Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of Jacopo da Varagine''s
Chronicle of the city of Genoa. It broadens the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life, providing an engaging introduction to medieval Genoa, civic culture, Dominican composition and the ''historical Jacopo''.
Trade Review'Carrie Bene?s’s translation of the Chronica Civitatis Ianuensis ab origine urbis usque ad annum MCCXCVII makes accessible to an English audience a valuable first hand account of a major Mediterranean trading center by a leading churchman…Bene?s’s scholarship shows singular purpose and ambition of great value to Mediterranean studies.'
Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies volume 98, number 1
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Jacopo da Varagine, Chronicle of the city of Genoa
Prologue
Part one: On the foundation of Genoa
Part two: On the early history of Genoa
Part three: On the name of Genoa
Part four: On the Christianisation of Genoa
Part five: On the growth of the city
Part six: On government
Part seven: On rulers
Part eight: On citizenship
Part nine: On domestic life
Part ten: On the Genoese church
Part eleven: The history of Genoa under the bishops
Part twelve: The history of Genoa under the archbishops
Appendix
Index