The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 (Studies in European History from the Journal of Modern History)

✍ Scribed by Julius Kirshner

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The beginnings of the state in Europe is a central topic of contemporary historical research. The making of such early modern Italian regional states as Florence, the kingdom of Naples, Milan, and Venice exemplifies a decisive turn in the state tradition of Western Europe. The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 represents the best in American, British, and Italian scholarship and offers a valuable and critical overview of the key problems of the emergence of the state in Europe. Some of the topics covered include the political legitimacy of the aborning regional states, the changing legal culture, the conflict between church and state, the forces shaping public finances, and the creation of the Italian League.The eight essays in this collection originally appeared in the Journal of Modern History. Contributors include Roberto Bizzocchi, Giorgio Chittolini, Trevor Dean, Riccardo Fubini, Elena Fasano Guarini, Aldo Mazzacane, Anthony Molho, and Pierangelo Schiera. This volume will appeal to historians, historical sociologists, and historians of political thought.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Editors' Note......Page 7
Introduction: The State Is "Back In"......Page 8
Legitimacy, Discipline, and Institutions: Three Necessary Conditions for the Birth of the Modern State......Page 18
The "Private," the "Public," the State......Page 41
Law and Jurists in the Formation of the Modern State in Italy......Page 69
Center and Periphery......Page 81
The State and Public Finance: A Hypothesis Based on the History of Late Medieval Florence......Page 104
The Courts......Page 143
Church, Religion, and State in the Early Modern Period......Page 159
The Italian League and the Policy of the Balance of Power at the Accession of Lorenzo de' Medici......Page 173
INDEX......Page 207