Milan Undone : : Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars /

Milan Undone : : Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars / / John Gagné.

A new history of how one of the Renaissance’s preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars.In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major powers of Europe battled f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Gagné, John,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • TIMELINE
  • Introduction
  • PART I: POLITICS
  • 1. The Temporality of the State
  • 2. Urban Construction and Social Control as Capture
  • 3. Delegitimizing the Sforza
  • PART II: PROPERTY
  • 4. Land and Ownership
  • 5. Protecting and Suing
  • 6. Document Destruction and Fraud
  • PART III: PEOPLE
  • 7. Elite Displacements
  • 8. Holy Sovereignties
  • 9. The People
  • Conclusion: The Empire Strikes Back
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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