How could the presence of robust nuclei of wealth be reconciled in Italian city-communes with the government of a popular “res publica” which was intended to be based on social peace? What were the effects of the anti-magnates law for the purposes of disciplining families accustomed to grabbing available resources, even with violent methods, and exercising economic and political powers aiming exclusively at their own gain? And how was this dialectic revealed in the political lexicon of contemporaries and in the public reputation of the magnates? The contribution intends to answer these questions on the basis of a historical historiographical reflection and of some case studies that are rooted in the identified chronological framework (last decades of the thirteenth century-first decade of the fourteenth century).
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Chapter Title
Contro “li malvagi uomini e’ quai erano richi e […] volevano afamare la città”. I comportamenti iniqui e asociali dei magnati nello specchio del lessico politico e della reputazione pubblica (fine Duecento-prime decadi del Trecento)
Authors
Roberta Mucciarelli
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8.20
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
Socio-Economic Inequalities during the Conjuncture of the Fourteenth Century
Book Subtitle
Sources and Methods, Dynamics and Representations (Italy and Europe, c. 1270 - c. 1350)
Editors
Davide Cristoferi
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Number of Pages
458
Publication Year
2025
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8
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979-12-215-0699-0
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979-12-215-0705-8
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979-12-215-0707-2
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
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2704-6079