The Mountains and the City - The Tuscan Appennines in the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1988
First published:	March 1988
Authors:	C.J. Wickham (Lecturer in Medieval History)
Dimensions:	225 x 146 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	468
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-821966-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Promotions
LSN:	0-19-821966-0
Barcode:	9780198219668

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