The Florentine Magnates : : Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune / / Carol Lansing.

In the 1290s a new guild-based Florentine government placed a group of noble families under severe legal restraints, on the grounds that they were both the most powerful and the most violent and disruptive element in the city. In this colorful portrayal of civic life in medieval Florence, Carol Lans...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1991
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1221
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ONE. Introduction: The Medieval Florentine Nobles
  • PART ONE: THE LINEAGE
  • TWO. The Formation of Urban Lineages
  • THREE. Joint Lineage Property: An Overview
  • FOUR. Ecclesiastical Rights as Joint Property
  • FIVE. Joint Property: Towers and Palaces
  • PART TWO: THE EXCLUSION OF WOMEN
  • SIX. Disaffection from the Lineage: Umiliana dei Cerchi and the Cathars
  • SEVEN. Women Within the Lineage
  • PART THREE: THE MAGNATES
  • EIGHT. Knighthood and Courtly Style
  • NINE. Violence and Faction
  • TEN. The Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice
  • ELEVEN. The Debate Over True Nobility
  • TWELVE. The Magnates in the Early Fourteenth Century
  • APPENDIX I. List of the Magnates
  • APPENDIX II. A Note on Coinage
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX