The city-state in Europe, 1000-1600 : hinterland, territory, region / Tom Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Tom, 1947-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City-states--Europe--History--To 1500.

City-states.

City-states--Europe--History--16th century.

Cities and towns, Medieval--Europe--History.

Cities and towns, Medieval.

History.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Europe--History--1492-1648.

Physical Description:

xv, 382 pages : maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

No detailed comparison of the city state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state, or else on their artistic and cultural achievements, above all in Italy. Much less attention has been devoted to the cities' territorial expansion: why, how, and with what consequences cities in the urban belt, stretching from central and northern Italy over the Alps to Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries, succeeded (or failed) in constructing sovereign politics, with or without dependent territories.

Tom Scott goes beyond the customary locus on the leading Italian city-states to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of the Swiss city-states and the imperial cities of Germany. He criticizes current typologies of the city-state in Europe advanced by political and social scientists to suggest that the city-state was not a spent force in early modern Europe, but rather survived by transformation and adaption. He puts forward instead a typology which embraces both time and space by arguing for a regional framework for analysis which does not treat city-states in isolation, but within a wider geopolitical setting. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Europe in AD 1000 5

I Urban revival 5

II The communal tradition 9

III The Mediterranean cities 12

IV The age of church reform 15

2 The rise of the communes, 1000-1150 17

I The early Italian communes 17

II Diocese and county 22

III Territorial expansion 24

IV Cities and rural lords 28

V Communal instability 31

3 Cities and their adversaries, 1150-1300 33

I Empire and papacy 33

II The Lombard leagues 36

III Podesta and popolo 39

IV The foundation of new towns 44

V The emancipation of serfs 47

VI The rise of the signoria 51

VII Cities and leagues in northern Europe 56

4 City-states at the crossroads, 1300-1450: the south 64

I Consolidation and realignment in Italy 64

II Lombardy and Liguria 66

III Venice: 'Stato di Mar' and terraferma 78

IV Emilia-Romagna and central Italy 92

V Tuscany 103

5 City-states at the crossroads, 1300-1450: the north 129

I The patterns of domination 129

II The southern Low Countries 131

III The Hanseatic and north German cities 137

IV Cities and towns in southern Germany 148

V The Swiss Confederation 164

6 Survival and transformation, 1450-1600 193

I The patterns of change 193

II Survival by attraction 194

III Survival by accommodation 199

IV Survival by adaption 206

V Survival by default 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199274604

0199274606

OCLC:

757147106