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 | | Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434 by Jr, Samuel K. Cohn ISBN-10: 9780521663373 ISBN-10: 0-521-66337-7 ISBN-13: 9780521663373 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-66337-3 Hardcover 2000-01-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance. It examines the Florentine state from its mountainous periphery, where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. From a tributary state, which treated its surrounding countryside as little more than a tax reservoir and a buffer against foreign invaders, Florence began to see its own self-interest as intertwined with that of its region and its rural subjects--a change brought about by widespread and successful peasant uprisings, hitherto unrecorded by historians. | ||
Book Description This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance. It examines the Florentine state from its mountainous periphery, where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. From a tributary state, which treated its surrounding countryside as little more than a tax reservoir and a buffer against foreign invaders, Florence began to see its own self-interest as intertwined with that of its region and its rural subjects--a change brought about by widespread and successful peasant uprisings, hitherto unrecorded by historians. | ||