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Author Wickham, Chris, 1950- author.

Title The mountains and the city : the Tuscan Appennines in the early Middle Ages / C.J. Wickham
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 427 pages) : maps
Summary This work is the winner of the American Historical Association Marraro Prize, 1988. "The Mountains and the City" is a rare discussion in English of the history of a region of Europe, a genre common in other countries but undeveloped in Britain. The book deals with two mountain valleys in Tuscany from the eight to the twelfth century, with some examination of their future progress into the sixteenth. It charts their internal social and economic development and their links with the emerging world of the Italian city states. The importance of the book is in its stress on the small-scale society of the mountains; on the relation of local society to its geographical environment; and, above all, in its concern to see society from below, through the activities of local people, rather than through the interests of their masters. In its focus on local interaction, this is one of the few anthropological studies of medieval history that has yet been written
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-409) and index
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Subject Economic history
Social conditions
Vroege middeleeuwen.
SUBJECT Garfagnana (Italy) -- History
Garfagnana (Italy) -- Social conditions
Garfagnana (Italy) -- Economic conditions
Casentino Valley (Italy) -- History
Casentino Valley (Italy) -- Social conditions
Casentino Valley (Italy) -- Economic conditions
Subject Italy -- Casentino Valley
Italy -- Garfagnana
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198219668
0198219660
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9781280806360