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Index
Cover page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Note to the English Edition
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Rulers of Milan, 1277–1535
Frontispiece
List of Maps and Figures
Maps
Figures
Introduction
Part I. Towards the Commune as State
1. Northern Italy in the Central Middle Ages: Some Historical Background
2. The City Commune and the Assumption of a Public Role
3. Experimentation and Conceptualization in the Field of Urban Expansion and the Construction of Territory
4. The Political Cultures of the City and the Territory: Some Early Affinities
5. Some Cornerstones of City and Communal Ideology
6. Between unitas and aequalitas: The Ideology of Representation
7. The Ideologues of Communal Political Culture
8. The Experience of Personal Government between the Factions and the Popolo: The Persistence of the Commune
9. Towards Conflict: The Political and Juridical Culture of the Commune Becomes Hegemonic
9.1 Law as a Legislative Instrument
9.2 Law as a Doctrinal Instrument
9.3 Law as a Judicial Instrument
10. The Political Cultures of the contado: Aristocratic Pre-eminence and the Subordination of the Rural Dweller
11. Rural Communes and the Culture of Practices
Part II. Towards The Regional State
1. New Scenarios, Old Questions
2. The Rise of Visconti Power: Between Legitimation from Below and a Longing for Majesty
3. The Ideology of the Regional State
4. Law as a Field of Tension
4.1 Law as a Legislative Instrument
4.2 Law as a Doctrinal Instrument
4.3 Law as a Judicial Instrument
5. The Duke and the Culture of Individual Distinction
6. The Territorial Aristocracies: Pressure from Below, Organization from Above
7. The Foundations of Seigneurial Power in the Countryside
8. Guelphs and Ghibellines: Another Idea of Legitimacy
9. ‘Pacta servanda sunt’: The Political Culture of Contractualism
Concluding Note
Bibliography
Index
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