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The Logic of Political Conflict in Medieval Cities - Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370-1440 (Hardcover)
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The Logic of Political Conflict in Medieval Cities - Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370-1440 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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This volume traces the logic of urban political conflict in late
medieval Europe's most heavily urbanized regions, Italy and the
Southern Low Countries. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are
often associated with the increasing consolidation of states, but
at the same time they also saw high levels of political conflict
and revolt in cities that themselves were a lasting heritage of
this period. In often radically different ways, conflict
constituted a crucial part of political life in the six cities
studied for this book: Bologna, Florence, and Verona, as well as
Liege, Lille, and Tournai. The Logic of Political Conflict in
Medieval Cities argues that such conflicts, rather than subverting
ordinary political life, were essential features of the political
systems that developed in cities. Conflicts were embedded in a
polycentric political order characterized by multiple political
units and bases of organization, ranging from guilds to external
agencies. In this multi-faceted and shifting context, late medieval
city dwellers developed particular strategies of legitimating
conflict, diverse modes of behaviour, and various forms of
association through which conflict could be addressed. At the same
time, different configurations of these political units gave rise
to specific systems of conflict which varied from city to city.
Across all these cities, conflict lay at the basis of a distinct
form of political organization-and represents the nodal point
around which this political and social history of cities is
written.
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