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A provincial elite in early modern Tuscany : family and power in the creation of the state
- Title
- A provincial elite in early modern Tuscany : family and power in the creation of the state / Giovanna Benadusi.
- Author
- Benadusi, Giovanna.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 259 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In this groundbreaking study of the interaction between familial strategies of Tuscan provincial families and the politics of the Florentine government, Giovanna Benadusi offers a new understanding of the social formation of the early modern state. The development of the modern state is a central theme of Renaissance and early modern European historiography, and the Florentine state was one of the first to create new state institutions, challenge municipal powers, and develop a new centralized political system. By incorporating into her account the families of shopkeepers, wool producers, landholders, notaries, and military officers who lived in the outlying town of Poppi, southeast of Florence, as integral contributors to state formation, Benadusi not only provides a vivid look at the ways power and resistance operated at the everyday level of social relations but also redefines the context and the participants in state formation.
- Series Statement
- The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 114th ser., 3
- Uniform Title
- Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 114th ser., 3.
- Subject
- 1421-1737
- Central-local government relations > Italy > Florence > History
- Elite (Social sciences) > Italy > Florence > History
- Elite (Social sciences) > Italy > Poppi > History
- Central-local government relations
- Elite (Social sciences)
- Politics and government
- Elite
- Families
- Elites
- Politieke macht
- Classe social
- Familia (sociologia)
- Florence (Italy) > Politics and government > 1421-1737
- Poppi (Italy) > Politics and government
- Italy > Florence
- Italy > Poppi
- Toskana
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-252) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Local Setting: Poppi and the Casentino -- 2. The Emergence of Ruling Families: Patterns of Office Holding -- 3. Dynamics of Power and Authority: Poppi and Florence -- 4. The Wool Industry and Its Crisis -- 5. Bureaucrats and Notaries -- 6. Strategies of Matrimony -- 7. Patterns of Landownership -- 8. The Army; A Career for Success -- 9. Strategies of Patrimony.
- ISBN
- 080185248X
- 9780801852480
- LCCN
- 95044489
- OCLC
- ocm33276676
- 33276676
- SCSB-2084412
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library