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Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation
Katherine L. Jansen
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Description for Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation
Paperback. Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation gathers together, for the first time in one volume, newly translated primary sources critical to the study of the Italian Middle Ages, ca. 1000-1400 C.E. What makes this volume unique, too, is its incorporation of the southern part of the peninsula and Sicily into a larger narrative of Italian history. Editor(s): Jansen, Katherine Ludwig; Drell, Joanna H.; Andrews, Frances. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 624 pages, 36 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1064.
Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and the vernacular poetry of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The texts highlight the continuities with the medieval Latin West while simultaneously emphasizing the ways in which Italy was exceptional, particularly for its cities that drove Mediterranean trade, its new communal forms of government, the impact of the papacy's temporal claims on the central peninsula, and the ... Read more
Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and the vernacular poetry of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The texts highlight the continuities with the medieval Latin West while simultaneously emphasizing the ways in which Italy was exceptional, particularly for its cities that drove Mediterranean trade, its new communal forms of government, the impact of the papacy's temporal claims on the central peninsula, and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812220582
SKU
V9780812220582
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About Katherine L. Jansen
Katherine L. Jansen is Associate Professor of History at The Catholic University of America, Joanna Drell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond, and Frances Andrews is Reader in Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews.
Reviews for Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation
This collection of texts from throughout the Italian peninsula, translated from Latin, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, and even Spanish, and ranging in date from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, is an ambitious undertaking, representing the full cultural diversity of medieval Italy, its islands and colonies. . . . A very rich and varied collection, long in the making, but ... Read more