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Siena

- The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City
Af: Jane Stevenson Engelsk Paperback

Siena

- The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City
Af: Jane Stevenson Engelsk Paperback
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An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.

Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici-dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High Middle Ages. From the twelfth century, profiting from its advantageous position on a major pilgrim route, the Republic of Siena developed into a major European power and remained an important commercial, financial and artistic centre for four centuries.

Jane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, suffered a catastrophic late medieval decline in the aftermath of the Black Death, but transcended the loss of its wider political power to enjoy a prosperous civic afterlife. Siena today enjoys a cherished position as a uniquely well-preserved medieval city, crammed with world-class art and architecture, furnished with appealing and intriguing traditions, and set in a heavenly landscape.

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An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.

Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici-dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High Middle Ages. From the twelfth century, profiting from its advantageous position on a major pilgrim route, the Republic of Siena developed into a major European power and remained an important commercial, financial and artistic centre for four centuries.

Jane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, suffered a catastrophic late medieval decline in the aftermath of the Black Death, but transcended the loss of its wider political power to enjoy a prosperous civic afterlife. Siena today enjoys a cherished position as a uniquely well-preserved medieval city, crammed with world-class art and architecture, furnished with appealing and intriguing traditions, and set in a heavenly landscape.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9781801101158
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1801101159
Kategori: Siena
Udg. Dato: 12 okt 2023
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 130mm
Højde: 200mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 12 okt 2023
Forfatter(e): Jane Stevenson
Forfatter(e) Jane Stevenson


Kategori Siena


ISBN-13 9781801101158


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 416


Udgave


Længde 26mm


Bredde 130mm


Højde 200mm


Udg. Dato 12 okt 2023


Oplagsdato 12 okt 2023


Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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