Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages

226 Pages·2018·3.134 MB·English

by  Michele Campopiano

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Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in
the Later Middle Ages
Edited by
Helen Fulton and Michele Campopiano
YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgements x
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction: Historical and Literary Connections between
Britain and Italy in the Middle Ages 1
Michele Campopiano
1 Writing, Translating and Imagining Italy in the Polychronicon 8
Margaret Bridges
2 Richard de Bury, Petrarch and Avignon 40
Carolyn P. Collette
3 The Reception of Italian Political Theory in Northern England:
Bartolus of Saxoferrato and Giles of Rome in York 52
Michele Campopiano
4 Italian Firms in Late Medieval England and their Bankruptcy:
Re-reading an Old History of Financial Crisis 67
Ignazio Del Punta
5 ‘Nostri Fratelli da Londra’: The Lucchese Community in Late
Medieval England 87
Bart Lambert
6 ‘Saluti da Londra’: Italian Merchants in the City of London in
the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries 103
Helen Bradley
7 Political Joachism and the English Franciscans: The Rumour
of  Richard II’s Return 128
Victoria Flood
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8 Urban History in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: The
Influence of Classical and Italian Models 150
Helen Fulton
Afterword: The Nature of Anglo-Italian Cultural Exchanges 179
Helen Fulton
Bibliography 182
Index 204
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Margaret Bridges, Writing, Translating and Imagining Italy in
the Polychronicon
Fig. 1 Mappa mundi in a copy of Ranulph Higden’s
Polychronicon. London, British Library MS Royal 14 C
ix, fol. 2v. Late fourteenth century. © The British Library
Board. Reproduced with permission. 38
Fig. 2 Marginal sketches for the provinces of Apulea and
Campania alongside the description of Italia. London,
British Library MS Harley 2261, fol. 37r. Fifteenth
century. © The British Library Board. Reproduced with
permission. 39
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CONTRIBUTORS
Helen Bradley obtained her doctorate in 1992 from Royal Holloway,
University of London. She subsequently worked for the Worshipful
Company of Haberdashers and the Worshipful Company of Saddlers
of the City of London, and on the major research project ‘The Views
of Hosts: Reporting the Alien Commodity Trade, 1440–1445’ (ESRC
RES-000-22-0628) at the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of
Historical Research, University of London. She is currently Honorary
Secretary of the London Record Society.
Margaret Bridges is Professor Emerita at the University of Berne, where
she held the Chair of Medieval English Language and Literature until
2009. She recently co-edited and contributed to three multilingual
volumes in the series Alexander redivivus (2013, 2015, 2015), devoted to
the European reception and transmission of literature about Alexander
the Great, with further volumes forthcoming. Current projects include
‘Fifteenth-Century English and Scots Contexts for Creatures of the Gaze:
the Basilisk and the Caladrius’, the Orient in the English Secret of Secrets,
and the earliest Modern English translations of Quintus Curtius Rufus.
A longer-term research project involves intermedial reflections on pre-
modern representations of the Annunciation.
Michele Campopiano is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin Literature
at the University of York. His research interests include the political life
and culture of Italian cities in the High and Late Middle Ages. Recent
publications include Liber Guidonis compositus de variis historiis: Studio ed
edizione critica dei testi inediti; and Universal Chronicles in the High Middle
Ages, co-edited with Henry Bainton.
Carolyn Collette is Professor Emerita of English Language and
Literature at Mount Holyoke College and a Research Associate at the
Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. She works
primarily in the field of late medieval Anglo-French literary culture.
Her recent work includes the monograph Rethinking Chaucer’s Legend
of Good Women (2014) and articles on Elisabeth Frink’s illustrations
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of The Canterbury Tales and on Chaucer’s poetics in The Legend of Good
Women.
Ignazio Del Punta is a post-doctoral researcher in medieval history at the
University of San Marino. His research interests are focused mainly in
the areas of economic and social history, but also include Mediterranean
history, crusade studies and the history of political systems in late medi-
eval Europe. He is currently working on the edition of the Frescobaldi
letters (early fourteenth century) preserved at The National Archives
in London. He is the author of a number of monographs and articles,
including Mercanti e banchieri lucchesi nel Duecento (2004), Lettere dei
Ricciardi di Lucca ai loro compagni in Inghilterra (1295–1303), with Arrigo
Castellani (2005), and Guerrieri, crociati, mercanti. I toscani in Levante in età
pieno-medievale (secoli XI–XIII) (2010).
Victoria Flood is Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature in
the Department of English at the University of Birmingham. She was
previously Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University and
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Philipps-Universität
Marburg. Her monograph, Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England:
From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Thomas of Erceldoune, was published in
2016.
Helen Fulton holds the Chair of Medieval Literature at the University
of Bristol. She has published extensively on the literatures of medieval
Britain, with a particular focus on urban cultures and the political and
literary connections between Wales and England. Recent publications
include work on vernacular literary transmission and political poetry in
the medieval March of Wales.
Bart Lambert is a post-doctoral research associate working on the
HERA-funded CitiGen project at the University of York. He is the author
of The City, the Duke and their Banker: The Rapondi Family and the Formation
of the Burgundian State (1384–1430) (2006) and has published articles
on the history of migration to England and the history of international
trade and banking during the later Middle Ages in peer-reviewed jour-
nals, including English Historical Review, the Journal of British Studies, the
Journal of Medieval History and Urban History.
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