Communes and despots in medieval and Renaissance Italy, edited by John E. Law and Bernadette Paton

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The instance Communes and despots in medieval and Renaissance Italy, edited by John E. Law and Bernadette Paton represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.

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Label

Communes and despots in medieval and Renaissance Italy, edited by John E. Law and Bernadette Paton

Statement of responsibility

edited by John E. Law and Bernadette Paton

Instantiates

• Communes and despots in medieval and Renaissance Italy

Publication

• Farnham, Ashgate, 2010

Note

Based on a conference held at Brasenose College on 6 and 7 September 2007 in memory of Philip Jones -- introduction

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Political thought: theory and practice
• Communes and despots: some Italian and Transalpine political thinkers
• Robert Black
• The myth of the Renaissance Despot
• Benjamin G. Kohl
• Conflicting attitudes towards Machiavelli's works in sixteenth-century Spain, Rome and Florence
• Humfrey C. Butters
• Communes and despots: some case studies
• From commune to regional state: political experiments in fourteenth century Cremona
• Marco Gentile
• Communes and despots
• The Gonzaga Signoria, communal institutions and 'the honor of the city': mixed ideas in quattrocento Mantua
• David S. Chambers
• Giangaleazzo Visconti and the ducal title
• Jane Black
• 'Whatever's administered is best': Paolo Guinigi signore of Lucca, 1400-1430
• Christine Meek
• The mouse ane the elephant: relations between the kings of Naples and ateh lordship of Piombino in the fifteenth century
• David Abulafia
• Communes and despots: the nature of 'diarchy'
• John E. Law
• Communes and despots: the city state in Late-Medieval Italy
• Concepts of Libertà in Renaissance Genoa
• Christine Shaw
• The case of the Medici
• Prato and Lorenzo de' Medici
• F. W. Kent
• The early years of Piero de Lorenzo, 1472-1492: between Florentine citizen and Medici Prince
• Alison Brown
• Muddying the waters: Alfonsina Orsini de' Medici and the Lake of Fucecchio
• Cathreine Kovesi -- The Medici Dukes, Comandati and Pratolino: forced labour in Renaissance Florence
• Suzanne B. Butters
• P. J. Jones
• Culture, art, and patronage
• Giovanni Bellini and the background to Venetian painting
• George Holmes
• Communes, despots and universities: structures and trends of Italian studi to 1500
• Peter Denley
• Aedificia iam in regales surgunt altitudines: The Mendicant Great Church in the Trecento
• Julian Gardner
• 'Communes and Despots': The opening paragraph
• Trevor Dean
• Power and restraint
• The use of sortition in appointments in the Italian Communes
• Daniel Waley
• Magnate violence revisited
• Carol Lansing

Control code

ocn537652597

Dimensions

26 cm.

Extent

xvii, 354 p.

Isbn

9780754665083

Lccn

2010008300

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)

Record ID

b2498617