{"product_id":"9781801101141-siena-the-life-and-afterlife-of-a-medieval-city","title":"Stevenson Jane - Siena The Life And Afterlife Of A Medieval City - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Siena The Life And Afterlife Of A Medieval City\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Stevenson Jane\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781801101141\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 432 Pages, 100 Integrated Col\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 2\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Early Modern History: C 1450\/1500 To C 1700","brand":"Stevenson Jane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49624320901425,"sku":"IN-G-9781801101141","price":39.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781801101141.jpg?v=1724943965","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781801101141-siena-the-life-and-afterlife-of-a-medieval-city","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}