دانلود کتاب Milan Undone: Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars

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A new history of how one of the Renaissance's preeminentcities lost its independence in the Italian Wars. In 1499,the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years.But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by theItalian Wars. As the major powers of Europe battled for supremacy,Milan, viewed by contemporaries as the "key to Italy," found itselfwracked by a tug-of-war between French claimants and its rulingSforza family. In just thirty years, the city endured nine changesof government before falling under three centuries of Habsburgdominion. John Gagn?? offers a new history of Milan's demise as asovereign state. His focus is not on the successive wars themselvesbut on the social disruption that resulted. Amid the politicalwhiplash, the structures of not only government but also daily lifebroke down. The very meanings of time, space, and dynasty-and theirimportance to political authority-were rewritten. While the feudalrelationships that formed the basis of property rights and the ruleof law were shattered, refugees spread across the region. Exilesplotted to claw back what they had lost. Milan Undone is arich and detailed story of harrowing events, but it is more thanthat. Gagn?? asks us to rethink the political legacy of theRenaissance: the cradle of the modern nation-state was also thedeathbed of one of its most sophisticated precursors. In its wakecame a kind of reversion-not self-rule but chaos and empir