Creating the florentine state : peasants and rebellion, 1348-1434 / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasant uprisings--Italy--Florence Region--History.

Peasant uprisings.

Social conflict--Italy--Florence Region--History.

Social conflict.

Social change--Italy--Florence Region--History.

Social change.

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--To 1421.

Florence (Italy).

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the political history of the Renaissance: its analysis of government is embedded in the context of geography and social conflict. Instead of the usual institutional history, it examines the Florentine state from the mountainous periphery - a periphery both of geography and class - where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. Yet, far from being acted upon, Florence's highlanders were instrumental in changing the attitudes of the Florentine ruling class: the city began to see its own self-interest as intertwined with that of its region and the welfare of its rural subjects at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Contemporaries either remained silent or purposely obscured the reasons for this change, which rested on widespread and successful peasant uprisings across the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state, hitherto unrecorded by historians.

Contents:

Culture, Demography, and Fiscality

Networks of culture and the mountains

Mountain civilization and fiscality, 1393

Fiscality and change, 1355-1487

Peasant Protest in the Mountains: Three Views

Peasant insurrection in the mountains: the chroniclers' view

Peasant insurrection in the mountains as seen in the criminal records

Rebellion as seen from the provvisioni

Governmental Clemency and the Hinterland

Florentine peasant petitions: an institutional perspective

The reasons for assistance

What the peasants won

Regression models: wealth, migration, and taxes

Tax coefficients, 1354-1423.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-296) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11885-9

0-521-07292-1

1-280-15460-8

0-511-11822-8

0-511-14935-2

0-511-30961-9

0-511-49644-3

0-511-04923-4

OCLC:

437250299