Popular government and oligarchy in Renaissance Italy / by Christine Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Christine (Italian Renaissance historian)

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 66.

The medieval Mediterranean, 0928-5520 ; v. 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local government--Italy--History.

Local government.

Oligarchy--Italy--History.

Oligarchy.

Italy--Politics and government--1268-1559.

Italy.

Siena (Italy)--Politics and government--1355-1557.

Siena (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an examination of the nature of the governments of towns and cities, great and small, in Renaissance Italy, and of why oligarchic regimes were becoming increasingly prevalent. Themes and questions arising from a case-study of the dramatic changes in the government of fifteenth-century Siena form the basis for the analysis of popular government and oligarchy throughout Italy, from Piedmont and the Veneto to Sicily, and of how they were shaped by social change, institutional developments and external threats and pressures, especially war. In a field dominated by local studies, this comparative approach provides a fresh understanding of the important problem of how and why broadly-based governments were losing ground to oligarchy throughout Italy.

Contents:

Preface

Part I

Chapter One Popular government in Siena

Chapter Two Challenge and response

Chapter Three Making the nobles unwelcome

Chapter Four Radical popular government and its discontents

Chapter Five An insecure oligarchy

Chapter Six Towards a signoria

Part II

Introduction to Part II

Chapter Seven Popular government

Chapter Eight Oligarchy

Chapter Nine Striking a balance

Chapter Ten Popular government under pressure

Conclusion

Glossary

Archival and Manuscript Sources

Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-323) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-40010-6

9786611400101

90-474-1062-9

OCLC:

290586709

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047410621 DOI