Absolutism in Renaissance Milan
Subtitle: plenitude of power under the Visconti and the Sforza, 1329-1535
By: Jane Black.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780199565290
Subjects: Visconti family; Sforza family; Renaissance -- Italy -- Milan; Power (Social sciences) -- Italy -- Milan -- History -- To 1500; Authoritarianism -- Italy -- Milan -- History -- To 1500; Law -- Italy -- Milan -- History -- To 1500; Duchies -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; Milan (Italy) -- History -- To 1535; Milan (Italy) -- Politics and government; Milan (Italy) -- Social conditions
Description: Jane Black shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was seized, exploited, and eventually relinquished, by the ruling Milanese dynasties. Lawyers supported the free use of absolute power at first, but both sides realised that society could not function unless property and other rights were respected.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rulers of Milan, 1287-1535; title: Plenitude of power : absolutism in the Middle Ages; title: The early Visconti and the claim to plenitude of power; title: Giangaleazzo's investiture and its legacy; title: Lawyers and the absolute powers of the duke; title: Plenitude of power in practice : preserving justice while infringing rights; title: Lawyers and the repudiation of ducal absolutism; title: The surrender of absolute power in Milan; title: Appendix 1: Certa scientia, non obstante, motu proprio; title: Appendix 2: Plenitude of power and iura reservata.