Governments of the universitates : urban communities of Sicily in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

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Governments of the universitates : urban communities of Sicily in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Title remainder

urban communities of Sicily in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Statement of responsibility

Fabrizio Titone

Creator

• Titone, Fabrizio

Subject

• History
• Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 1282-1409
• Cities and towns, Medieval -- Italy | Sicily
• Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 15th-18th centuries

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Titone refutes established historiographic interpretations in a long-term analysis of urban institutional and social transformations in Sicily during the Late Middle Ages and shows how distinct chronological divisions do not apply to these local governments characterized by both marked experimentation and striking continuity. The urban communities' social and institutional deformities are brought to light along with the fact that intense communication among cities could produce common results. The pivotal role consistently played by the universitates in the affairs of the kingdom can be seen in the process of defining urban autonomy which often involved sovereign and community in interrelated decision making. Cities frequently oriented royal policy and this explains a unique feature of Sicilian pactism: a community might not implement a sovereign's concession even though it ensued from municipal solicitations. The period of validity for a privilege when requested by only certain groups was linked to maintenance of the local status quo. Opposition from excluded parties and a shift in the balance of power originally underlying royal assent to a petition often meant the concession would not be put into effect with no further central government involvement necessary." --Book Jacket

Member of

• Studies in European urban history (1100-1800), 21

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

945

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DG867.34

LC item number

.T586 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

SEUH

Series volume

21