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Popular protest and ideals of democracy in late renaissance Italy / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

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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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