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This 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''.

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'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 Contents

Introduction
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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 10/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719099403, 978-0719099403
      ISBN10: 0719099404

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      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

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