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9780804739351: Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy
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ISBN 10: 0804739358 ISBN 13: 9780804739351
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2002

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For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence—as a city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond the “Florentine model” to explore the diversity of Italian urban and provincial life—the “many Italies” that stretched from the Apennines to the Mediterranean. This volume brings together a group of sixteen urban, social, religious, and economic historians of late medieval and early modern Italy whose work reflects this shift, and illustrates some of the significant new research directions of the field.

At the volume’s core are questions important to all historians of late medieval and early modern Europe: What does the new work on Italy beyond Florence have to say about the traditional definition of the Renaissance, a definition that made Florence its paradigmatic expression? What new questions about the period in general have emerged as a result of decentering the Renaissance? How has the effort to view Florence in a wider set of Italian and Mediterranean political and economic networks shed new light on the history of city states? And how has this work led to a reexamination of the continuities connecting the late medieval world to the early modern period?

In exploring the contours of Italy from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the volume creates a landscape against which to evaluate the current state of Florentine studies, the resurgence of Venetian studies, the renewed interest in Italy under Spanish rule, and the development of many other regional and local histories that are increasingly used by scholars to facilitate a broader understanding of Italy as a whole.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Paula Findlen is Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Michelle M. Fontaine is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Duane J. Osheim is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of A Tuscan Monastery and Its Social World.


Paula Findlen is Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Michelle M. Fontaine is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Duane J. Osheim is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of A Tuscan Monastery and Its Social World.

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For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence—as a city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond the “Florentine model” to explore the diversity of Italian urban and provincial life—the “many Italies” that stretched from the Apennines to the Mediterranean. This volume brings together a group of sixteen urban, social, religious, and economic historians of late medieval and early modern Italy whose work reflects this shift, and illustrates some of the significant new research directions of the field.
At the volume’s core are questions important to all historians of late medieval and early modern Europe: What does the new work on Italy beyond Florence have to say about the traditional definition of the Renaissance, a definition that made Florence its paradigmatic expression? What new questions about the period in general have emerged as a result of decentering the Renaissance? How has the effort to view Florence in a wider set of Italian and Mediterranean political and economic networks shed new light on the history of city states? And how has this work led to a reexamination of the continuities connecting the late medieval world to the early modern period?
In exploring the contours of Italy from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the volume creates a landscape against which to evaluate the current state of Florentine studies, the resurgence of Venetian studies, the renewed interest in Italy under Spanish rule, and the development of many other regional and local histories that are increasingly used by scholars to facilitate a broader understanding of Italy as a whole.

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For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence as a city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond the Florentine model to explore the diversity of Italian urban and provincial life the many Italies that stretched from the Apennines to the Mediterranean. This volume brings together a group of sixteen urban, social, religious, and economic historians of late medieval and early modern Italy whose work reflects this shift, and illustrates some of the significant new research directions of the field.
At the volume s core are questions important to all historians of late medieval and early modern Europe: What does the new work on Italy beyond Florence have to say about the traditional definition of the Renaissance, a definition that made Florence its paradigmatic expression? What new questions about the period in general have emerged as a result of decentering the Renaissance? How has the effort to view Florence in a wider set of Italian and Mediterranean political and economic networks shed new light on the history of city states? And how has this work led to a reexamination of the continuities connecting the late medieval world to the early modern period?
In exploring the contours of Italy from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the volume creates a landscape against which to evaluate the current state of Florentine studies, the resurgence of Venetian studies, the renewed interest in Italy under Spanish rule, and the development of many other regional and local histories that are increasingly used by scholars to facilitate a broader understanding of Italy as a whole.

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Beyond Florence

The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy

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Contents

Maps and Figures................................................................................................................................viiAcknowledgments.................................................................................................................................ixAbout the Contributors..........................................................................................................................xiPreface.........................................................................................................................................xvPART ONE. FLORENCE, ITALY, AND THE RENAISSANCE..................................................................................................11 Florence Redux Gene Brucker..................................................................................................................52 In and Out of Florence Paula Findlen.........................................................................................................13PART TWO. CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE..................................................................................................................293 The Other Florence Within Florence Samuel K. Cohn, Jr........................................................................................334 A World of Its Own: Economy, Society, and Religious Life in the Tuscan Mugello at the Time of Dante George Dameron...........................455 The Country Parish at Late Medieval Lucca Duane J. Osheim....................................................................................596 "Do Not Say That This Is a Man from Assisi" Robert Brentano..................................................................................72PART THREE. LAW AND SOCIETY.....................................................................................................................817 Concubines, Lovers, Prostitutes: Infamy and Female Identity in Medieval Bologna Carol Lansing................................................858 Lost Faith: A Roman Prosecutor Reflects on Notaries' Crimes Laurie Nussdorfer................................................................101PART FOUR. URBAN AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES.......................................................................................................1159 Pilgrim-Tourism in Late Medieval Venice Robert C. Davis......................................................................................11910 The Hermit Returns: Sanctity and the City in the March of Ancona Robert L. Cooper...........................................................13311 In the Shop of the Lord: Bernardino of Siena and Popular Devotion Cynthia L. Polecritti.....................................................14712 "Angels of Peace": The Social Drama of the Jesuit Mission in Early Modern Southern Italy Jennifer D. Selwyn.................................160PART FIVE. TOPOGRAPHIES OF POWER................................................................................................................17713 Topographies of Power in the Urban Centers of Medieval Italy: Communes, Bishops, and Public Authority Maureen C. Miller.....................18114 In Search of the Quiet City: Civic Identity and Papal State Building in Fourteenth-Century Orvieto David Foote..............................19015 Back to the Future: Remaking the Commune in Ducal Modena Michelle M. Fontaine...............................................................20516 The Spanish Foundations of Late Renaissance and Baroque Rome Thomas Dandelet................................................................219AFTERWORD Where Is Beyond Florence? Randolph Starn.............................................................................................233Notes...........................................................................................................................................243Bibliography....................................................................................................................................283Index...........................................................................................................................................315

Chapter One

Florence Redux

Gene Brucker

When, in November 1952, I made my first tremulous entrance into the reading room of the Florentine Archivio di Stato, I joined a small coterie of researchers that, on any given day, numbered no more than a dozen. The group included two distinguished historians from the United States, Felix Gilbert and Raymond De Roover, and Nicolai Rubinstein from London. The only Italian scholar in daily attendance in the archives was Elio Conti, then in the early stages of his research on fifteenth-century Florentine society. The older generation of Florentine historians had either died (Davidsohn, Caggese, Barbadoro) or were no longer actively engaged in research (Salvemini, Rodolico). Few students from the University of Florence ventured into the archives; their professors (Sestan, Garin, and Cantimori) encouraged them to work instead in the Biblioteca Nazionale. Students of the eminent economic historian Armando Sapori did work in the archives, and members of the staff (Guido Pampaloni, Francesca Morandini, Roberto Abbondanza) published the results of their research in the Archivio storico italiano and in other Tuscan journals. From this very modest nucleus of scholars then working on medieval and Renaissance Florence, it would have been difficult to predict the explosive growth of the field in subsequent years. But already in the 1950s, a cluster of young historians from the Anglo-Saxon world was coming to the archives to work on their research projects: Louis Marks, Philip Jones, Lauro Martines, Marvin Becker, David Herlihy, George Holmes, Peter Partner. This was the generation that revolutionized Florentine studies.

These scholars came to Florence from varied academic backgrounds. They were not linked to any historical tradition, nor any particular ideology or methodology. The influence of German refugee scholars (Baron, Kristeller, Mommsen, Gilbert) on this generation of Americans has been exaggerated. Though my mentor at Princeton, Theodor Mommsen, did suggest my dissertation topic on fourteenth-century Florence, I was converted to the study of Florentine history by two Oxford scholars: William Deakin and Cecelia Ady. Lauro Martines visited Florence to study Renaissance painting, when I induced him to explore manuscript sources in the archives. Marvin Becker had planned to write a biography of Walter of Brienne, when he began his research in the commune's fiscal records and developed his thesis on the evolution of the Florentine territorial state. David Herlihy came to Florence by way of Pisa and Pistoia and then began his monumental study based on fifteenth-century tax records, the catasto. He found his partner in that enterprise, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, through a chance encounter with Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie. English and Australian students migrated to Florence through their apprenticeship with Nicolai Rubinstein and Philip Jones, but their choice of research topics was often dictated by their particular interests and encounters with specific archival sources. It was these encounters, often accidental, with those records that fostered the...

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