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L'espace d'une cité : Sienne et la pays siennois
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ISBN: 2728303142 9782728303144 Year: 1995 Volume: 200

Siena and the Sienese in the thirteenth century
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ISBN: 052140312X 0521024692 0511097956 0511583869 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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This 1991 book portrays the life and institutions of a great medieval Italian city, Siena, through the surviving records and buildings of the period. Laws, council minutes, records of the commune's revenue and expenditure, wills and other charters from the thirteenth century are among the plentiful material which makes up the picture of the city republic's institutions and those who ran them. The main themes are the political institutions of the city, and the involvement of the citizens in them. The religion of the Sienese is also investigated. This is a portrait of a special, but not untypical, society which was engaged in an experiment in oligarchic self-government. Although the milieu was urban, Siena's bankers and tradesmen, craftsmen and those involved in transport and agricultural labour, were in many cases landowners: the city was dependent on and greatly involved with its rural environment. The precocity of the commune's governmental methods and the wealth of information that has survived mean that the medieval life of this famous and beautiful Tuscan city can be depicted in full and convincing detail.

Preaching friars and the civic ethos : Siena, 1380-1480
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ISBN: 1870059069 Year: 1992 Volume: Volume 7 Publisher: London University of London. Queen Mary and Westfield college

Popular government and oligarchy in Renaissance Italy
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ISSN: 09285520 ISBN: 9789004153110 900415311X 9786611400101 1281400106 9047410629 9789047410621 9781281400109 6611400109 Year: 2006 Volume: v. 66 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This book is an examination of the nature of the governments of towns and cities, great and small, in Renaissance Italy, and of why oligarchic regimes were becoming increasingly prevalent. Themes and questions arising from a case-study of the dramatic changes in the government of fifteenth-century Siena form the basis for the analysis of popular government and oligarchy throughout Italy, from Piedmont and the Veneto to Sicily, and of how they were shaped by social change, institutional developments and external threats and pressures, especially war. In a field dominated by local studies, this comparative approach provides a fresh understanding of the important problem of how and why broadly-based governments were losing ground to oligarchy throughout Italy.

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