Popular government and oligarchy in Renaissance Italy /
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| Author / Creator: | Shaw, Christine (Italian Renaissance historian) |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The medieval Mediterranean, 0928-5520 ; v. 66 Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 66. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185017 |
| Summary: | This book is an examination of the nature of the governments of towns and cities, great and small, in Renaissance Italy, and of why oligarchic regimes were becoming increasingly prevalent. Themes and questions arising from a case-study of the dramatic changes in the government of fifteenth-century Siena form the basis for the analysis of popular government and oligarchy throughout Italy, from Piedmont and the Veneto to Sicily, and of how they were shaped by social change, institutional developments and external threats and pressures, especially war. In a field dominated by local studies, this comparative approach provides a fresh understanding of the important problem of how and why broadly-based governments were losing ground to oligarchy throughout Italy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047410621 9047410629 1281400106 9781281400109 900415311X 9789004153110 9786611400101 6611400109 |
| ISSN: | 0928-5520 ; |