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Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the later Middle Ages
Title
Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the later Middle Ages / edited by Helen Fulton and Michele Compopiano.
ISBN
9781903153697
1903153697
9781787441798
1787441792
Publication
Suffolk : York Medieval Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster productive and far-reaching connections and cultural interactions between Britain and Italy; equally, the flourishing of Italian humanism from the late fourteenth century onwards had a major impact on intellectual life in Britain. The aim of this book is to illustrate the continuity and the variety of these exchanges during the period. Each chapter focuses on a specific area (book collection, historiography, banking, commerce, literary production), highlighting the significance of the productive interchange of people and ideas across diverse cultural communities; it is the lived experience of individuals, substantiated by written evidence, that shapes the book's collective understanding of how two European cultures interacted with each other so fruitfully.
Other formats
Online version: Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the Later Middle Ages. Suffolk : York Medievak Press, 2018
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-203) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Historical and literary connections between Britain and Italy in the Middle Ages / Michele Campopiano
Writing, translating and imagining Italy in the Polychronicon / Margaret Bridges
Richard de Bury, Petrarch and Avignon / Carolyn P. Collette
The reception of Itailian political theory in northern England : Bartolus of Saxoferrato and Giles of Rome in York / Michele Campopiano
Italian firms in late Medieval England and their bankruptcy ; re-reading an old history of financial crisis / Ignazio Del Punta
"Nostri fratelli da Londra" : the Lucchese community in late Medieval England / Bart Lambert
"Saluti da Londra" : Italian merchants in the City of London in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries / Helen Bradley
Political Joachism and the English Franciscans : the rumour of Richard II's return / Victoria Flood
Urban history in Medieval and Early Modern Britain : the influence of classical and Italian models / Helen Fulton
Afterword: The nature of Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges / Helen Fulton.
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