Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations of archival sources
- Introduction
- 1 The ‘material constitution’ of the Florentine dominion
- 2 The language of empire
- 3 Constitutional ambitions, legal realities and the Florentine state
- 4 Fiscality, politics and dominion in Florentine Tuscany at the end of the middle ages
- 5 Market structures
- 6 State-building, church reform and the politics of legitimacy in Florence, 1375–1460
- 7 The humanist citizen as provincial governor
- 8 Territorial offices and officeholders
- 9 Demography and the politics of fiscality
- 10 Florentines and the communities of the territorial state
- 11 Patronage and its role in government: the Florentine patriciate and Volterra
- 12 San Miniato al Tedesco: the evolution of the political class
- 13 The social classes of Colle Valdelsa and the formation of the dominion (fourteenth–sixteenth centuries)
- 14 Arezzo, the Medici and the Florentine regime
- 15 Rubrics and requests: statutory division and supra-communal clientage in Pistoia
- 16 A comment
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ITALIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
12 - San Miniato al Tedesco: the evolution of the political class
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations of archival sources
- Introduction
- 1 The ‘material constitution’ of the Florentine dominion
- 2 The language of empire
- 3 Constitutional ambitions, legal realities and the Florentine state
- 4 Fiscality, politics and dominion in Florentine Tuscany at the end of the middle ages
- 5 Market structures
- 6 State-building, church reform and the politics of legitimacy in Florence, 1375–1460
- 7 The humanist citizen as provincial governor
- 8 Territorial offices and officeholders
- 9 Demography and the politics of fiscality
- 10 Florentines and the communities of the territorial state
- 11 Patronage and its role in government: the Florentine patriciate and Volterra
- 12 San Miniato al Tedesco: the evolution of the political class
- 13 The social classes of Colle Valdelsa and the formation of the dominion (fourteenth–sixteenth centuries)
- 14 Arezzo, the Medici and the Florentine regime
- 15 Rubrics and requests: statutory division and supra-communal clientage in Pistoia
- 16 A comment
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ITALIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Summary
A sector of studies by now decades old, which has developed out of a renewed attention for the first constitutive circumstances of the State, has concentrated on the Florentine dominion and its definition as a subregional entity, as well as on the structures of its territorial government. Research has revealed, both on a general level and in the course of categorical and local studies, that the progressive growth of the old ‘contado’ (Lat. comitatus) that had belonged to the Florentine republic at the height of the communal period experienced, apart from any teleological considerations, a strong acceleration, and was more dense with changes beginning, more or less, in the late fourteenth century, with particular intensity during the Albizzi period. It has been remarked, in fact, that between 1300 and 1400 there took place both an institutional redefinition of the ruling city and a more organic structuring of the existing relations between centre and periphery.
In particular, it has been shown that the relations between Florence and the subject communes underwent, in the decades of most rapid expansion, a profound re-elaboration of the institutions of government and of the methods of administration applied to the territory, even in the sense of an opening at a broader scale of the preceding organs for the administration of power, with a planning impulse in the institutional area that expressed an orientation towards forms of control and conduct that were more centralised.
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- Florentine TuscanyStructures and Practices of Power, pp. 242 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000