Community and Clientele in Twelfth-Century Tuscany
The Origins of the Rural Commune in the Plain of Lucca
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 July 1998
- ISBN 9780198207047
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 224x145x21 mm
- Weight 483 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 maps 0
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Short description:
This book fills a gap in recent Italian historiography by examining village rather than city communes. Chris Wickham uses the experience of villagers in the area around Lucca to shed light on the working of rural communities all over early medieval Europe. He shows how different strands in the local politics of these villages changed and took recognizable shape as the governing structure of the commune gradually emerged. Focused on a small area of the Tuscan plain, it will offer stimulating insight into general questions of European social change in the twelfth century.
MoreLong description:
This book addresses a gap in Italian historiography by examining rural rather than city communes. In recent years, historians have increasingly focused on local and regional studies of village communities as a way of understanding medieval European history. This discussion of a group of villages around Lucca is the first detailed study of the origin of organized village communities in Italy for over seventy years, showing how the social and political structures of the countryside ran alongside those of the city. Chris Wickham analyses how local politics took recognizable shape as its ruling structures gradually emerged over time. His argument does not end there, and indeed extends beyond Italy, to France and Spain, providing sustained comparisons of rural development and social organization. The result is a rare combination of systematic local analysis and wide synthesis, aimed at illuminating the whole area of social transformation in twelfth-century Europe.
an important contribution to a continuing debate about social change in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
Table of Contents:
List of Maps
Introduction
Lucca and the Sei Miglia in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Rural Settlement, Village Identity, and the Parish in the Lucca Plain
Signoria and Commune in Moriano in the Twelfth Century: Institutions
Signoria and Commune in Moriano in the Twelfth Century: People
Rural Landowners and Rural Communes on the Eastern Plain
Rural Communes in the Lucca Plain in the Twelfth Century
Comparative Perspectives
Appendix 1. Sources and Abbreviations
Appendix 2. Main Archival Sources
Guide to Use of Archival Sources
Bibliography
