Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754665083)

Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

Author: John E. Law
ISBN-10: 0754665089
ISBN-13: 9780754665083
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2010
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 144