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The Italian renaissance state /
"This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and varie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop of wider political themes common to all types of state in the period. The authors address the contentious problem of the apparent weakness of the Italian Renaissance political system. By repositioning the Renaissance as a political, rather than simply an artistic and cultural phenomenon, they identify the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the state, in which political languages, practices and tools, together with political and governmental institutions, became vital to the evolution of a modern European political identity"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 634 pages) : 1 map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781780348315 1780348312 9780511845697 0511845693 9781139377072 1139377078 9781139379939 1139379933 1139375644 9781139375641 1139365959 9781139365956 1280647485 9781280647482 1139378503 9781139378505 9786613633538 6613633534 1139371657 9781139371650 |