• The first scholarly study to cover the history of the entire Lucca region from classical antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century
• Examines both city and countryside to redress the overemphasis on the city in Italian historiography
• Provides both a detailed archive-based study and an important contribution to wider debates about power structures and the differences between city-states and the new territorial states in fourteenth century Italy

Readership: Scholars and students of late Medieval and Renaissance Italy and of urban history

M. E. Bratchel, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

1: Lucca's Ancient Heritage: The Early Structures of City and Territory
2: The Early Commune and the Conquest of the Contado
3: The Administration of a Medieval City-Territory: Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries
4: The Fourteenth Century: The Lucchese State from the Loss of Independence to the Recovery of Liberty
5: The Signoria of Paolo Guinigi and the Evolution of the Fifteenth-Century Lucchese State
6: Lucca and its Territories in the Fifteenth Century: Politics and Administration
7: Lucca and its Territories in the Fifteenth Century: Economy and Society
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