"Medieval Italy" gathers together an unparalleled selection of
newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle
Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse
cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the
spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and the vernacular poetry
of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The texts highlight the
continuities with the medieval Latin West while simultaneously
emphasizing the ways in which Italy was exceptional, particularly
for its cities that drove Mediterranean trade, its new communal
forms of government, the impact of the papacy's temporal claims on
the central peninsula, and the richly textured religious life of
the mainland and its islands.A unique feature of this volume is its
incorporation of the southern part of the peninsula and Sicily--the
glittering Norman court at Palermo, the multicultural emporium of
the south, and the kingdoms of Frederick II--into a larger
narrative of Italian history. Including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and
Lombard sources, the documents speak in ethnically and religiously
differentiated voices, while providing wider chronological and
geographical coverage than previously available.Rich in
interdisciplinary texts and organized to enable the reader to focus
by specific region, topic, or period, this is a volume that will be
an essential resource for anyone with a professional or private
interest in the history, religion, literature, politics, and built
environment of Italy from ca. 1000 to 1400.
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