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A Medieval Italian Commune
Author: William M. Bowsky
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 0520328558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena
Author: TimothyB. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1351575589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, contributors explore the evolving relationship between image and politics in Siena from the time of the city-state's defeat of Florence at the Battle of Montaperti in 1260 to the end of the Sienese Republic in 1550. Engaging issues of the politicization of art in Sienese painting, sculpture, architecture, and urban design, the volume challenges the still-prevalent myth of Siena's cultural and artistic conservatism after the mid fourteenth century. Clearly establishing uniquely Sienese artistic agendas and vocabulary, these essays broaden our understanding of the intersection of art, politics, and religion in Siena by revisiting its medieval origins and exploring its continuing role in the Renaissance.
A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-01-11
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9004444823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena introduces the once-powerful commune to a wider audience. Edited by Santa Casciani and Heather Richardson Hayton, this collection explores how Siena built a distinctive civic identity and institutions that endured for centuries.
Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Author: John E. Law
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1351950355
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.
History of Universities
Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-12-18
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0199550328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume XXIII/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. It offers a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.
The Benefits of Peace: Private Peacemaking in Late Medieval Italy
Author: Glenn Kumhera
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9004341110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Benefits of Peace Glenn Kumhera offers the first comprehensive examination of private peacemaking in late medieval Italy, from its critical role in criminal justice to what it reveals about honor, vengeance, gender, preaching and reconciliation.
Humanism, Universities, and Jesuit Education in Late Renaissance Italy
Author: Paul F. Grendler
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-05-02
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9004510281
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An authoritative account of the intellectual and educational history of the late Italian Renaissance. Twenty essays on major themes, institutions, and persons of the Italian Renaissance by one of its most distinguished living historians.
A History of Siena
Author: Mario Ascheri
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1351866788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena’s history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city. Well informed by archival research and recent scholarship on medieval Siena and the Italian city-states, this book places Siena’s development in its larger context, both temporally and geographically. In the process, this book offers new interpretations of Siena’s artistic, political, and economic development, highlighting in particular the role of pilgrimage, banking, and class conflict. The second half of the book provides an important analysis of the historical development of Siena’s nobility, its unique system of neighborhood associations (contrade) and the race of the Palio, as well as an overview of the rise and fall of Siena’s troubled bank, the Monte dei Paschi. This book is accessible to undergraduates and tourists, while also offering plenty of new insights for graduate students and scholars of all periods of Sienese history.
Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1260-1555
Author: Diana Norman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780300099331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The city of Siena, one of Italy's major artistic centers, was home to many celebrated painters, among them Duccio, Simone Martini, Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, Sassetta and Beccafumi. This generously illustrated book provides a survey of Sienese painting from 1260 to 1555, an era of extraordinary artistic creativity in the Tuscan city. Art historian Diana Norman addresses the style and artistic technique of Sienese painters throughout the three centuries and explores why paintings were made, where they were originally seen, and how they were used and enjoyed by their audiences. The book focuses on works of art made for Siena itself, many of which are still to be seen within the city. Norman organizes the discussion around types of commissions and throughout the book situates the paintings within the context of the political, social, and religious circumstances of late medieval and renaissance Siena.
