The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600

Zusatztext This welcome addition to the literature is massively documented, well written, and can be used by both scholars and non-specialists. Informationen zum Autor Before joining the Institute of Reformation Studies in St Andrews in 2004, Tom Scott was based in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. Before that he was a research fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He has worked on town-country relations and regional identities in late medieval and early modern Germany, bringing his approach to bear upon aspects of the Reformation at the grassroots and on the German Peasants' War. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung In this, the first comprehensive study of city-states in medieval Europe, Tom Scott analyzes reasons for cities' aquisitions of territory and how they were governed. He argues that city-states did not wither after 1500, but survived by transformation and adaption. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Europe in AD 1000 2: The Rise of the Communes, 1000-1150 3: Cities and their Adversaries, 1150-1300 4: City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The South 5: City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The North 6: Survival and Transformation, 1450-1600 Conclusion Bibliography Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Tom Scott
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 03.02.2012
• EAN: 9780199274604
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927460-4
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Historical Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Politics and government, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Urban communities, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Historical Geography