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The Italian City-State - From Commune to Signoria (Hardcover)
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The Italian City-State - From Commune to Signoria (Hardcover)
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Italy in the Middle Ages was unique among the countries of Europe
in recreating, in a changed environment, the urban civilization of
antiquity - the society, culture, and political formations of
city-states. This book examines the origins and nature of this
phenomenon from the fall of Rome to the eve of its consummation,
the Italian Renaissance. The explanation is sought in Italy's
singular `double existence' between two contrasted worlds - ancient
and medieval. The ancient was characterised by the total
predominance of the landed aristocracy in economy and society,
enforced through a peculiar system of city states embracing town
and country. The new medieval influences were marked by the
separation of town, country and aristocracy, by the identification
of towns with trade and a mercantile bourgeoisie, and by commercial
and proto-industrial revolution. Italy shared in both worlds. It
remained a land of cities and of an urbanized ruling class (except
in the Norman South) and re-established territorial city states;
but the staes were very different from those of antiquity, the city
leaders in the commercial revolution, and Italy itself seen as a
nation of shopkeepers, birthplace of capitalism. In this
fascinating and ground-breaking study, Philip Jones traces in
detail the tension and interaction between the two traditions,
civic and patrician, mercantile and bourgeois, through all phases
of Italian life to their culmination in two rival regimes of
communes and despots.
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