Jane Stevenson: Siena
Siena
Buch
- The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 10/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781801101158
- Bestellnummer: 11140139
- Umfang: 416 Seiten
- Gewicht: 315 g
- Maße: 200 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 26 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 12.10.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
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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Jane Stevenson
Siena
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