A companion to medieval and renaissance Bologna / / Sarah R. Blanshei.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to European History ; Volume 14
• VerfasserIn: Blanshei, Sarah Rubin,
• TeilnehmendeR: Blanshei, Sarah Rubin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to European history ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 623 pages).

Long neglected by scholars, medieval and Renaissance Bologna is now recognized as a center of economic, political-constitutional, legal, and intellectual innovation, as the city that served as the cultural crossroads of Italy. The city's distinctive achievements and its transition from medieval commune to second largest city of the Renaissance Papal State is illuminated by essays that present the work of current historians, many made available in English for the first time, from the broadest possible perspective: from the material city with its porticoes, the conflicts that brought bloodshed and turmoil to its streets, the disputations of masters and students, and to the masterpieces of artists who laid the foundations for Baroque art.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: History and Historiography of Bologna / Sarah Rubin Blanshei -- 1 Archival Sources: Governmental, Judicial, Religious, Familial / Diana Tura -- 2 Fiscal Sources: the Estimi / Rosa Smurra -- 3 Shaping the City: Urban Planning and Physical Structures / Francesca Bocchi -- 4 Public Health / G. Geltner -- 5 Regulating the Material Culture of Bologna la Grassa / Antonella Campanini -- 6 Economy and Demography / Fabio Giusberti and Francesca Roversi Monaco -- 7 Bankers, Financial Institutions, and Politics / Massimo Giansante -- 8 Civic Institutions (12th-early 15th Centuries) / Giorgio Tamba -- 9 From One Conflict to Another (13th-14th Centuries) / Giuliano Milani -- 10 Libertas, Oligarchy, Papacy: Government in the Quattrocento / Tommaso Duranti -- 11 Popular Government, Government of the Ottimati, and the Languages of Politics: Concord and Discord (1377-1559) / Angela De Benedictis -- 12 Making of an Oligarchy: The Ruling Classes of Bologna / Andrea Gardi -- 13 Criminal Justice and Conflict Resolution / Sarah Rubin Blanshei and Sara Cucini -- 14 The Church, Civic Religion, and Civic Identity / Gabriella Zarri -- 15 Confraternities and Civil Society / Nicholas Terpstra -- 16 Mendicant Orders and the Repression of Heresy / Riccardo Parmeggiani -- 17 The University and the City: Cultural Interactions / David A. Lines -- 18 Bolognese Vernacular Language and Literature / Armando Antonelli and Vincenzo Cassì -- 19 Literary Culture in Bologna from the Duecento to the Cinquecento / Gian Mario Anselmi and Stefano Scioli -- 20 Miniaturists, Painters, and Goldsmiths (mid-13th-early 15th Century) / Raffaella Pini -- 21 Art and Patronage in Bologna's "Long" Quattrocento / David J. Drogin -- General Bibliography / Sarah Rubin Blanshei -- Index / Sarah Rubin Blanshei.