Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Historical and Literary Connections between Britain and Italy in the Middle Ages
- 1 Writing, Translating and Imagining Italy in the Polychronicon
- 2 Richard de Bury, Petrarch and Avignon
- 3 The Reception of Italian Political Theory in Northern England: Bartolus of Saxoferrato and Giles of Rome in York
- 4 Italian Firms in Late Medieval England and their Bankruptcy: Re-reading an Old History of Financial Crisis
- 5 ‘Nostri Fratelli da Londra’: The Lucchese Community in Late Medieval England
- 6 ‘Saluti da Londra’: Italian Merchants in the City of London in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries
- 7 Political Joachism and the English Franciscans: The Rumour of Richard II's Return
- 8 Urban History in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: The Influence of Classical and Italian Models
- Afterword: The Nature of Anglo-Italian Cultural Exchanges
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Historical and Literary Connections between Britain and Italy in the Middle Ages
- 1 Writing, Translating and Imagining Italy in the Polychronicon
- 2 Richard de Bury, Petrarch and Avignon
- 3 The Reception of Italian Political Theory in Northern England: Bartolus of Saxoferrato and Giles of Rome in York
- 4 Italian Firms in Late Medieval England and their Bankruptcy: Re-reading an Old History of Financial Crisis
- 5 ‘Nostri Fratelli da Londra’: The Lucchese Community in Late Medieval England
- 6 ‘Saluti da Londra’: Italian Merchants in the City of London in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries
- 7 Political Joachism and the English Franciscans: The Rumour of Richard II's Return
- 8 Urban History in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: The Influence of Classical and Italian Models
- Afterword: The Nature of Anglo-Italian Cultural Exchanges
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018