At the end of the Middle Ages in Lombardy it was common for a rural lord and his subjects to be defined as friends. By comparing Lombardy to other areas of central and northern Italy, the essay underlines the exceptional nature of this situation, and questions its causes. Such a phenomenon had two main underlying reasons: on the one hand, the peculiar political relationship between city and countryside that distinguished Lombardy since the late thirteenth century; on the other hand, the strong consensual character of the Lombard lordship in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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Chapter Title
L’estensione del dominio dell’amicizia. Signori e amici in Lombardia e Italia centro-settentrionale, secoli XIV-XV
Authors
Federico Del Tredici
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-427-4.09
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Publication Year
2021
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Book Title
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 3 L’azione politica locale
Editors
Alessio Fiore, Luigi Provero
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Number of Pages
252
Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079