Sleepwalking into a New World (eBook)

The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

Chris Wickham (Autor)

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2015
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6582-6 (ISBN)

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Chris Wickham is professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Oxford.

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A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian communeAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally alters our understanding of one of the most important political and cultural innovations of the medieval world.Chris Wickham provides richly textured portraits of three cities-Milan, Pisa, and Rome-and sets them against a vibrant backcloth of other towns. He argues that, in all but a few cases, the elites of these cities and towns developed one of the first nonmonarchical forms of government in medieval Europe, unaware that they were creating something altogether new. Wickham makes clear that the Italian city commune was by no means a democracy in the modern sense, but that it was so novel that outsiders did not know what to make of it. He describes how, as the old order unraveled, the communes emerged, governed by consular elites "e;chosen by the people,"e; and subject to neither emperor nor king. They regularly fought each other, yet they grew organized and confident enough to ally together to defeat Frederick Barbarossa, the German emperor, at the Battle of Legnano in 1176.Sleepwalking into a New World reveals how the development of the autonomous city-state took place, which would in the end make possible the robust civic culture of the Renaissance.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.1.2015
• Reihe/Serie: The Lawrence Stone Lectures
• Reihe/Serie: The Lawrence Stone Lectures
• Zusatzinfo: 7 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Alberti (family) • Ancient Rome • arbitration • Arezzo • aristocracy • aristocrats • Assemblies • autonomous city-states • Ayesha Jalal • barack obama • Benefice • Benevento • Brescia • Broletto • By the Grace of God • Caffaro (river) • Capitoline Hill • Case study • Castel Sant'Angelo • Cathedral chapter • cession • Chiavenna • Christopher Wickham • city-state • civic culture • civic pride • Clergy • Collaboration • collective government • Colloquium • Colosseo (Rome Metro) • Commerce • communes • Comune • Concio (Venice) • Consuls • Cortese • de facto • Diocese • Elite • Élite • Emilia • Families • fief • Frangipane • Frederic C. Lane • Gianluca • Giordano Pierleoni • Goffredo Malaterra • Guido da Velate • Heart of the City (Kaliningrad) • hegemony • Helmut • Historiography • institutional creativity • Institutionalisation • Italians • Italy • Laity • Lateran • Lateran Palace • lawrence stone • Libri Feudorum • Lombardy • Lucca • lunigiana • Mancini family • March of Tuscany • Mark Mazower • Matilde • Milan • Military • Modernity • narrative • Northern Italy • Origins (Judge Dredd story) • Otto of Freising • Papacy • papal reform • Pataria • piemonte • Pierleoni family • Pisa • pisani • Political History • Politics • Pope • Pope Gregory VII • Pope Honorius II • Pope Innocent II • Pope Paschal II • Pope Urban II • Popular democracy • Po (river) • Po Valley • Quentin Skinner • Renaissance • Republicanism • ResPublica • Romagna • Roman law • Roman senate • Rome • Ruler • sicily • signoria • southern Italy • State-Building • Stefano • Supporter • Surname • Thomas Hobbes • Thomas Sugrue • Tiber Island • Tithe • Trastevere • Tuscany • twelve men • unrest • Vassal • Veneto • Vercelli • Vimercate • warfare • Wealth • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6582-4 / 1400865824
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6582-6 / 9781400865826