Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on citations, dates, and measures; Introduction; 1: Networks of culture and the mountains; 2: Mountain civilization and fiscality, 1393; 3: Fiscality and change, 1355-1487; 4: Peasant insurrection in the mountains: the chroniclers' view; 5: Peasant insurrection in the mountains as seen in the criminal records; 6: Rebellion as seen from the provvisioni; 7: Florentine peasant petitions: an institutional perspective; 8: The reasons for assistance; 9: What the peasants won; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography
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Summary
This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance by examining the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state and the political effects of widespread and successful peasant uprisings, hitherto unrecorded by historians, during the period 1348-1434
