Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy,c. 1200–c. 1450 - Title page

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Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Figures

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Maps

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Contributors

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Abbreviations

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Map A

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1 - Introduction

pp 1-24

2 - Bishop and commune in twelfth-century Cremona: the interface of secular and ecclesiastical power

pp 25-42

Part I - Urban case studies

pp 43-234

3 - Ut inde melius fiat: thecommune of Parma and its religious personnel

pp 45-66

4 - Theemployment of religious orders in Piacenza between the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries

pp 67-85

5 - Cremona: a case study

pp 86-107

6 - Employment of religious in the administration of theModena commune from the twelfth to the fifteenth century

pp 108-126

7 - Verona: a model case in the study of relationships between members of religious orders and the government of the city

pp 127-135

8 - Thetasks assigned to theHumiliati by the commune of Bergamo (twelfth–fourteenth centuries)

pp 136-148

9 - Religiousand public life: Lucca, a case study

pp 149-165

10 - Pistoia: a case study

pp 166-180

11 - Religious in the service of the commune: the case of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Perugia

pp 181-200

12 - On thetrail of religious in the medieval communes of Viterbo andTuscia

pp 201-218

13 - Venetianexceptionalism? Lay and religious in Venetian communal governance

pp 219-234

Part II - Ecclesiastical perspectives

pp 235-304

14 - Cistercians as administrators in the thirteenth-century Italian communes

pp 237-250

15 - The Cistercian monk and the casting counter

pp 251-267

16 - Hermits for communes: the Camaldolese in the service of the communes of central and northern Italy in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries

pp 268-284

17 - Cooperative intervention: sermons supporting the governing authority in fifteenth-century Italy

pp 285-304

Part III - Comparisons beyond central and northern Italy

pp 305-357