Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15311-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 66, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaw, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I
Chapter One Popular government in Siena
Chapter Two Challenge and response
Chapter Three Making the nobles unwelcome
Chapter Four Radical popular government and its discontents
Chapter Five An insecure oligarchy
Chapter Six Towards a signoria
Part II
Introduction to Part II
Chapter Seven Popular government
Chapter Eight Oligarchy
Chapter Nine Striking a balance
Chapter Ten Popular government under pressure
Conclusion
Glossary
Archival and Manuscript Sources
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Shaw, D.Phil. (1983), University of Oxford, is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on the political history of Renaissance Italy, including The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy (2000).