Urban Legends - Carrie E. Beneš

Urban Legends

Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250–1350
Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2011
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-03765-3 (ISBN)
135,90 inkl. MwSt
Explores the role of the classical past in the construction of urban identity in late medieval Italy. Focuses on the appropriation of classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate the regimes of various Italian city-states.
Between 1250 and 1350, numerous Italian city-states jockeyed for position in a cutthroat political climate. Seeking to legitimate and ennoble their autonomy, they turned to ancient Rome for concrete and symbolic sources of identity. Each city-state appropriated classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical successor to—or continuation of—Roman rule. In Urban Legends, Carrie Beneš illuminates this role of the classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian urban identity.

Carrie Beneš is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the New College of Florida.

Contents



List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text



Introduction

1.Appropriating a Roman Past

2.Padua: Rehousing the Relics of Antenor

3.Genoa: Many Januses for Civic Unity

4.Siena: Romulus and Remus Revisited

5Perugia: Adopting a New Aeneas

6.Classical Scholarship and Public Service

Conclusion



Biographical Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo 5 Maps; 22 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10 0-271-03765-2 / 0271037652
ISBN-13 978-0-271-03765-3 / 9780271037653
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