Christine Shaw

Reason and Experience in Renaissance Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in practice. This wide-ranging comparative survey showcases the variety of political thinking across all five Italian republics, Florence, Venice, Genoa, Siena and Lucca, as well as princes and signori.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781108958134
• ISBN-10: 1108958133
• Artikelnr.: 68886294

Autorenporträt

Christine Shaw has published extensively on the political society of Renaissance Italy, including Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy (2015), Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy (2006) and The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reason and Experience
1. Union, faction and political participation
2. Sharing in office, sharing in power
3. Supreme authority and executive power
4. Public finances and private interests
5. A well-ordered republic
6. The legitimacy of princely rule
7. Libertà and the community of Italian powers
8. Practice and theory
Conclusion: Republics and Signorie.