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Long neglected by scholars, medieval and Renaissance Bologna is now recognized as a center of economic, political-constitutional, legal, and intellectual innovation, as the city that served as the cultural crossroads of Italy. The city’s distinctive achievements and its transition from medieval commune to second largest city of the Renaissance Papal State is illuminated by essays that present the work of current historians, many made available in English for the first time, from the broadest possible perspective: from the material city with its porticoes, the conflicts that brought bloodshed and turmoil to its streets, the disputations of masters and students, and to the masterpieces of artists who laid the foundations for Baroque art.
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Price: $330.00
Pages: 624
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to European History
Publication Date:
01 December 2017
ISBN: 9789004353480
Format: Hardcover
"This hefty volume is comprised of twenty-one essays of diverse lengths, most of them written by Italian scholars whose work appears here in English for the first time". [...] Sarah Rubin Blanshei’s introduction provides a valuable overview of historical writings
on Bologna, from the medieval chronicle tradition to modern historiography, which has only recently begun venturing beyond the fourteenth century in a meaningful
and systematic way. It also offers a compelling summary of the current state of the field, which this ambitious publication competently synthesizes and broadens.[...] This rich and varied collection of essays on the history of medieval and Renaissance Bologna succeeds in its goal as a “companion”—it offers a great deal to a novice and an expert alike, and it can lend itself extremely well to undergraduate teaching. Especially useful for students will be the engagement with archival and other primary sources demonstrated
in many of the essays, as well as their methodological range; also valuable will be the individual bibliographies that accompany each essay, in addition to the comprehensive bibliography and a detailed index at the end of the volume". Nadja Aksamija, in Renaissance Quarterly, 73 (1), pp.284-285.
Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Ph.D (1970), is Dean of the College and Professor of History Emerita at Agnes Scott College. Her major publications include Perugia, 1260-1340: Conflict and Change in a Medieval Italian Urban Society (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1976) and Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna (Brill, 2010).