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Cover 1 Contents 10 General Editor’s Preface 6 Acknowledgements 8 List of contributors 14 Introduction: The many Italies of the Middle Ages 16 PART I: RULERS AND SUBJECTS 40 1 Cities and communes 42 Introduction 42 Origins of the communes 44 Civic institutions, office-holding, and law 50 Warfare and city leagues 57 Urban elites and factionalism 63 Conclusion 71 2 Law and monarchy in the south 73 Norman unification 74 The Norman kingdom of Sicily 77 The kingdom as a political entity 78 Kingship and the royal court 79 Norman administration 81 The kings’ ambitions and diplomacy 83 Transition 84 Frederick II 85 Restoration of royal authority 86 The Norman inheritance 87 A changed kingdom 88 The dismemberment of Frederick II’s dominion 90 Charles of Anjou and the two kingdoms 91 The Sicilian Vespers and arrival of the king of Aragon 94 The two kingdoms of Sicily and Naples 95 3 Papal Italy 97 Introduction 97 The pope and the emperors 101 The papal recovery 104 Institutions 106 North and south 108 Papal itineration 110 Development and support for the faith 113 Defending the faith: heresy 115 The Jubilee 117 Conclusion 117 4 The rise of the signori 119 Piacenza 124 Verona 126 Milan 129 Fe

Author

David Abulafia;

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