Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy, c. 1100 to c. 1440 - Hardcover

Romano, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300169078 ISBN 13: 9780300169072

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Cathedrals and civic palaces stand to this day as symbols of the dynamism and creativity of the city-states that flourished in Italy during the Middle Ages. Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy argues that the bustling yet impermanent sites of markets played an equally significant role, not only in the economic life of the Italian communes, but in their political, social, and cultural life as well. Drawing on a range of evidence from cities and towns across northern and central Italy, Dennis Romano explores the significance of the marketplace as the symbolic embodiment of the common good; its regulation and organization; the ethics of economic exchange; and how governments and guilds sought to promote market values. With a special focus on the spatial, architectural, and artistic elements of the marketplace, Romano adds new dimensions to our understanding of the evolution of the market economy and the origins of commercial capitalism and Renaissance individualism. 

About this title

Book Description:

Focusing on the spatial, architectural, and artistic elements of the medieval marketplace, Dennis Romano argues that these bustling sites harbored the origins of commercial capitalism and Renaissance individualism.

About the Author:

Dennis Romano is the Dr. Walter G. Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History and a professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300169078
• ISBN 13: 9780300169072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272