Medieval Lucca

• 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

"Bratchel's book, while suitably specialized. deserves the widest possible readership. It is a case-study in making the best use of thin documental pickings and it reminds us that, for all the risks, adopting a broad chronological approach...can pay dividends." - Jonathan Wright, Journal of European Studies 39(4)

"For those interested in the political history of medieval and Renaissance Lucca, this book is indispensible...a masterpiece of detailed information." - Mark Jurdjevic, The Journal of Speculum.

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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