Community and clientele in twelfth-century Tuscany : the origins of the rural commune in the plain of Lucca

Community and clientele in twelfth-century Tuscany : the origins of the rural commune in the plain of Lucca / Chris Wickham.

Focusing on local and regional studies of village communities as a way of understanding medieval European history, this book centres on a group of villages around Lucca and studies their social and political structures.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wickham, Chris, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1998.
Subjects:
To 1434
Villages > Italy > Lucca (Province) > History.
Rural population > Italy > Lucca (Province) > History.
Rural conditions.
Rural population.
Villages.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Conditions.
Lucca (Italy : Province) > Rural conditions.
Tuscany (Italy) > History > To 1434.
Italy > Lucca (Province)
Italy > Tuscany.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Lucca and the Sei Miglia in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  • 3. Rural Settlement, Village Identity, and the Parish in the Lucca Plain
  • 4. Signoria and Commune in Moriano in the Twelfth Century: Institutions
  • 5. Signoria and Commune in Moriano in the Twelfth Century: People
  • 6. Rural Landowners and Rural Communes on the Eastern Plain
  • 7. Rural Communes in the Lucca Plain in the Twelfth Century
  • 8. Comparative Perspectives
  • App. 1. Guide to Main Archival Sources
  • App. 2. Two Documents.

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