Popular government and oligarchy in Renaissance Italy /

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Author / Creator:	Shaw, Christine (Italian Renaissance historian)
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.
Subject:	Local government -- Italy -- History. Oligarchy -- Italy -- History. Local government. Oligarchy. Politics and government Italy -- Politics and government -- 1268-1559. Siena (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1355-1557. Italy. Italy -- Siena. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185017

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ISBN:	9789047410621 9047410629 1281400106 9781281400109 900415311X 9789004153110 9786611400101 6611400109
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Shaw, Christine, Dr. Popular government and oligarchy in Renaissance Italy. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

Table of Contents:

Cover13;
Copyright13;
Contents13;
Abbreviations13;
Preface13;
Part I
Chapter One: Popular Government in Siena13;
Chapter Two: Challenge and Response13;
Chapter Three: Making the Nobles Unwelcome13;
Chapter Four: Radical Popular Government and its Discontents13;
Chapter Five: An Insecure Oligarchy13;
Chapter Six: Towards a Signoria13;
Part II13;
Introduction to Part II13;
Chapter Seven: Popular Government13;
Chapter Eight: Oligarchy13;
Chapter Nine: Striking a Balance13;
Chapter Ten: Popular Government Under Pressure13;
Conclusion13;
Glossary13;
Archival and Manuscript Sources13;
Bibliography13;
Index13.

Popular government and oligarchy in Renaissance Italy /

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