The City-state, 1500-1700: republican liberty in an age of princely power

di Richard Mackenney

1989 · 72 pagine · Macmillan · ISBN 9780333387023

Trama

European history between the Renaissance and the General Crisis of the 17th century is dominated by the spectacular triumphs of princes. The development of absolutism was a powerful threat to the liberties which towns had won in the Middle Ages and which were rooted in the aristotelian polis.

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