TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Alexander
TI  - Humanism and empire: the imperial ideal in fourteenth-century Italy 
SN  - 9780191753107 (ebook) :
AV  - DG533 
U1  - 320.94509023 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Humanism
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1268-1559
KW  - Holy Roman Empire
KW  - To 1517
N1  - This edition previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly civic in outlook. Often serving in communal government, 14th-century humanists like Albertino Mussato and Coluccio Saltuati are said to have derived from their reading of the Latin classics a rhetoric of republican liberty that was opposed to the 'tyranny' of neighbouring signori and of the German emperors. In this study, Alexander Lee challenges this long-held belief. From the death of Frederick II in 1250 to the failure of Rupert of the Palatinate's ill-fated expedition in 1402, Lee argues, the humanists nurtured a consistent and powerful affection for the Holy Roman Empire. Though this was articulated in a variety of different ways, it was nevertheless driven more by political conviction than by cultural concerns
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199675159.001.0001
ER  -