Information and the Government of the Composite Polities of the - Renaissance World C. 1350 1650

This book examines the role of information as a crucial means for governance and negotiation, through which Renaissance rulers and governments managed the composite polities under their control. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Review of History.

List of contents

1. Information and the government of the composite polities of the Renaissance world (c. 1350-1650) 2. Ruling by information, governing by records: the spoken and written grammar of power in post-communal Italy (c. 1350-1520) 3. Archiving the Swiss Tagsatzung in the early modern era: from distributed protocols to confederal archive 4. 'We want to know and be clearly informed': official records, unofficial correspondence and oral communication in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon (Majorca, Sardinia, Sicily) 5. Jem Sultan and Venice's intelligence system: sorting and deploying information in Venice's 'letterocracy' 6. An imperial formation joins a composite polity: the Portuguese Empire and the information system of the Hispanic Monarchy (1580-1640) 7. Manila and their agents in the court: long-distance political communication and imperial configuration in the seventeenth-century Spanish monarchy 8. The composite world of early modern information

About the author

Alessandro Silvestri is Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy. His research focuses on the Mediterranean in the later Middle Ages, with particular attention to Sicily and the Crown of Aragon. His areas of expertise include the history of administration, information management, and taxation.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Silvestri
• Assisted by: Alessandro Silvestri (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2025
• EAN: 9781041041276
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4104127-6
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Europe, European History, HISTORY / General, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Political campaigning and advertising, Production & quality control management, History and Archaeology, Library & Information Sciences, Production and quality control management, Library and information sciences / Museology