Beyond Florence : the contours of medieval and early modern Italy / edited by Paula Findlen, Michelle M. Fontaine and Duane J. Osheim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Findlen, Paula.

Fontaine, Michelle.

Osheim, Duane J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Italy--History--Congresses.

Italy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xviii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Moving beyond the long-dominant emphasis on Florence, this book explores the diversity of Italian urban and provincial life from the 11th through the 17th centuries. A group of 16 urban social, religious, and economic historians present essays that reflect this shift and illustrate some of the significant new research directions of the field.

Contents:

Part 1 Florence, Italy, and the Renaissance 1

1 Florence Redux / Gene Brucker 5

2 In and Out of Florence / Paula Findlen 13

Part 2 City and Countryside 29

3 The Other Florence Within Florence / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 33

4 A World of Its Own: Economy, Society, and Religious Life in the Tuscan Mugello at the Time of Dante / George Dameron 45

5 The Country Parish at Late Medieval Lucca / Duane J. Osheim 59

6 "Do Not Say That This Is a Man from Assisi" / Robert Brentano 72

Part 3 Law and Society 81

7 Concubines, Lovers, Prostitutes: Infamy and Female Identity in Medieval Bologna / Carol Lansing 85

8 Lost Faith: A Roman Prosecutor Reflects on Notaries' Crimes / Laurie Nussdorfer 101

Part 4 Urban and Religious Identities 115

9 Pilgrim-Tourism in Late Medieval Venice / Robert C. Davis 119

10 The Hermit Returns: Sanctity and the City in the March of Ancona / Robert L. Cooper 133

11 In the Shop of the Lord: Bernardino of Siena and Popular Devotion / Cynthia L. Polecritti 147

12 "Angels of Peace": The Social Drama of the Jesuit Mission in Early Modern Southern Italy / Jennifer D. Selwyn 160

Part 5 Topographies of Power 177

13 Topographies of Power in the Urban Centers of Medieval Italy: Communes, Bishops, and Public Authority / Maureen C. Miller 181

14 In Search of the Quiet City: Civic Identity and Papal State Building in Fourteenth-Century Orvieto / David Foote 190

15 Back to the Future: Remaking the Commune in Ducal Modena / Michelle M. Fontaine 205

16 The Spanish Foundations of Late Renaissance and Baroque Rome / Thomas Dandelet 219

Afterword: Where Is Beyond Florence? / Randolph Starn 233.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held at Stanford University in November 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-313) and index.

ISBN:

080473934X

0804739358

OCLC:

49415746