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Beyond Florence - The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy (Paperback, REV)
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Beyond Florence - The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy (Paperback, REV)
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For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and
early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence-as a
city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past
few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond the
"Florentine model" to explore the diversity of Italian urban and
provincial life-the "many Italies" that stretched from the
Apennines to the Mediterranean. This volume brings together a group
of sixteen urban, social, religious, and economic historians of
late medieval and early modern Italy whose work reflects this
shift, and illustrates some of the significant new research
directions of the field. At the volume's core are questions
important to all historians of late medieval and early modern
Europe: What does the new work on Italy beyond Florence have to say
about the traditional definition of the Renaissance, a definition
that made Florence its paradigmatic expression? What new questions
about the period in general have emerged as a result of decentering
the Renaissance? How has the effort to view Florence in a wider set
of Italian and Mediterranean political and economic networks shed
new light on the history of city states? And how has this work led
to a reexamination of the continuities connecting the late medieval
world to the early modern period? In exploring the contours of
Italy from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the
volume creates a landscape against which to evaluate the current
state of Florentine studies, the resurgence of Venetian studies,
the renewed interest in Italy under Spanish rule, and the
development of many other regional and local histories that are
increasingly used by scholars to facilitate a broader understanding
of Italy as a whole.
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