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Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000–1320
AvGeorge W. Dameron
Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
921 kr
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This first detailed study of the bishops of Florence tells the story of a dynamic Italian lordship during the most prosperous period of the Middle Ages. Drawing upon a rich base of primary sources, George Dameron demonstrates that the nature of the Florentine episcopal lordship results from the tension between seigneurial pressure and peasant resistance. Implicit throughout is the assumption that episcopal lordship relied upon both the bishop’s jurisdictional power and his spiritual or sacramental power.The story of the Florentine bishops illuminates important moments in Italian history. The development of the Florentine elite, for example, is closely tied to the political and economic privileges they derived from their access to ecclesiastical property. A study of the bishopric’s vast holdings in the major river valleys surrounding Florence also provides valuable insight into the nature of the interrelation between city and countryside. Comparisons with lordships in other Italian cities contrast with and define the nature of medieval lordship.This economic, social, and political history addresses issues of concern to a wide audience of historians: the emergence of the commune, the social development of the nobility, the nature of economic change before the Black Death, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante
AvGeorge W. Dameron
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
1 166 kr
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By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of fifty years, during the lifetime of Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Florence had transformed itself from a political and economic backwater-scarcely keeping pace with its Tuscan neighbors-to one of the richest and most influential places on the continent. While many historians have focused on the role of the city's bankers and merchants in achieving these rapid transformations, in Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante, George W. Dameron emphasizes the place of ecclesiastical institutions, communities, and religious traditions. While by no means the only factors to explain Florentine ascension, no account of this period is complete without considering the contributions of the institutional church.In Florence, economic realities and spiritual yearnings intersected in mysterious ways. A busy grain market on a site where a church once stood, for instance, remained a sacred place where many gathered to sing and pray before a painted image of the Virgin Mary, as well as to conduct business. At the same time, religious communities contributed directly to the economic development of the diocese in the areas of food production, fiscal affairs, and urban development, while they also provided institutional leadership and spiritual guidance during a time of profound uncertainty. Addressing such issues as systems of patronage and jurisdictional rights, Dameron portrays the working of the rural and urban church in all of its complexity. Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante fills a major gap in scholarship and will be of particular interest to medievalists, church historians, and Italianists.
Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante
AvGeorge W. Dameron
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
983 kr
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By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of fifty years, during the lifetime of Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Florence had transformed itself from a political and economic backwater-scarcely keeping pace with its Tuscan neighbors-to one of the richest and most influential places on the continent. While many historians have focused on the role of the city's bankers and merchants in achieving these rapid transformations, in Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante, George W. Dameron emphasizes the place of ecclesiastical institutions, communities, and religious traditions. While by no means the only factors to explain Florentine ascension, no account of this period is complete without considering the contributions of the institutional church.In Florence, economic realities and spiritual yearnings intersected in mysterious ways. A busy grain market on a site where a church once stood, for instance, remained a sacred place where many gathered to sing and pray before a painted image of the Virgin Mary, as well as to conduct business. At the same time, religious communities contributed directly to the economic development of the diocese in the areas of food production, fiscal affairs, and urban development, while they also provided institutional leadership and spiritual guidance during a time of profound uncertainty. Addressing such issues as systems of patronage and jurisdictional rights, Dameron portrays the working of the rural and urban church in all of its complexity. Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante fills a major gap in scholarship and will be of particular interest to medievalists, church historians, and Italianists.
Feeding the Medieval Italian Commune
Grain, Political Legitimacy, and War, c. 1100-1350
AvGeorge W. Dameron
E-bok
Engelska, 2027
747 kr
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Demonstrates how the evolution of food policy went hand-in-hand with political developments in medieval Tuscan city-statesFeeding the Medieval Italian Commune explores food security in medieval Italy through the political economy of grain in Tuscany, one of the most prosperous, populated, and culturally significant areas of later medieval Europe. George W. Dameron shows how the Tuscan city-states, between 1100 and 1350, strove and struggled to provide their urban populations with sufficient grain. By 1350, the major communes-Florence, Siena, Lucca, Pistoia, Arezzo, San Gimignano, and Pisa-had developed food provisioning strategies and magistracies, many of them permanent, to feed their urban populations and to help stabilize and legitimize their governing regimes.Dameron shows how the evolution of food policy went hand-in-hand with political developments and pressures in the Tuscan communes over the course of these centuries, locating four significant turning points in urban grain provisioning strategies that coincided with four crucial moments in Tuscan social and political history. Each city-state followed its own pathway to maintain grain security; Dameron's comparative approach reveals how geographical factors, catastrophic weather events, political factionalism, and wars between city-states were also factors that shaped access to grain and other foodstuffs. From Florence's rise to political and economic dominance, facilitated by the city-state's unparalleled and privileged access to grain in the thirteenth century, to the outbreak of the Black Death, as plague spread through grain imports in the mid-fourteenth century, Dameron reveals the role that grain played in determining the divergent political trajectories of the Tuscan communes.Placing the history of grain provisioning within the context of the evolving republican governments of the communes and the particular pressures they faced, Feeding the Medieval Italian Commune uncovers a new story of urban food policies and the politics, economy, and culture of pre-modern Tuscany.

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George W. Dameron – författare

Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000–1320

Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante

Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante

Feeding the Medieval Italian Commune

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