Other title |
Comparing 2 Italies |
Series |
Mediterranean nexus 1100-1700 : conflict, influence and inspiration in the Mediterranean area, 2565-8549 Mediterranean nexus 1100-1700 (Series) ; 7. ^A1410588
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Contents |
About the 'Two Italies' / Patrizia Mainoni -- Between legal tradition and political practice: decisions by majority vote in north-central Italian communes, and a few thoughts for comparison with the 'Universitates' of peninsular southern Italy (twelfth-thirteenth centuries / Gianmarco De Angelis -- Transformations sociales et institutionnelles dans une ville pontificale du Mezzogiorno: les statuts de Bénévent de 1203 / Giovanni Araldi -- The Franciscan Order between two Italies / Maria Teresa Dolso -- Rethinking 'The Two Italies': circulation of goods and merchants between Venice and the 'Regno' in the late Middle Ages / Nicola Lorenzo Barile -- Regional trade and economic agents in the Kingdom of Naples (fifteenth century) / Eleni Sakellariou -- Women, families and wealth in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Liguria: past approaches and new perspectives / Paola Guglielmotti -- Familia id est substantia? Women and statutes in the Consilia of Baldus de Ubaldis / Alessandra Bassani -- Deux, trois, cent Italies. Réflexions pour une géographie historique des systèmes dotaux / Isabelle Chabot -- Conclusion: Many centuries, many Italies / Paolo Grillo. |
Summary |
This book's title recalls David Abulafia's famous book 'The two Italies', Cambridge 1977, about the origins of the so-called unequal exchange and dual economy between northern and southern Italy. This argument is supposed to be the ground of the so-called Southern Question (questione meridionale), one of the foremost topics of Italian history. But trade isn't the only major theme apt to compare the Italy of communes and the Kingdom of Sicily. This collection of essays aims to enlarge interpretative paths not only about trade networks, but about lesser-known sides of interrelations, e. g. the rise of civic tradition, the spread of Mendicant Orders, the circulation of wealth because of family relationships, women, marriage and patrimonial assets. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Language | 2 of the 10 essays are in French, the rest are in English. |
Genre/form | History. |
ISBN | 9782503569765 |
ISBN | 2503569765 (bound pbk.) |