Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405 - Hardcover

Kohl, Dr. Benjamin G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801857031 ISBN 13: 9780801857034

Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

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Book by Kohl Dr Benjamin G

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Críticas:

"A richly detailed portrait of the rise and decline of the Carrara lordship across three distinct periods... Essential reading for all scholars of Renaissance Italy." -- Maureen F. Mazzaoui, Sixteenth Century Journal

"Kohl's book will greatly help historians of late medieval Italy understand the way that force, popular approval, humanistic propaganda, ceremonial inauguration and links to outside protectors such as Venice or the German Empire could all be put to excellent use in presenting the signore as the saviour of the city... To say that a better title might have been The Carrara and Italy is not to disparage this splendid book, but to emphasize its wider importance for the study of Italian despotism, for Venetian history and for the understanding of the intricate web of alliances and counter-alliances which brought the Carrara to power, and in the end brought their annihilation." -- David Abulafia, Times Literary Supplement

"Copiously documented and solidly researched." -- John K. Brackett, Speculum

"Based on all the known archival, manuscript, and printed sources, this is an excellent, detailed political narrative of a late-medieval Italian city-state." -- Choice

Reseña del editor:

The product of years of archival research, this magisterial account is the first major work on the Carrara of Padua in more than a century and the first detailed study of an early Italian signorial regime ever published.

Benjamin G. Kohl begins by describing Padua's late medieval setting, exploring the geographic and institutional givens inherited by the early Carrara lords as they fought to maintain their city's independence. He then offers a detailed analysis of the Carrara's century-long relationship with their powerful neighbor, Venice -- sometimes protector and sometimes nemesis. Kohl shows how the Carrara, emboldened by new mid-century alliances with the Holy Roman Emporer and the King of Hungary, tried to carve out a large territorial state in northeast Italy, thereby directly challenging Venice's vital interests. In fighting for the city's survival, the Carrara lords revitalized the city's government and stabilized ties with other elite Paduan families to form a unified society. Yet in the end, Padua succumbed to Venice's overwhelming power.

Kohl also examines the changing composition of the Carrara family relationships, the regime's household government, its economic and landed interests, investments in textiles and trade, and the development of its own mint and tax system. By providing a nuanced view of the growth of state power in the hands of a single dynasty, Kohl lays to rest the received notion of the lawless Renaissance despot. Enriched with illustrations from contemporary frescoes, architectural monuments, manuscripts, and maps, this important study will set the terms for all future discussion of the nature of the late medieval Italian dynastic state.

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• Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0801857031
• ISBN 13: 9780801857034
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496