Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Hardcover

Starn, Randolph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520046153 ISBN 13: 9780520046153

Publisher: Univ of California Pr, 1982

Synopsis

8vo. xix, 207 pp, list of b&w illustration and maps, preface, I. Premises and Vestiges; II. Facts of Exclusion and Exile in Medieval Italy; III. Dante and His Judges: Rules of Exclusion in the Early Fourteenth Century; IV. Facts and Rules of Inclusion: Exiles in the World of Renaissance States; V. The Voices of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy; epilogue, notes, index. First Edition, 1982. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ``Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book traces the hitherto unwritten history of a 'contrary commonwealth' of exile frome its open and collective resistance during the Middle Ages to its submission to Renaissance regimes that were forerunners of the modern state." from the jacket flap.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0520046153
• ISBN 13: 9780520046153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240