Diplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the building of the modern 'nation-State'. This is the first overall study of diplomacy in Early Renaissance Italy since Garrett Mattingly's pioneering work in 1955. It offers an innovative approach to the theme of Renaissance diplomacy, sidestepping the classic dichotomy between medieval and early modern, and re-considering the whole diplomatic process without reducing it to the 'grand narrative' of the birth of resident embassies. Communication and Conflict situates and explains the growth of diplomatic activity from a series of perspectives - political and institutional, cognitive and linguistic, material and spatial - and thus offers a highly sophisticated and persuasive account of causation, change, and impact in respect of a major political and cultural form. The volume also provides the most complete account to date of how it was that specifically Italian forms of diplomacy came to play such a central role, not only in the development of international relations at the European level, but also in the spread and application of humanism and of the new modes of political thinking and political discussion associated with the generations of Machiavelli and Guicciardini.

Communication and Conflict: Italian Diplomacy in the Early Renaissance, 1350-1520 (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History)

History

Lazzarini, Isabella

Europe

Oxford University Press

L'Ordine Delle Scritture: Il Linguaggio Documentario del Potere Nell'italia Tardomedievale (La Storia. Temi) (Italian Edition)

Viella Editrice

This volume aims to investigate the complex theme of social mobility in medieval Italy both by comparing Italian research to contemporary international studies in various European contexts, and by analysing a broad range of themes and specific case studies. Medieval social mobility as a European phenomenon, in fact, still awaits a systematic analysis, and has seldom been investigated iuxta propria principia in social, political and economic history. The essays in the book deal with a number of crucial problems: how is social mobility investigated in European and Mediterranean contexts? How did classic mobility channels such as the Church, officialdom, trade, the law, the lordship or diplomacy contribute to shaping the many variables at play in late medieval societies, and to changing - and challenging - inequality? How did movements and changes in social spaces become visible, and what were their markers? What were the dynamics at the heart of the processes of social mobility in the many territorial contexts of the Italian peninsula?

Social Mobility in Medieval Italy (1100-1500) (Viella Historical Research)

Dyer, Christopher

Poloni, Alma

Gamberini, Andrea

Maire Vigueur, Jean-Claude

Tanzini, Lorenzo

Menant, François

Monnet, Pierre

Milani, Giuliano

Carocci, Sandro

Senatore, Francesco

Silvestri, Alessandro

Terenzi, Pierluigi

Buylaert, Frederik

Collavini, Simone M

Cortese, Maria Elena

de Divitiis, Bianca

Della Misericordia, Massimo

Ferente, Serena

Geens, Sam

Igual Luis, David

Petralia, Giuseppe

Schena, Olivetta

Tognetti, Sergio

Viella

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