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Book SynopsisIn the 1290s a new guild-based Florentine government placed a group of noble families under severe legal restraints, on the grounds that they were both the most powerful and the most violent and disruptive element in the city. In this colorful portrayal of civic life in medieval Florence, Carol Lansing explores the patrilineal structure and functio
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES, pg. ix*PREFACE, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xv*ONE. Introduction: The Medieval Florentine Nobles, pg. 3*TWO. The Formation of Urban Lineages, pg. 29*THREE. Joint Lineage Property: An Overview, pg. 46*FOUR. Ecclesiastical Rights as Joint Property, pg. 64*FIVE. Joint Property: Towers and Palaces, pg. 84*SIX. Disaffection from the Lineage: Umiliana dei Cerchi and the Cathars, pg. 109*SEVEN. Women Within the Lineage, pg. 125*EIGHT. Knighthood and Courtly Style, pg. 145*NINE. Violence and Faction, pg. 164*TEN. The Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice, pg. 192*ELEVEN. The Debate Over True Nobility, pg. 212*TWELVE. The Magnates in the Early Fourteenth Century, pg. 229*APPENDIX I. List of the Magnates, pg. 239*APPENDIX II. A Note on Coinage, pg. 243*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 245*INDEX, pg. 259
