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.
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