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Book SynopsisMoving beyond the long-dominant emphasis on Florence, this book explores the diversity of Italian urban and provincial life from the 11th through the 17th centuries. A group of 16 urban social, religious, and economic historians present essays that reflect this shift and illustrate some of the significant new research directions of the field.
Trade Review“The quality of the individual essays is extraordinarily high, representative of the very best work being done in this field. The volume provides a model for the comparative study of Italian culture.”—James Hankins, Harvard University
Table of ContentsPART ONE. FLORENCE, ITALY, AND THE RENAISSANCE I 1 Florence Redux 5 Gene Brucker 2 In and Out of Florence 13 Paula Findlen PART TWO. CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE 29 3 The Other Florence Within Florence 33 Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 4 A World of Its Own: Economy, Society, and Religious Life in the Tuscan Mugello at the Time of Dante 45 George Dameron 5 The Country Parish at Late Medieval Lucca 59 Duane J. Osheim 6 "Do Not Say That This Is a Man from Assisi" 72 Robert Brentano PART THREE. LAW AND SOCIETY 8I 7 Concubines, Lovers, Prostitutes: Infamy and Female Identity in Medieval Bologna 8 5 Carol Lansing 8 Lost Faith: A Roman Prosecutor Reflects on Notaries' Crimes IO1 Laurie Nussdorfer PART FOUR. URBAN AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES I15 9 Pilgrim-Tourism in Late Medieval Venice I19 Robert C. Davis 10 The Hermit Returns: Sanctity and the City in the March of Ancona 133 Robert L. Cooper 11 In the Shop of the Lord: Bernardino of Siena and Popular Devotion I47 Cynthia L. Polecritti 12 "Angels of Peace": The Social Drama of the Jesuit Mission in Early Modern Southern Italy i60 Jennifer D. Selwyn PART FIVE. TOPOGRAPHIES OF POWER 177 13 Topographies of Power in the Urban Centers of Medieval Italy: Communes, Bishops, and Public Authority 181 Maureen C. Miller 14 In Search of the Quiet City: Civic Identity and Papal State Building in Fourteenth-Century Orvieto I90 David Foote 15 Back to the Future: Remaking the Commune in Ducal Modena 205 Michelle M. Fontaine 16 The Spanish Foundations of Late Renaissance and Baroque Rome 2I9 Thomas Dandelet AFTERWORD Where Is Beyond Florence? 233 Randolph Starn Notes 243 Bibliography 283 Index 3I5
