Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State - Couverture rigide

Grubb, James S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801836131 ISBN 13 : 9780801836138

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Originally published in 1988. In the decades after 1404, traditionally maritime Venice extended its control over much of northern Italy. Citizens of Vicenza, the first city to come under Venetian rule, proclaimed their city "firstborn of Venice" and a model for the Venetian Republic's dominions on the terraferma.

In Firstborn of Venice James Grubb tests commonplace attributes of the Renaissance state through a rich case study of society and politics in fifteenth-century Vicenza. Looking at relations between Venetian and local governments and at the location of power in Vicentine society, Grubb reveals the structural limitations of Venetian authority and the mechanisms by which local patricians deflected the claims of the capital. Firstborn of Venice explores issues that are political in the broadest sense: legal institutions and administrative practices, fiscal politics, the consolidation of elites, ecclesiastical management, and the contrasting governing ideologies of ruler and subjects.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James S. Grubb is professor of history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is the author of Provincial Families in the Renaissance, also available form Johns Hopkins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801836131
• ISBN 13: 9780801836138
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266
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