History 5341: Medieval Italy

John Howe

List 5:  Communes and Confraternities  

Ames-Lewis, Francis. Tuscan Marble Carving, 1250-1350: Sculpture and Civic Pride. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997.

Andrews, Frances, with Maria Agata Pincelli. Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c. 1200-c. 1450: Cases and Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Bartlett, Kenneth. Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464-98: A Short History with Documents. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2018.

Beneš, Carrie E. Urban Legends: Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250-1350. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.

Blanshei, Sarah Rubin. Perugia, 1260-1340: Conflict and Change in a Medieval Italian Urban Society. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ns 66(2). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1976.

Blanshei, Sarah Rubin. Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna.  Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Bowsky, W.M. A Medieval Italian Commune: Siena under the Nine, 1287-1355. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Branca, Vittore, ed. Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Translated by Murtha Baca with a biographical essay by Cesare de Michelis. Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.

Brentano, Robert. A New World in a Small Place: Church and Religion in the Diocese of Rieti. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Brentano, Robert.  Rome before Avignon: A Social History of Thirteenth Century Rome. New York: Basic Books, 1974.

Bruzelius, Craoline. The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266-1343. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Cassidy, Brendan.  Politics, Civic Ideals, and Sculpture in Italy, c. 1240-1400.  Turnhout:  Brepols, 2007.

Dameron, George W. Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320. Harvard Historical Studies 107. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Dameron, George W.  Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

D’Andrea, David M.  Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy:  The Hospital of Treviso, 1400-1530.  Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe 5.  Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007.

Dean, Trevor (ed.). The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.

Epstein, Steven. Genoa & the Genoese, 958-1528. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Epstein, Steven. Wills and Wealth in Medieval Genoa, 1150-1250. Harvard Historical Studies 103. Cambridge.: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Foote, David.  Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250.  Publications in Medieval Studies.  Notre Dame, IN:  University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.

Gavitt. Philip. Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence: The Ospedale degli Innocenti, 1410-1536. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Herlihy, David. Medieval and Renaissance Pistoia: The Social History of an Italian Town, 1200-1430. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967

Herlihy, David. Pisa in the Early Renaissance: A Study of Urban Growth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958.

Jones,Philip James. The Italian City-State: From Commune to Signoria. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Lansing, Carol.  The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Lansing, Carol.  Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008 

Lewin, Alison Williams.  Negotiating Survival: Florence and the Great Schism, 1378-1417.  Madison, NJ:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003.

Martines, Lauro (ed.). Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities, 1200-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Miller, Maureen C. The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, May 2000.

Miller, Maureen C. The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Queller, Donald E. The Venetian Patriciate: Reality versus Myth. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1986.

Raccagni, Gianluca. The Lombard League, 1167-1225. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010.

Review Together: 1) Neslihan Senocak, “Twelfth-Century Italian Confraternities as Institutions of Pastoral Care.” Journal of Medieval History 42 (2016): 202-225; 2) Marina Gazzini, "Solidarity and Brotherhood in Medieval Italian Confraternities: A Way of Inclusion or Exclusion?" Reti Medievali Rivista 13 (2012): 109-120.

Starn, Randolph. Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Terpstra, Nicholas ( ed.).  The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy.  Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999.

Waley, Daniel Philip. The Italian City-Republics. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1969.

Wickham, Chris. Community and Clientele in Twelfth-Century Tuscany: The Origins of the Rural Commune in the Plain of Lucca. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Wickham, Chris. Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.