Siena and the Sienese in the Thirteenth Century

Zusammenfassung This 1991 book portrays the life and institutions of a great medieval Italian city! Siena. Laws! council minutes! records of the commune's revenue and expenditure! wills and other charters from the thirteenth century are among the plentiful material which makes up the picture of the city republic's institutions and those who ran them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Chronology of principal political events and developments; 1. Setting; 2. People; 3. Institutions; 4. Oligarchy; 5. Problems; 6. Religion; 7. Assumptions; 8. Revenue; 9. Expenditure; 10. Continuity and change; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Philip Waley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521024693
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02469-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories