This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of
sources yet to treat the city of Naples from late antiquity to the
beginning of the Renaissance. Sources are drawn from its
historical, economic, literary, artistic, religious and cultural
life from the fall of Rome through the Byzantine, ducal, Norman,
Hohenstaufen and Angevin periods. The Introduction offers a
comprehensive survey of the periods covered, with a discussion of
the historiography and of important research and interpretive
issues. These include the material development of the city from
late antiquity through the end of the Angevin period, the condition
and use of the available primary sources and archaeological
evidence, with particular attention given to the wide variety of
recent excavations and of archival materials, the question of the
ruralization and recovery of its urban core through the little
known ducal period, Naples' importance as a commercial and
political capital, its developing economic and material base, and
the issue of its relationship to its hinterland on the one hand and
to broader Mediterranean contexts on the other. It also surveys
changes in Naples' urban plan, its walls, fortifications and port
and its commercial and residential development. For the later
Middle Ages, Musto traces Naples' intellectual life and the complex
historiography of what he terms the "black legend of the Angevins"
and its continued impact on perceptions of Naples and the Italian
South. Documents include chronicles and histories; archival
materials, accounts, financial and commercial records, contracts,
wills, notarial and legislative documents; poetry, romances,
biographies, letters, travelers' accounts and legends; liturgical
and hagiographical texts; as well as examples of manuscript
production and illustration, painting and architecture. 460 pages.
Preface, introduction, notes and bibliography; appendices,
including the Tavola Strozzi with key, Map of Medieval Naples with
thumbnail key; index. 82 readings, 74 b&w figures, plus 60
thumbnail images. Links to online resources from A Documentary
History of Naples, including image galleries with over 460
additional images in full color; and to full bibliographies with
ongoing supplements.
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