TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Christine
TI  - Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy
T2  - The Medieval Mediterranean
SN  - 9789047410621
AV  - DG533 
U1  - 320.945/5809024 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Local government
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - Oligarchy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- Part I -- Chapter One Popular government in Siena -- Chapter Two Challenge and response -- Chapter Three Making the nobles unwelcome -- Chapter Four Radical popular government and its discontents -- Chapter Five An insecure oligarchy -- Chapter Six Towards a signoria -- Part II -- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter Seven Popular government -- Chapter Eight Oligarchy -- Chapter Nine Striking a balance -- Chapter Ten Popular government under pressure -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Archival and Manuscript Sources -- Bibliography
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047410621
ER  -