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1 online resource |
| Series |
Oxford studies in medieval European history |
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Oxford studies in medieval European history
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| Contents |
Cover; The Clash of Legitimacies: The State-Building Process in Late Medieval Lombardy; Copyright; Note to the English Edition; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Rulers of Milan, 1277-1535; List of Maps and Figures; Introduction; PART I: TOWARDS THE COMMUNE AS STATE; 1: Northern Italy in the Central Middle Ages: Some Historical Background; 2: The City Commune and the Assumption of a Public Role; 3: Experimentation and Conceptualization in the Field of Urban Expansion and the Construction of Territory; 4: The Political Cultures of the City and the Territory: Some Early Affinities |
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5: Some Cornerstones of City and Communal Ideology6: Between unitas and aequalitas: The Ideology of Representation; 7: The Ideologues of Communal Political Culture; 8: The Experience of Personal Government between the Factions and the Popolo: The Persistence of the Commune; 9: Towards Conflict: The Political and Juridical Culture of the Commune Becomes Hegemonic; 9.1 LAW AS A LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT; 9.2 LAW AS A DOCTRINAL INSTRUMENT; 9.3 LAW AS A JUDICIAL INSTRUMENT; 10: The Political Cultures of the contado: Aristocratic Pre-eminence and the Subordination of the Rural Dweller |
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11: Rural Communes and the Culture of PracticesPART II: TOWARDS THE REGIONAL STATE; 1: New Scenarios, Old Questions; 2: The Rise of Visconti Power: Between Legitimation from Belowand a Longing for Majesty; 3: The Ideology of the Regional State; 4: Law as a Field of Tension; 4.1 LAW AS A LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT; 4.2 LAW AS A DOCTRINAL INSTRUMENT; 4.3 LAW AS A JUDICIAL INSTRUMENT; 5: The Duke and the Culture of Individual Distinction; 6: The Territorial Aristocracies: Pressure from Below, Organization from Above; 7: The Foundations of Seigneurial Power in the Countryside |
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8: Guelphs and Ghibellines: Another Idea of Legitimacy9: 'Pacta servanda sunt': The Political Culture of Contractualism; Concluding Note; Bibliography; PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index |
| Summary |
Historians have long understood the period 1100 to 1500 to be the key phase in the genesis of the modern state. In this innovative work, Andrea Gamberini examines the case of late medieval Lombardy to show that the advent of the state did not extinguish the traditional values and principles of political cohabitation that had long been in place |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-231) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 11, 2018) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Lombardy (Italy) -- History -- To 1535.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078185
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Lombardy (Italy) -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
Italy -- Lombardy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192557599 |
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0192557599 |
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9780191862861 |
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019186286X |
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