Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

History

Law, John E.

Europe

Routledge

The lords of Renaissance Italy: The signori, 1250-1500 (General series)

Historical Association

<p>Have you ever encountered a friend or a stranger, who was rude, thoughtless, self-obsessed or just a pain in the ass? If so, we have just the ticket for your salvation. Click on the cover and Look Inside This Book to see the tickets, each one replete a litany of written remarks setting forth your complaint. Simply put a checkmark in the box alongside the appropriate remark(s). Below the litany of remarks is a spot where you can also write a narrative specifically describing your complaint. Then, the last half of the book is a bonus section with a different ticket you can issue to those selfish folks who park unlawfully in a handicapped only spot. It features a distinctive Handicapped Parking Emblem. So next time someone violate the social contract: Namely, edge takers, chiselers, parking space stealers, road ragers, bad drivers, snippy fast food workers, bad bosses, line jumpers, a doctor who kept you waiting too long or the rude cop who just gave you a traffic ticket write them a ticket, Write them a ticket. Truth be told, once you have written a ticket you don't have to serve it. A valid and wise alternative would be to simply crumple it up and throw it away. This for the simple reason that writing a ticket is an effective way to vent anger and to provide catharsis. Is there any need to actually serve it. In the alternative, if someone is kind, or a waitress gives good service, write them a ticket, applaud their humanity.</p>

John Law's Ticketbook!: Write a Ticket to the Rude and Obnoxious!

Self-Help

Middle Coast Publishing

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