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Everyone has the capacity for emotions. But the way emotions are perceived, expressed, and sharedand#151;that is determined by the rules imposed by the society of the time, along with language, cultural practices, expectations, and moral beliefs. In this fascinating look at the interplay of power with public and private emotions in fifteenth-century Italy, Fabrizio Ricciardelli, Andrea Zorzi, and their contributors show that emotions are created by the society in which they are expressed and conditioned. Exploring a variety of official discourses, cultural phenomena, and artifacts, the essays here examine everything from the emotional language of the court to the emotions that arose during times of public executions or outbreaks of disease.and#160;
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Synopsis
A collection of the best recent research on the Republic of Florence in Tuscany during the Renaissance.
Synopsis
The book collects the best recent research on the important dominion that was created by the Republic of Florence in Tuscany during the Renaissance. The essays include studies of state-building, fiscal policy, and the personal and political relations of Florentines with the inhabitants of subject communities.
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The physical and mental capacity of having emotions is universal. However, the ways in which emotions are perceived, expressed, and shared are historically determined by the codified rules imposed by the society of the time and the personal background. Emotions depend on language, cultural practices, expectations, and moral beliefs. This means that every culture has its rules for feelings and behavior; every culture thus exerts certain restraints while favoring certain forms of expressivity. Hate, fear, cruelty, and love are always turning history into the history of passion and lust, because emotional life is always ready to overflow into intellectual life. This fascinating study of emotion in Renaissance Italy shows that emotions are built and created by the society in which they are expressed and conditioned. The contributors examine, among others, the emotional language of the court, around public execution and during outbreaks of disease.
Description
o0s9 Includes bibliographical references and index.
About the Author
Fabrizio Ricciardelli is director and professor of Renaissance European history at Kent State University in Ohio.
Andrea Zorzi is professor of medieval history at the University of Florence, Italy.
Table of Contents
Preface William J. Connell; 1. The âmaterial constitutionâof the Florentine dominion Andrea Zorzi; 2. The language of empire Alison Brown; 3. Constitutional ambitions, legal realities and the Florentine state Jane Black; 4. Fiscality, politics and dominion in Florentine Tuscany Giuseppe Petralia; 5. Market structures Stephan R. Epstein; 6. State-building, church reform and the politics of legitimacy David S. Peterson; 7. The humanist citizen as provincial governor William J. Connell; 8. Territorial offices and office holders Laura De Angelis; 9. Demography and the politics of fiscality Samuel K. Cohn Jr; 10. Florentines and the communities of the territorial state Patrizia Salvadori; 11. Patronage and its role in government: the Florentine patriciate and Volterra Lorenzo Fabbri; 12. San Miniato al Tedesco: the evolution of the political class Francesco Salvestrini; 13. The social classes of Colle Val dâElsa and the formation of the dominion Oretta Muzzi; 14. Arezzo, the Medici and the Florentine regime Robert Black; 15. Rubrics and requests: statutory division and supra-communal clientage in Pistoia Stephen J. Milner; 16. A comment Giorgio Chittolini.