{"product_id":"beyond-florence-9780804739351","title":"Beyond Florence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405540335959,"sku":"9780804739351","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804739351.jpg?v=1730492774","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-florence-9780804739351","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}