Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence
Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence

Author: Lauro Martines

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1400878047

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Lawyers at work-in diplomacy, in relations with the Church, in territorial government, in the formulation of policy, in administration, and in the political struggle provide the unifying theme in this analysis of the exercise of political power in Renaissance Florence. Professor Martines studies the actual techniques of government, the hidden legal and constitutional questions raised by everyday affairs, and the responses of individual lawyers to the pressures of politics. He shows precisely how Florentine lawyers, both republicans and oligarchs, viewed the state. An appendix lists and briefly characterizes the some 200 lawyers who practiced in Florence during the period 1380 to 1530. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows

Author: British Academy

Publisher: Proceedings of the British Aca

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780197263204

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Volume 124 of the 'Proceedings of the British Academy' contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.

The Medici Women
The Medici Women

Author: Natalie R. Tomas

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1351885839

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The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of republican Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas here examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe. Tomas takes a feminist approach that examines the experience of the Medici women within a critical framework of gender analysis, rather than biography. Keeping the historiography to a minimum and explaining all unfamiliar Italian terms, Tomas makes her narrative clear and accessible to non-specialists; thus The Medici Women appeals to scholars of women's studies across disciplines and geographical boundaries.

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance

Author: Quentin Skinner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1978-11-30

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780521293372

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The two volumes of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought are intended as both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. -- Book Cover.

Venice as the Polity of Mercy
Venice as the Polity of Mercy

Author: Richard MacKenney

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2018-12-21

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1442621222

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This study re-examines Venice’s political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people or popolani who, despite the commonly held view that they were excluded from political life by the nobility or nobili, actually organized and ran for themselves hundreds of corporations within the city-state. Mercy was central to this popolani’s Christian values and those who offered mercy to their fellow men and women in temporary hardship were investing in the expectation of reciprocity in their own time of need. Beginning by tracing a formative linking of religion, economy, and polity from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, Venice as the Polity of Mercy then chronicles the collapse of this triad during the struggles between church and state in the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, followed by a revitalizing reconnection of economy and polity within a different religious climate after the plague of 1630. As such, Richard Mackenney’s book offers up a revitalized image of Renaissance Venetian society as dynamic rather than static, as well as a new understanding of the city’s significance through a reconfiguration of its history and artwork.

Joseph Scaliger: Textual criticism and exegesis
Joseph Scaliger: Textual criticism and exegesis

Author: Anthony Grafton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780198148500

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This book describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the most original scholar of the late Renaissance. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of ancient and medieval history, a study that required him to use both astronomical data and philological methods. Volume I of this study was published in 1983, and received wide critical attention.