John M. Najemy

A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. * Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy * Weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments * Academically rigorous yet accessible and appealing to the general reader * Likely to become the standard work on Renaissance Florence for years to come

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405178464
• Artikelnr.: 38282076

Autorenporträt

John M. Najemy is Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 (1993) and Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400 (1982). For the former he won the Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies and for the latter the Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association. He has also edited Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.

List of Illustrations.

Introduction.

1. The Elite Families.

2. The Popolo.

3. Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo.

4. Domestic Economy and Merchant Empires to 1340.

5. The Fourteenth-Century Dialogue of Power.

6. Revolution and Realignment.

7. War, Territorial Expansion, and the Transformation ofPolitical Discourse.

8. Family and State in the Age of Consensus.

9. Fateful Embrace: The Emergence of the Medici.

10. The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict.

Part I: Cosimo and Piero.

11. The Luxury Economy and Art Patronage.

12. The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict.

Part II: Lorenzo.

13. Reinventing the Republic.

14. Papal Overlords.

15. The Last Republic and the Medici Duchy.

Epilogue: Remembrance of Things Past.

Index

Rezensionen

"Based on wide reading of the available secondary and printedsources, A History of Florence represents the achievement ofa lifetime's devotion to the study of the city. Moreover, Najemy'scategories of analysis should provoke debates and conversations forfuture lifetimes." (Renaissance and Reformation,2009)

"There is much to praise about this book. It is a model historicalsynthesis of the history of a great premodern European city. It isalso a sophisticated political history in which class-based ideasand values matter as much as individual details of politicalevents." (The Catholic Historical Review, July 2010)"[This]is the best history of Florence in any language, and it will longremain so, for Najemy has mastered the relevant literature morethoroughly than any other historian in living memory." (TimesLiterary Supplement)

"John Najemy is a pre-eminent historian of Renaissance Florence... a scholar of learning, imagination and intellectualpenetration, with a profound knowledge of Florentine history fromthe thirteenth to the sixteenth century and with a remarkable rangeof interests in political, social and intellectual history. Therehas been no credible attempt to write a history of Florence in thisperiod since the time of Perrens's multi-volume work, finished in1883. Najemy has risen admirably to the challenge. He hasassimilated the vast secondary literature on Florence, from thebeginning of the thirteenth to the late sixteenth century. Therange of his analysis and explication stretches across a vast rangeof fundamental social, political, economic, diplomatic, militaryand biographical topics. Nor is Najemy indifferent to intellectualhistory, especially questions involving political thought andideology. This book is no mere synthesis of other scholars' work.Indeed, Najemy offers a distinctive interpretation, one which hasalready stimulated controversy and will doubtless continue to doso." (Reviews in History)

"Highly recommended." (Choice)

"An extraordinary accomplishment. Deserves rich praise as afundamentally new and authoritative interpretation of four keycenturies of this remarkable city's development."Speculum"[Najemy], a veteran Renaissance historianoffers a big and impressive survey of the Florentine city-state.... One of the justifications for the book [is] the need foran updated and accessible synthesis of the superabundance of recentspecialized scholarship on Florence. He succeeds admirably at thattask ... [and] manages to explain and contextualize detailedscholarship while remaining a lively and engaging politicalnarrative. [It] will surely become the definitive narrative ofmedieval and Renaissance Florence, a point of departure forstudents of Florentine politics and culture as well as a majorinterpretive statement providing much for specialists to engagewith for some time." (Sixteenth Century Journal)"A masterly survey of a generation of scholarship that has openedup many new perspectives, by an expert guide to the complexpolitical society of medieval and Renaissance Florence."
--Christine Shaw, of Cambridge University

"This is a marvellous book and I suspect it will become aclassic. John Najemy has an astonishing and probably unparalleledmastery of the scholarship on Florence and has accomplished aprecise and beautifully written synthetic history of the Medievaland Renaissance city."
--Carol Lansing, University of California, SantaBarbara