The Virtues of Economy: Governance, Power, and Piety in Late Medieval Rome

by James A. Palmer

The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging this view, James A. Palmer argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle Ages, with profound and lasting implications for city's subsequent development. The Virtues of Economy examines the transformation of Rome's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150174237X
• ISBN13: 9781501742378
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher