Medieval Italy

Release on 2011-09-21 | by Katherine L. Jansen

Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation gathers together for the first time in one
volume the primary sources in translation necessary for teaching the history of
the Central and Later Middle Ages in Italy. Over the past fifty years or so,
medieval Italy ...

Author: Katherine L. Jansen
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812206067
Category: History
Page: 624
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Medieval Italy

Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and the vernacular poetry of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The texts highlight the continuities with the medieval Latin West while simultaneously emphasizing the ways in which Italy was exceptional, particularly for its cities that drove Mediterranean trade, its new communal forms of government, the impact of the papacy's temporal claims on the central peninsula, and the richly textured religious life of the mainland and its islands. A unique feature of this volume is its incorporation of the southern part of the peninsula and Sicily—the glittering Norman court at Palermo, the multicultural emporium of the south, and the kingdoms of Frederick II—into a larger narrative of Italian history. Including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Lombard sources, the documents speak in ethnically and religiously differentiated voices, while providing wider chronological and geographical coverage than previously available. Rich in interdisciplinary texts and organized to enable the reader to focus by specific region, topic, or period, this is a volume that will be an essential resource for anyone with a professional or private interest in the history, religion, literature, politics, and built environment of Italy from ca. 1000 to 1400.

Language: en
Pages: 624

Medieval Italy

Authors: Katherine L. Jansen, Joanna Drell, Frances Andrews

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-21 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Language: en
Pages: 350

Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy

Authors: William Robins

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.

Language: en
Pages: 2160

Medieval Italy

Authors: Christopher Kleinhenz

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-02 - Publisher: Routledge

This Encyclopedia gathers together the most recent scholarship on Medieval Italy, while offering a sweeping view of all aspects of life in Italy during the Middle Ages. This two volume, illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource for information on literature, history, the arts, science, philosophy, and religion in Italy

Language: en
Pages:

Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy

Authors: Trevor Dean

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

In this important study, Trevor Dean examines the history of crime and criminal justice in Italy from the mid-thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century. The book contains studies of the most frequent types of prosecuted crime such as violence, theft and insult, along with the rarely prosecuted sorcery