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Popular protest and ideals of democracy in late Renaissance Italy /

This study to analyses popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on a vast range of contemporary documents, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. places these incidents of popular protest and their patterns in comparative perspectives.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Protest movements > Italy > History > 16th century.
Venice (Italy) > Colonies > History > 16th century.
Contestation > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Colonies
Protest movements
Italy
Italy > Venice
1500-1599
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Questions and Sources
  • Prologue: The Decline in Popular Revolt in Fifteenth-Century Italy
  • Part I: Differences
  • 1. Chants and Flags
  • 2. Prices and Crises
  • 3. Women
  • 4. Shopkeepers and Soldiers
  • Part II: Convergences
  • 5. Varieties of Protest (i): Peasants, Alliances, Economics, and Religion
  • 6. Varieties of Revolt (ii): Leaders, Hate, Nobles, Children, the popolo
  • Part III. Democracy
  • 7. Ideals of Representation
  • 8. Equality.