Creating the florentine state
Subtitle: peasants and rebellion, 1348-1434
By: Samuel K. Cohn, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Peasant uprisings -- Italy -- Florence Region -- History; Social conflict -- Italy -- Florence Region -- History; Social change -- Italy -- Florence Region -- History; Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- To 1421; Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737
Description: "This book offers a new approach to the study of the political history of the Renaissance: its analysis of government is embedded in the context of geography and social conflict. Instead of the usual institutional history, it examines the Florentine state from the mountainous periphery - a periphery both of geography and class - where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation." "Yet, far from being acted upon, Florence's highlanders were instrumental in changing the attitudes of the Florentine ruling class."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-296) and index