Political Conspiracy In Florence 1340 1382
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Author | : Robert A. Fredona |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
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This dissertation examines the role of secret practices of opposition in the urban politics of Florence between 1340 and 1382. It is based on a wide variety of printed and archival sources, including chronicles, judicial records, government enactments, the records of consultative assemblies, statutes, chancery letters, tax records, private diaries and account books, and the ad hoc opinions (consilia) of jurists. Over the course of four chapters, it presents three major arguments: (1) Conspiracy, a central mechanism of political change and the predominant expression of political dissent in the city, remained primarily a function of the factionalism that had shattered the medieval commune, although it was now practiced not as open warfare but secret resistance. (2) Conspiracies were especially common when the city was ruled by popular governments, which faced almost constant conspiratorial resistance from elite factions that been expelled from the city or had had their political power restricted, while also inspiring increased worker unrest and secret labor organization. (3) Although historians have often located the origins of the "state" in the late medieval and early Renaissance cities of northern and central Italy, the prevalence of secret political opposition, the strength of conspirators and their allies, and the ability of conspiratorial networks, large worker congregations, and even powerful families to vie with weak regimes for power and legitimacy seriously calls this into question.
Author | : Chris Jones |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2023-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000898326 |
This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought. Recent scholarship on medieval and Renaissance political thought is witness to tectonic movements. These involve quiet, yet considerable, re-evaluations of key thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and Machiavelli, as well as the string of lesser known "political thinkers" who wrote in western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Reformation. Taking stock of thirty years of developments, this volume demonstrates the contemporary vibrancy of the history of medieval and Renaissance political thought. By both celebrating and challenging the perspectives of a generation of scholars, notably Cary J. Nederman, it offers refreshing new assessments. The book re-introduces the history of western political thought in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the wider disciplines of History and Political Science. Recent historiographical debates have revolutionized discussion of whether or not there was an "Aristotelian revolution" in the thirteenth century. Thinkers such as Machiavelli and Marsilius of Padua are read in new ways; less well-known texts, such as the Irish On the Twelve Abuses of the Age, offer new perspectives. Further, the collection argues that medieval political ideas contain important lessons for the study of concepts of contemporary interest such as toleration. The volume is an ideal resource for both students and scholars interested in medieval and Renaissance history as well as the history of political thought.
Author | : Elsa Filosa |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2022-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487532733 |
Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Florence explores the financial, political, and social turbulence of Florence at this time, as well as the major players in literary and political circles, to understand the complex ways they emerged in Boccaccio’s writing. Based on extensive archival research and close reading of Boccaccio’s works, the book aims to recover the dynamics of the Florentine conspiracy of 1360 and how this event affected Boccaccio’s writing, arguing that his works reveal clear references to this episode when read in light of the reconstructed historical context. In this rich and textured picture of the man in his time, Elsa Filosa documents a microhistory of connections and interconnections and offers new, more political and historically imbedded readings of Boccaccio’s seminal works.
Author | : Niall Atkinson |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271077816 |
From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society. Analyzing a range of documentary and literary evidence, art and architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an “acoustic topography” of Florence. The dissemination of official messages, the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city’s physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal, communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious. By exploring these rarely studied soundscapes, Atkinson shows Florence to be both an exceptional and an exemplary case study of urban conditions in the early modern period.
Author | : John M. Najemy |
Publisher | : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780772720382 |
This volume celebrates John M. Najemy and his contributions to the study of Florentine and Italian Renaissance history. Over the last three decades, his books and articles on Florentine politics and political thought have substantially revised the narratives and contours of these fields. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in Renaissance social and cultural history. Presented by his many students and friends, the essays aim to highlight his varied interests and to suggest where they may point for future studies of Florence and, indeed, beyond. -- Amazon.com.
Author | : Lauro Martines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Conspiracies |
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In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family miscarried dramatically. A bloodbath followed in reprisal.
Author | : Nicolai Rubinstein |
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Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Giovanni Caroli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Christianity and religious humanism |
ISBN | : 9789004346123 |
This volume offers a unique glimpse into the mind of Giovanni Caroli's powerful personal reaction to the institutional crisis regarding the required reform in the Dominican Order in the mid-fifteenth century, through a critical edition of his The Book of My Days in Lucca.
Author | : John Larner |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1965-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349005894 |
Author | : Dante Fedele |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 719 |
Release | : 2021-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004447121 |
Dante Fedele’s new work of reference reveals the medieval foundations of international law through a comprehensive study of a key figure of late medieval legal scholarship: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400).