A history of Florence 1200-1575 /
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| Author / Creator: | Najemy, John M., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006. |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xi, 515 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12041788 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Elite Families
- Lineages
- Knighthood and Feuds
- Political Alignments and Factions
- Culture and Religion
- 2. The Popolo
- Definitions
- Guilds
- Culture and Education: Notaries
- Religion
- Critique of Elite Misrule
- 3. Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo
- Before 1250
- Primo Popolo
- Angevin Alliance
- Priorate of the Guilds
- Second Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice
- Elite Resurgence: Black and White Guelfs
- 4. Domestic Economy and Merchant Empires to 1340
- Population: City and Contado
- Textiles, Building, and Provisioning
- Merchant Companies and the Mercanzia
- Taxation and Public Finances
- 5. The Fourteenth-Century Dialogue of Power
- Elite Dominance, 1310-40
- Crisis of the 1340s and the Third Popular Government
- Funded Public Debt and Bankruptcies
- Elite Recovery and Popular Reaction
- War against the Church
- 6. Revolution and Realignment
- WorkersÆ Economic Conditions
- The Ciompi Revolution
- The Last Guild Government
- Counterrevolution
- Fear of the Working Classes
- Consensus Politics
- 7. War, Territorial Expansion, and the Transformation of Political Discourse
- First Visconti Wars
- Territorial Dominion: The Conquest of Pisa
- Civic Humanism
- The Civic Family
- 8. Family and State in the Age of Consensus
- The Family Imaginary
- Households, Marriage, Dowries
- Women, Property, Inheritance
- Children, Hospitals, Charity
- Policing Sodomy
- 9. Fateful Embrace: The Emergence of the Medici
- A New Style of Leadership
- Fiscal Crisis and the Catasto
- CosimoÆs Money and Friends
- Showdown
- 10. The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict
- Part I. Cosimo and Piero
- Institutional Controls
- External Supports: Papacy and Sforza Milan
- CosimoÆs Coup
- The Ottimati Challenge Piero
- 11. The Luxury Economy and Art Patronage
- Poverty and Wealth
- Public and Private Patronage
- Family Commemoration and Self-Fashioning
- 12. The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict
- Part II. Lorenzo
- LorenzoÆs Elders
- LorenzoÆs Volterra Massacre
- Pazzi Conspiracy and War
- The (Insecure) Prince in All but Name
- Building a Dynasty
- 13. Reinventing the Republic
- French Invasion and Expulsion of the Medici
- The Great Council
- SavonarolaÆs Holy Republic
- Domestic Discord and Dominion Crises
- Soderini, MachiavelliÆs Militia, and Pisa
- 14. Papal Overlords
- The Cardinal and a Controversial Marriage
- Fall of the Republic and Return of the Medici
- A Regime Adrift
- Aristocratic and Popular Republicanisms
- The Nascent Principate
- 15. The Last Republic and the Medici Duchy
- Revolution
- Siege
- Imposition of a New Order
- Ducal Government
- Finances and Economy
- Courtly and Cultural Discipline
- Victor and Vanquished
- Epilogue: Remembrance of Things Past
- Index
