The clash of legitimacies : the state-building process in late medieval Lombardy / Andrea Gamberini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamberini, Andrea, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in medieval European history.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in medieval European history

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lombardy (Italy)--History--To 1535.

Lombardy (Italy).

Lombardy (Italy)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) : illustration (black and white), maps (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Historians have long understood the period 1100 to 1500 to be the key phase in the genesis of the modern state. In this innovative work, Andrea Gamberini examines the case of late medieval Lombardy to show that the advent of the state did not extinguish the traditional values and principles of political cohabitation that had long been in place.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I Towards the Commune as State:1 Northern Italy in the Central Middle Ages

2 The City Commune and the Assumption of a Public Role

3 Experimentation and Conceptualization in the Field of Urban Expansion and the Construction of Territory

4 The Political Cultures of the City and the Territory

5 Some Cornerstones of City and Communal Ideology

6 Between unitas and aequalitas

7 The Ideologues of Communal Political Culture

8 The Experience of Personal Government between the Factions and the Popolo

9 Towards Conflict

10 The Political Cultures of the contado

11 Rural Communes and the Culture of Practices

Part II Towards The Regional State:1 New Scenarios, Old Questions

2 The Rise of Visconti Power

3 The Ideology of the Regional State

4 Law as a Field of Tension

5 The Duke and the Culture of Individual Distinction

6 The Territorial Aristocracies

7 The Foundations of Seigneurial Power in the Countryside

8 Guelphs and Ghibellines

9 ‘Pacta servanda sunt’

Concluding Note

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 26, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-255760-2

0-19-186286-X

0-19-255759-9