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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Arnau, Altres
Backman, Clifford R., The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily: Politics, Religion and Economy in the Reign of Frederick II (1296-1337), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, xxii + 352 pp.
- Resum
- This is the first detailed study of Sicilian life in the reign of Frederick III (1296–1337), a period which saw Sicily reduced from a bustling and prosperous Mediterranean emporium to a poor backwater torn apart by violence. The relative economic and social backwardness of Sicily within modern Italy has attracted considerable scholarly attention. Attempts to explain its ingrained poverty and civil strife usually blame either the legacy of two thousand years of colonisation by rapacious foreigners or the inherent weaknesses in the island itself and its people. More recently a model of ‘economic dualism' has pointed to basic structural flaws in the economic relations that were established between the island and its continental trading partners from the twelfth century onwards. This book, by focusing on Frederick III's crucial reign, argues that there were many more things ‘wrong' with Sicilian life than just the shape of its overseas trade relations.
· Provides the first intense and thorough view of the crucial ‘transitional' reign of Frederick III · Integrates fully political, economic, social and religious history · Provides a reinterpretation of how Sicily's poverty and strife became ingrained, and in turn fostered such organisations as the Mafia
Contents:
* 1. The kingdom at risk
* 2. The international scene: war without and within
* 3. A divided society I: the urban demesnal world
* 4. A divided society II: the rural baronial world
* 5. The religious scene: piety and its problems
* 6. In the margins: slaves, pirates, and women
* Conclusion
* Tables
* Bibliography
- Matèries
- Història - Política
Història - Economia
Religió - Espiritualitat
Vilanova, Arnau de
- Notes
- Reimpr. en rústica: 2002
Trad. it.: Palerm, 2007
Recensions:
* Josep Perarnau i Espelt, Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics, 18 (1999), 835-838.
- URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=ChDJEjnZnrIC&lpg=P ...
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