{"product_id":"popular-protest-and-ideals-of-democracy-in-late-renaissance-italy-hardcover","title":"Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel K. Cohn Jr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePopular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy\u003c\/em\u003e is the first study to analyse popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on over 100 contemporary chronicles and diaries, the fifty-eight volumes of Marin Sanudo's diplomatic dispatches, mercantile letters, and commentary, and 586 collective supplications scattered through archival sources from towns and villages in the Grand duchy of Milan, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. places these incidents and their patterns in comparative perspectives, first with the late medieval heyday of popular revolt and then with regions north of the Alps. Cohn finds new developments during the early modern period such as an increase in women rebels, mutinies of soldiers, and new tactics of revolts such as shop closures, peaceful demonstrations of strength, and use of religious processions for discussions of tactics and strategies for obtaining logistic advantage. At\u003cbr\u003ethe same time, these protests show convergences with the medieval Italian past, with leaders coming almost exclusively from the ranks of nonelites, religious ideology playing a surprisingly minor role, and the majority of revolts centring overwhelming in towns and cities. Finally, this study demonstrates that democracies do not just die under the duress of military occupation and growing powers of autocratic regimes. Ideals of representation and equality not only persisted; they could emerge in new forms and with greater sophistication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel K. Cohn, Jr., \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamuel K. Cohn, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and teaches at the University of Glasgow. He received his PhD from Harvard, supervised by David Herlihy, in 1978. He has published thirteen monographs, three edited volumes, and over 100 articles in journals such as \u003cem\u003ePast \u0026amp; Present\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEconomic History Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSocial History\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBulletin of the History of Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLes Annales\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eStudi Storici\u003c\/em\u003e. Over the past two decades, he has taught and published on two broad themes: the history of plagues and the history of popular insurrection. In 2017 he was the first 'Federico Chabod Visiting\u003cbr\u003eProfessor', L'Università degli Studi, Milano (Statale).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.5 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158036385927,"sku":"9780192849472","price":196.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/18cdf0cc12dfce556400828eac336766.webp?v=1733255652","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/popular-protest-and-ideals-of-democracy-in-late-renaissance-italy-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}