Aim of this article is to discuss the structural role of territorial lordship for its owners in north-western Italy between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through analysis of a large number of cases, we can see that it performed different functions according to different frameworks. In particular, it was a device for reproducing the social eminence of lords compared to the rest of the regional elite. Indeed, controlling a lordship meant having a huge and stable political capital, which could however be invested in two substantially opposite strategies: in the search for substantial autonomy from state power, or on the contrary in the creation of a structural and symbiotic link with state powers.
University of Turin, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-0983-6325
Titolo del capitolo
La signoria nel gioco politico: una lettura strutturale (area subalpina, secoli XIV-XV)
Autori
Alessio Fiore
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-427-4.06
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Anno di pubblicazione
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 3 L’azione politica locale
Curatori
Alessio Fiore, Luigi Provero
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
252
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-427-4
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-426-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-427-4
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-429-8
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079