Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Hardcover

Law, John E.

 
9780754665083: Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754665089 ISBN 13: 9780754665083
Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

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About the Author

John E. Law is Reader in the Department of History at Swansea University, UK. Bernadette Paton is a senior editor at Oxford University Press, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754665089
ISBN 13 
9780754665083
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
374
Editor
Paton Bernadette