Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the later Middle Ages / edited by Helen Fulton and Michele Compopiano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campopiano, Michele, editor.

Fulton, Helen, 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Europe--History--1492-1648.

Europe.

History.

Middle Ages.

Europe--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Europe--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Great Britain--Relations--Italy.

Great Britain.

Italy--Relations--Great Britain.

Italy.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Suffolk : York Medieval Press, 2018.

Summary:

Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster productive and far-reaching connections and cultural interactions between Britain and Italy; equally, the flourishing of Italian humanism from the late fourteenth century onwards had a major impact on intellectual life in Britain. The aim of this book is to illustrate the continuity and the variety of these exchanges during the period. Each chapter focuses on a specific area (book collection, historiography, banking, commerce, literary production), highlighting the significance of the productive interchange of people and ideas across diverse cultural communities; it is the lived experience of individuals, substantiated by written evidence, that shapes the book's collective understanding of how two European cultures interacted with each other so fruitfully.

Contents:

Introduction: Historical and literary connections between Britain and Italy in the Middle Ages / Michele Campopiano

Writing, translating and imagining Italy in the Polychronicon / Margaret Bridges

Richard de Bury, Petrarch and Avignon / Carolyn P. Collette

The reception of Itailian political theory in northern England : Bartolus of Saxoferrato and Giles of Rome in York / Michele Campopiano

Italian firms in late Medieval England and their bankruptcy ; re-reading an old history of financial crisis / Ignazio Del Punta

"Nostri fratelli da Londra" : the Lucchese community in late Medieval England / Bart Lambert

"Saluti da Londra" : Italian merchants in the City of London in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries / Helen Bradley

Political Joachism and the English Franciscans : the rumour of Richard II's return / Victoria Flood

Urban history in Medieval and Early Modern Britain : the influence of classical and Italian models / Helen Fulton

Afterword: The nature of Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges / Helen Fulton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-203) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the Later Middle Ages.

ISBN:

9781903153697

1903153697

OCLC:

1016815200