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Long neglected by scholars, medieval and Renaissance Bologna is now recognized as a center of economic, political-constitutional, legal, and intellectual innovation, as the city that served as the cultural crossroads of Italy. The city's distinctive achievements and its transition from medieval commune to second largest city of the Renaissance Papal State is illuminated by essays that present the work of current historians, many made available in English for the first time, from the broadest possible perspective: from the material city with its porticoes, the conflicts that brought bloodshed and turmoil to its streets, the disputations of masters and students, and to the masterpieces of artists who laid the foundations for Baroque art. See inside the book.

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Author:   Sarah R. Blanshei
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   14
Weight:   1.136kg
ISBN:  

9789004353480

ISBN 10:   9004353488
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   01 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction: History and Historiography of Bologna â Sarah Rubin Blanshei 1 Archival Sources: Governmental, Judicial, Religious, Familial â Diana Tura 2 Fiscal Sources: the Estimi â Rosa Smurra 3 Shaping the City: Urban Planning and Physical Structures â Francesca Bocchi 4 Public Health â G. Geltner 5 Regulating the Material Culture of Bologna la Grassa â Antonella Campanini 6 Economy and Demography â Fabio Giusberti and Francesca Roversi Monaco 7 Bankers, Financial Institutions, and Politics â Massimo Giansante 8 Civic Institutions (12th-early 15th Centuries) â Giorgio Tamba 9 From One Conflict to Another (13th-14th Centuries) â Giuliano Milani 10 Libertas, Oligarchy, Papacy: Government in the Quattrocento â Tommaso Duranti 11 Popular Government, Government of the Ottimati, and the Languages of Politics: Concord and Discord (1377-1559) â Angela De Benedictis 12 Making of an Oligarchy: The Ruling Classes of Bologna â Andrea Gardi 13 Criminal Justice and Conflict Resolution â Sarah Rubin Blanshei and Sara Cucini 14 The Church, Civic Religion, and Civic Identity â Gabriella Zarri 15 Confraternities and Civil Society â Nicholas Terpstra 16 Mendicant Orders and the Repression of Heresy â Riccardo Parmeggiani 17 The University and the City: Cultural Interactions â David A. Lines 18 Bolognese Vernacular Language and Literature â Armando Antonelli and Vincenzo Cassi 19 Literary Culture in Bologna from the Duecento to the Cinquecento â Gian Mario Anselmi and Stefano Scioli 20 Miniaturists, Painters, and Goldsmiths (mid-13th-early 15th Century) â Raffaella Pini 21 Art and Patronage in Bologna's Long Quattrocento â David J. Drogin General Bibliography Index

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This hefty volume is comprised of twenty-one essays of diverse lengths, most of them written by Italian scholars whose work appears here in English for the first time . [...] Sarah Rubin Blanshei's introduction provides a valuable overview of historical writings on Bologna, from the medieval chronicle tradition to modern historiography, which has only recently begun venturing beyond the fourteenth century in a meaningful and systematic way. It also offers a compelling summary of the current state of the field, which this ambitious publication competently synthesizes and broadens.[...] This rich and varied collection of essays on the history of medieval and Renaissance Bologna succeeds in its goal as a companion -it offers a great deal to a novice and an expert alike, and it can lend itself extremely well to undergraduate teaching. Especially useful for students will be the engagement with archival and other primary sources demonstrated in many of the essays, as well as their methodological range; also valuable will be the individual bibliographies that accompany each essay, in addition to the comprehensive bibliography and a detailed index at the end of the volume . Nadja Aksamija, in Renaissance Quarterly, 73 (1), pp.284-285.

Author Information

Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Ph.D (1970), is Dean of the College and Professor of History Emerita at Agnes Scott College. Her major publications include Perugia, 1260-1340: Conflict and Change in a Medieval Italian Urban Society (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1976) and Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna (Brill, 2010).

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