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Stevenson Jane - Siena The Life And Afterlife Of A Medieval City - Hardcover
Stevenson Jane - Siena The Life And Afterlife Of A Medieval City - Hardcover
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Description: An authoritative richly illustrated history and affectionate celebration of Siena one of the best - loved and most - visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast undulating landscape Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici - dominated northern Tuscan rival with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High Middle Ages. From the twelfth century profiting from its advantageous position on a major pilgrim route the Republic of Siena developed into a major European power and remained an important commercial financial and artistic centre for four centuries. Jane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries suffered a catastrophic late medieval decline in the aftermath of the Black Death but transcended the loss of its wider political power to enjoy a prosperous civic afterlife. Siena today enjoys a cherished position as a uniquely well - preserved medieval city crammed with world - class art and architecture furnished with appealing and intriguing traditions and set in a heavenly landscape.
Title: Siena The Life And Afterlife Of A Medieval City
Author(s): Stevenson Jane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781801101141
Pages: 432 Pages, 100 Integrated Col
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
Description: An authoritative richly illustrated history and affectionate celebration of Siena one of the best - loved and most - visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast undulating landscape Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici - dominated northern Tuscan rival with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High Middle Ages. From the twelfth century profiting from its advantageous position on a major pilgrim route the Republic of Siena developed into a major European power and remained an important commercial financial and artistic centre for four centuries. Jane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries suffered a catastrophic late medieval decline in the aftermath of the Black Death but transcended the loss of its wider political power to enjoy a prosperous civic afterlife. Siena today enjoys a cherished position as a uniquely well - preserved medieval city crammed with world - class art and architecture furnished with appealing and intriguing traditions and set in a heavenly landscape.
Title: Siena The Life And Afterlife Of A Medieval City
Author(s): Stevenson Jane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781801101141
Pages: 432 Pages, 100 Integrated Col
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
