Urban Legends
Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250–1350
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2011
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-03765-3 (ISBN)
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-03765-3 (ISBN)
Explores the role of the classical past in the construction of urban identity in late medieval Italy. Focuses on the appropriation of classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate the regimes of various Italian city-states.
Between 1250 and 1350, numerous Italian city-states jockeyed for position in a cutthroat political climate. Seeking to legitimate and ennoble their autonomy, they turned to ancient Rome for concrete and symbolic sources of identity. Each city-state appropriated classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical successor to—or continuation of—Roman rule. In Urban Legends, Carrie Beneš illuminates this role of the classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian urban identity.
Between 1250 and 1350, numerous Italian city-states jockeyed for position in a cutthroat political climate. Seeking to legitimate and ennoble their autonomy, they turned to ancient Rome for concrete and symbolic sources of identity. Each city-state appropriated classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical successor to—or continuation of—Roman rule. In Urban Legends, Carrie Beneš illuminates this role of the classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian urban identity.
Carrie Beneš is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the New College of Florida.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Introduction
1.Appropriating a Roman Past
2.Padua: Rehousing the Relics of Antenor
3.Genoa: Many Januses for Civic Unity
4.Siena: Romulus and Remus Revisited
5Perugia: Adopting a New Aeneas
6.Classical Scholarship and Public Service
Conclusion
Biographical Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Zusatzinfo | 5 Maps; 22 Halftones, black and white |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-03765-2 / 0271037652 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-03765-3 / 9780271037653 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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