A Weak Dominance: Winds of Revolt in Florentine Territory (the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century)

• Authors: Paolo Pirillo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

This article highlights some of the challenges the nascent Florentine territorial state faced in the second half of the fourteenth century, after it was visited with the Great Plague of 1348. When mercenaries began to cross the territory, and the ruling class found itself unable to handle this kind of emergency, the exurban population turned to forms of self-defence. These initiatives resemble the coeval ones undertaken by the Tuchins in Normandy or those in Languedoc and southern Piedmont.

Keywords

PL

Italy; Florence; Middle Ages; countryside; contado; peasants; mercenaries

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 119

Dates

published

2019

online

2019-09-01

Contributors

author

Paolo Pirillo

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/APH.2019.119.08