Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

320 Pages·2015·7.427 MB·English

by  Chris Wickham

S L EEP WA L K ING INTO A NE W WORL D
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THE LAWRENCE STONE LECTURES
Sponsored by
The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
and Princeton University Press
2014
A list of titles in this series appears at the back of the book.
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PRINCETON UNIVE RPSRIITNYC PE RT OE NS S& O X F O R D
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“Saint Nicholas of Tolentino and View of Pisa.”
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CON T EN T S
List of Maps vii
Acknowledgements ix
A Note on Personal Names xi
Chapter 1
COMMUNES
1
Chapter 2
MILAN
21
Chapter 3
PISA
67
Chapter 4
ROME
119
Chapter 5
ITALY
161
Notes 207
Bibliography 253
Index 283
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M A P S
Map 1
COMMUNAL ITALY
3
Map 2
MILAN
35
Map 3
THE TERRITORY OF MILAN
43
Map 4
PISA
102
Map 5
THE TERRITORY OF PISA
103
Map 6
ROME
137
Map 7
LAZIO
143
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ACK NO W L EDGEMEN T S
I am very grateful to Princeton University and Princeton
University Press for inviting me to give the Lawrence Stone
Lectures in May 2013, which were the basis for this book:
and in particular to my hosts, Philip Nord and Brigitta van
Rheinberg; to Peter Brown, Pat Geary, John Haldon, Bill
Jordan, Helmut Reimitz, and Jack Tannous, who made the
stay of myself and my wife Leslie Brubaker so welcoming; and
to all of these for questions and critical commentary which
greatly improved the subsequent book. I am also very grateful
indeed to Eddie Coleman, who critiqued the whole text, Leslie
Brubaker, who critiqued chapters 1 to 3, Paolo Grillo, who
critiqued chapter 2, Mauro Ronzani, who critiqued chapter
3, and Sandro Carocci and François Menant, who critiqued
chapter 5. Alessandra Mercantini, of the Archivio Doria
Pamphilj in Rome, kindly made my consultation of a crucial
cartulary easy. And I had essential help, in the form of advice
and unpublished work, from other old friends, Maria Luisa
Ceccarelli Lemut, Maria Elena Cortese, Alessio Fiore, Pino
Petralia, Gigi Provero, Gianluca Raccagni, and Enrica Salva-
tori. As usual, without friends, whatever merits my book has
would have been very much fewer.
Birmingham, October 2013
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