Thomas Blomquist

Collection of essays on the other i.e. non-Florentine Tuscany The articles include Lucca 1430 -1494 The Politics of the Restored Republic --how the Luccan republic was restored after the defeat of a local tyrant --restored with remarkable stability as it lasted to the 18th century, Strong emphasis on the politics of famlies and city neighborhoods, which tended to go together. Includes several colorful conspiracies. Public Policy and Private Profit: Tax Farming in Fourteenth Century Lucca --which finds more private profit than public benefit in the tax farming done by a close-knit clique of bidders. Archival Inventory in in Fourteenth Century Lucca --as dull as it sounds; Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of he Republic of Lucca (1371-710 on the man later famous as chancellor of Florence ,Pisan Consular Families in the Communal Age in the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries --earlier than most of the rest. The Political and Economic Relations of Pisa ad the Guelph League in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteen Century; Siena n the Fourteenth Century;From Development to Crisis: Changing Urban Structure in Siena between the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; Economy and Society in Southern Tuscany in the Late Middle Ages: Amiata and the Maremma… (mehr)