Authors: Philip J. Jones, P. J. Jones
ISBN-13: 9780198225850, ISBN-10: 0198225857
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: July 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Brasenose College, Oxford
This book studies the history, unique in Europe, of the Renaissance and renascences in medieval Italy: the extraordinary revival, in a profoundly altered economic and social environment, of antique urbanitythe civilization and culture of city states. The paradox arose from a peculiar situation, a "double existence" part ancient, part medieval, that made Italy a singular combination of both social and cultural renaissance, and economic, capitalist revolution. In this fascinating and groundbreaking study, Philip Jones traces in detail the tension and interaction between the two traditions to their culmination in two rival regimes of communes and despots.
1 | Renaissances and Revolutions: Europe and Italy between Antiquity and Middle Ages | 1 |
2 | From Civitas to Commune, 500-1100 | 55 |
3 | From Commune to Signoria, 1100-1300: I. Commercial Revolution, Trends and Counter-trends | 152 |
4 | From Commune to Signoria: II. Political Revolution, Crisis and Reaction | 333 |
Bibliography | 651 | |
Index | 675 |