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The mountains and the city : the Tuscan Appennines in the early Middle Ages / C.J. Wickham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wickham, Chris, 1950-
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (Italy)--Social conditions.
- Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (Italy).
- Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (Italy)--Economic conditions.
- Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (Italy)--History.
- Casentino Valley (Italy)--History.
- Casentino Valley (Italy).
- Casentino Valley (Italy)--Social conditions.
- Casentino Valley (Italy)--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 427 p. ) maps ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Mountains and the City
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work is the winner of the American Historical Association Marraro Prize, 1988. "The Mountains and the City" is a rare discussion in English of the history of a region of Europe, a genre common in other countries but undeveloped in Britain. The book deals with two mountain valleys in Tuscany from the eight to the twelfth century, with some examination of their future progress into the sixteenth. It charts their internal social and economic development and their links with the emerging world of the Italian city states. The importance of the book is in its stress on the small-scale society of the mountains; on the relation of local society to its geographical environment; and, above all, in its concern to see society from below, through the activities of local people, rather than through the interests of their masters. In its focus on local interaction, this is one of the few anthropological studies of medieval history that has yet been written.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliography (p. [392]-409) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781280806360
- 1280806362
- OCLC:
- 1027198680
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb00505 hdl
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