Florentine Tuscany
Subtitle: Structures and Practices of Power (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture)
Contributors: William J. Connell (Editor); Andrea Zorzi (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780521548007
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Political science & theory; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Italy; Europe - Italy; History / Europe / General; History / Italy; Tuscany (Italy)--Politics and government--143; Tuscany (Italy)--Politics and government--1434-1737; Europe - General
First sentence: It was in 1986 that Gian Maria Varanini invited historians, in their study of the Italian territorial states, to look beyond the phase of 'accomplished stability' to a 'prehistory' in which the characteristic practices of these states took shape.