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The Italian Renaissance State
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on the contributors
Note on translations and usage
Introduction
The Italian Renaissance State: two reasons for a title
Historiographical premises
Main themes
Structure of the book
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Italian states
1: The kingdom of Sicily
Introduction
Aragonese success and the role of the universitates
Economic policy and reconstituting the aristocratic framework
Demographic values
The crisis of royal power and the government of the vicars
The restoration of Martin I and the personal union of the crowns
The outcomes of the confrontation between king and country in the fifteenth century
Concluding remarks
2: The kingdom of Naples
Introduction
Anjou and Aragon: the 200-year war
The monarchy and local powers
The state machinery
The political and economic structure of the kingdom
The territory
Concluding remarks: the curse of the south
3: The kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica
Introduction
The Trecento: the birth of the kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica
The reign of Peter IV of Aragon and the long conflict with the giudici of Arborea
The value of a conquest
The Quattrocento: historical notes
Alfonso V and the economic renewal
Ferdinand II and the politics of redreç (reform)
Conclusion
4: The papal state
Introduction
Fluctuations of power
Administrative structures
Territorial organisation
The idea of power and the state
The peculiarities of the sovereign pontiff
Barons and apostolic vicars
Towns and cives ecclesiastici
Conclusion
5: Tuscan states: Florence and Siena
Introduction
Florence: from commune to respublica
Florence: power and government tested
Florence and the Medici
The Florentine politics of magnificence
An uncertain destiny
Siena: a different Renaissance?
Siena: a simple state
Sienas last century
Conclusion
6: Ferrara and Mantua
Introduction: the historiography
The dynasties and their territories
Three ways of looking at principalities
Mid-point summary
Offices and officials
Court and municipality
The contractual state
Conclusion
7: Venice and the Terraferma
Introduction: from 1300 to 1530
The city-state: myth and reality
The city-state: institutions and patrician politics
The regional state: similarities and differences
Definitions of dominion
Venetian policy and authority in the Terraferma
Local decision-making and power-holders in the Terraferma
Conclusion
8: Lombardy under the Visconti and the Sforza
Introduction
The apparatus of government and the role of the cities
A debated diarchy
The centre
Conclusion
9: The feudal principalities: the west (Monferrato, Saluzzo, Savoy and Savoy-Acaia)
Introduction: the importance of a definition
The structure of the territory
The local offices
The institutions of central government
Courtiers and officials
Relations with the country: statutes and assemblies of the Three Estates
Conclusion
10: The feudal principalities: the east (Trent, Bressanone/Brixen, Aquileia, Tyrol and Gorizia)
Introduction: the medieval background
`Pass-states´ or `frontier states´?
Delayed feudalisation
The fourteenth century: between the German empire and the Italian states
Conclusion: moving towards a new genealogy of power in the fifteenth century
11: Genoa
Introduction
`The absence of the state´
Political instability and commercial power
Public and private spheres
Conclusion
Part II: Themes and perspectives
12: The collapse of city-states and the role of urban centres in the new political geography of Renaissance Italy
Introduction
The collapse of the city-states
The separation of the contadi
The emergence of the oligarchies
The vitality of southern and Sicilian cities
Concluding remarks
13: The rural communities
Historiographical considerations
Renewed interest
Institutions
Identity
An interpretive hypothesis: the processes of communalisation in late medieval rural Italy
Chronologies
Resources
Services
Individual and collective identities
Territories
Outsiders
The Italy of rural communities
Conclusion
14: Lordships, fiefs and `small states´
Introduction
Lordships
Fiefs
`Small states´
Conclusion
15: Factions and parties: problems and perspectives
Introduction
Beyond evil and disorder
The `informal´ paradigm: agency and the individual
Rediscovering institutions: factions and government
Guelfs and Ghibellines: a resilient code for long-distance communication
Concluding remarks: developments
16: States, orders and social distinction
Introduction
City, state and the logic of distinction
The division of labour and corporations
Nobilities among the local ruling groups
Between learned reflection and common sense
Conclusion
17: Women and the state
Introduction
Property, or the state as the father
Government, or the state as a household
Protection, or the state as a surrogate family
Legitimacy and fiscality, or the moralising state
Concluding remarks: womens agency and the state
18: Offices and officials
Introduction
Kings´ and princes´ officials: from Sicily to Europe?
In the land of the communes: a general picture
In the land of communes: officials in republics and principalities
Communes, principalities, kingdoms: central and territorial officials
Administration, institutions and culture: some fifteenth-century transformations
Conclusion
19: Public written records
Introduction
Archives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Thirteenth-century archives in communal Italy
In Renaissance states: public archives in subject towns
Archives in capital cities: communal tradition and new functions – Florence and Venice
Signorie, principalities and kingdoms in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Relations between states: foreign policy and the archives of diplomacy
Circulation of models and imitation of practices on the periphery of states: the archives of minor centres, small seigneurial states and rural communities
Conclusion
20: The language of politics and the process of state-building: approaches and interpretations
Introduction
The language of politics: producers and matrices
The content of political language
Political language as a form of political action
Conclusion
21: Renaissance diplomacy
Introduction
Sources, chronology and geography
Conflicts, authority and legitimacy
Nature and forms of diplomatic assignments
Communication networks and political leagues
Practices and men
Laws, theories and tales
Conclusion
22: Regional states and economic development
Introduction
Commercial policy and development of the domestic market
Strategies of redistribution of productive activities on a regional scale
Support for manufacturing
Protection of technical innovation
Conclusion
23: The papacy and the Italian states
Introduction
Some `original characteristics´
From the Avignonese exile to the victory of the papacy over conciliarism
Rome, the `capital city´
The regional states
Local churches and the civic church
Concluding remarks: continuities and transformations in the early Cinquecento
24: Justice
Introduction
Communitary justice: conflicts, peaces and vendettas
Trials and procedures
Hegemonic justice: criminal law
Social control and public order
New judicial bodies
The pragmatic nature of judicial policies
Ruling with mercy, ruling with the gallows
Justice in the territorial states
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
1. The kingdom of Sicily (Fabrizio Titone)
2. The kingdom of Naples (Francesco Senatore)
3. The kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica (Olivetta Schena)
4. The papal state (Sandro Carocci)
5. Tuscan states: Florence and Siena (Lorenzo Tanzini)
6. Ferrara and Mantua (Trevor Dean)
7. Venice and the Terraferma (Michael Knapton)
8. Lombardy under the Visconti and the Sforza (Federico Del Tredici)
9. The feudal principalities: the west (Monferrato, Saluzzo, Savoy and Savoy-Acaia) (Alessandro Barbero)
10. The feudal principalities: the east (Trent, Bressanonel Brixen, Aquileia, Tyrol and Gorizia) (Marco Bellabarba)
11. Genoa (Christine Shaw)
12. The collapse of city-states and the role of urban centres inthe new political geography of Renaissance Italy (Francesco Somaini)
13. The rural communities (Massimo Della Misericordia)
14. Lordships, fiefs and ‘small states’ (Federica Cengarle)
15. Factions and parties: problems and perspectives (Marco Gentile)
16. States, orders and social distinction (E. Igor Mineo)
17. Women and the state (Serena Ferente)
18. Offices and officials (Guido Castelnuovo)
19. Public written records (Gian Maria Varanini)
20. The language of politics and the process of state-building: approaches and interpretations (Andrea Gamberini)
21. Renaissance diplomacy (Isabella Lazzarini)
22. Regional states and economic development (Franco Franceschi and Luca Molà )
23. The papacy and the Italian states (Giorgio Chittolini)
24. Justice (Andrea Zorzi)
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