Shaw, Christine
Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy

Christine Shaw examines 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. XIV,332 Seiten, gebunden (The Medieval Mediterranean; vol. 66/Brill 2006) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use