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Popular protest and ideals of democracy in late renaissance Italy / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social movements--Italy.
- Social movements.
- Protest movements.
- Italy--Social conditions.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This study to analyses popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on a vast range of contemporary documents, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. places these incidents of popular protest and their patterns in comparative perspectives.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures, Charts, and Maps
- List of Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction: Questions and Sources
- Questions
- Sources
- Key Words: Revolt and Popolo
- The Databases
- Prologue: Decline in Popular Revolt in Fifteenth-Century
- Part I: Differences
- 1: Chants and Flags
- Chants
- Flags
- 2: Prices and Crises
- Conjuncture
- Grain Riots
- Success in Revolting
- 3: Women
- As Pictured by Chroniclers
- Celebrations
- Religious Movements
- Political Movements
- The Popolo's Defence of Women
- Women as Rebels
- Beyond Supporting Roles
- 4: Shopkeepers and Soldiers
- Shopkeepers
- Processions
- Cross-Class Alliances
- Mutinies of Soldiers
- Part II: Convergences
- 5: Varieties of Protest: (i) Peasants, Alliances, Economics, Religion
- Peasant Protests
- City-Country Alliances
- 'Economic' Protests
- Religious Revolts: Anti-Semitic Violence
- Peace Movements and Further Religious Protest
- 6: Varieties of Revolt (ii): Leaders, Hate, Nobles, Ritual, Children, the Popolo
- Leaders
- Hate
- Revolts against Nobilities
- Ritual
- Children and Adolescents
- The Popolo Minuto
- Revolts of the Popolo
- Part III: Democracy
- 7: Ideals of Representation
- Cries of Libertà
- Revolts of Democracy
- (a) Elections
- (b) Parlamenti
- (c) Statutes 'Capitoli'
- (d) Revolts for Representation
- 8: Equality
- Collective Supplications
- Natural Disasters?
- Expressions of Equality and Inequality
- Exemptions
- Notions of Equality Compared
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780191944598
- 0191944599
- 9780192666086
- 0192666088
- 9780192666079
- 019266607X
- OCLC:
- 1289366994
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