The Italian City-State (from Commune to Signoria)

by Philip J. Jones

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 urbanity--the 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198225857
• ISBN13: 9780198225850
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"