery of Liberty
* 5: The Signoria of Paolo Guinigi and the Evolution of the
Fifteenth-Century Lucchese State
* 6: Lucca and its Territories in the Fifteenth Century: Politics and
Administration
* 7: Lucca and its Territories in the Fifteenth Century: Economy and
Society
* Glossary
* Bibliography
* Index