Tra Montaccianico e Firenze: gli Ubaldini e la città
Atti del convegno di studi, Firenze-Scarperia 28–29 settembre 2012
Alessandro Monti editor Elisa Pruno editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Archaeopress
Published:28th Feb '16
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The central theme The Ubaldini and the City is the classic confrontation between feudal society and a resurgent urban form as the central instrument of organisation of European society, which is crucial to the origins of Europe as we know it today. The analysis starts from a reconstruction of the historical role played by the Ubaldini on the basis of a critical reconsideration of the available documentary evidence, and the results appear to be perfectly consistent with the general pattern for the Florentine aristocracy. The theme is one of ‘boundaries’: between historical and archaeological evidence, between the late Middle Ages and the birth of modernity; it concerns space with the establishment of new ‘borders’ which evolve from Terra Nuova and become completely territorial. The book takes as its subject a turning point in the history of the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the modern world: the crisis and collapse of the traditional feudal and rural world and the emergence of new territorial states based on the cities.
ISBN: 9781784912635
Dimensions: 290mm x 205mm x 7mm
Weight: 580g
158 pages