A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575

Informationen zum Autor John M. Najemy is Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 (1993) and Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400 (1982). For the former he won the Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies and for the latter the Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association. He has also edited Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 (2004). Klappentext Florence during the Renaissance is famously known as the center for the rebirth of scholarship, literature, and the arts. But it was also an autonomous republic, a site of innovative experiments in government, a major economic power that produced great wealth and yet underwent recurrent fiscal crises, and a locus of conflicts among the elite families, the guild community, and the working classes, and between family-based factions grounded in patronage and private power. In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major phases of Florentine history from 1200 to 1575, including the formation of the elite of great families, the rise of the guild-based "popolo" and the guild republic of the 1290s, the crisis of the 1340s, the revolutions of 1378-82, the wars against Milan, the fiscal crisis of the 1420-30s, the rise and fall of the Medici regime, the republican revival in the age of Savonarola and Machiavelli, and the drama of the last republic of 1527-30 and subsequent emergence of the principate. His account weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments, capturing Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic and finally into a princely and territorial state. Based on the mass of scholarship on Florentine history, and on a first-hand understanding and close reading of the primary sources, Najemy provides an original interpretation of Florentine history that will appeal to scholars and general readers for years to come. Zusammenfassung In this history of Florence! distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations. List of Maps. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The Elite Families. Lineages. Knighthood and Feuds. Political Alignments and Factions. Culture and Religion. 2. The Popolo. Definitions. Guilds. Culture and Education: Notaries. Religion. Critique of Elite Misrule. 3. Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo. Before 1250. Primo Popolo. Angevin Alliance. Priorate of the Guilds. Second Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice. Elite Resurgence: Black and White Guelfs. 4. Domestic Economy and Merchant Empires to 1340. Population: City and Contado. Textiles! Building! and Provisioning. Merchant Companies and the Mercanzia. Taxation and Public Finances. 5. The Fourteenth-Century Dialogue of Power. Elite Dominance! 1310-40. Crisis of the 1340s and the Third Popular Government. Funded Public Debt and Bankruptcies. Elite Recovery and Popular Reaction. War against the Church. 6. Revolution and Realignment. Workers' Economic Conditions. The Ciompi Revolution. The Last Guild Government. Counterrevolution. Fear of the Working Classes. Consensus Politics. 7. War! Territorial Expansion! and the Transformation of Political Discourse. First Visconti Wars. Territorial Dominion: The Conquest of Pisa. Civic Humanism. The Civic Family. 8. Family and State in the Age of Consensus. The Family Imaginary. Households! Marriage! Dowries. Women! Property! Inheritance. Children! Hospitals! Charity. Policing Sodomy. 9. Fateful Embrace: The Emergence of the Medici. A New Style of Leadership. Fiscal Crisis and the Catasto. Cosimo's Money and Friends. Showdown. 10. The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict....

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John M. Najemy is Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 (1993) and Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400 (1982). For the former he won the Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies and for the latter the Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association. He has also edited Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 (2004).

Klappentext
Florence during the Renaissance is famously known as the center for the rebirth of scholarship, literature, and the arts. But it was also an autonomous republic, a site of innovative experiments in government, a major economic power that produced great wealth and yet underwent recurrent fiscal crises, and a locus of conflicts among the elite families, the guild community, and the working classes, and between family-based factions grounded in patronage and private power. In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major phases of Florentine history from 1200 to 1575, including the formation of the elite of great families, the rise of the guild-based "popolo" and the guild republic of the 1290s, the crisis of the 1340s, the revolutions of 1378-82, the wars against Milan, the fiscal crisis of the 1420-30s, the rise and fall of the Medici regime, the republican revival in the age of Savonarola and Machiavelli, and the drama of the last republic of 1527-30 and subsequent emergence of the principate. His account weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments, capturing Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic and finally into a princely and territorial state. Based on the mass of scholarship on Florentine history, and on a first-hand understanding and close reading of the primary sources, Najemy provides an original interpretation of Florentine history that will appeal to scholars and general readers for years to come.

Zusammenfassung
In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations.List of Maps.Acknowledgments.Introduction.1. The Elite Families.Lineages.Knighthood and Feuds.Political Alignments and Factions.Culture and Religion.2. The Popolo.Definitions.Guilds.Culture and Education: Notaries.Religion.Critique of Elite Misrule.3. Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo.Before 1250.Primo Popolo.Angevin Alliance.Priorate of the Guilds.Second Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice.Elite Resurgence: Black and White Guelfs.4. Domestic Economy and Merchant Empires to 1340.Population: City and Contado.Textiles, Building, and Provisioning.Merchant Companies and the Mercanzia.Taxation and Public Finances.5. The Fourteenth-Century Dialogue of Power.Elite Dominance, 1310-40.Crisis of the 1340s and the Third Popular Government.Funded Public Debt and Bankruptcies.Elite Recovery and Popular Reaction.War against the Church.6. Revolution and Realignment.Workers' Economic Conditions.The Ciompi Revolution.The Last Guild Government.Counterrevolution.Fear of the Working Classes.Consensus Politics.7. War, Territorial Expansion, and the Transformation of Political Discourse.First Visconti Wars.Territorial Dominion: The Conquest of Pisa.Civic Humanism.The Civic Family.8. Family and State in the Age of Consensus.The Family Imaginary.Households, Marriage, Dowries.Women, Property, Inheritance.Children, Hospitals, Charity.Policing Sodomy.9. Fateful Embrace: The Emergence of the Medici.A New Style of Leadership.Fiscal Crisis and the Catasto.Cosimo's Money and Friends.Showdown.10. The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict.Part I: Cosimo and Piero.Institutional Controls.External Supports: Papacy and Sforza Milan.Cosimo's Coup.The Ottimati Challe…

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