Siena : The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City Hardback
by Jane Stevenson
Hardback
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:432 pages, 100 integrated col
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:13/10/2022
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- ISBN:9781801101141
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:432 pages, 100 integrated col
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:13/10/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781801101141
