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Medieval Naples
A Documentary History
400–1400
Historical Texts
Edited by
Ronald G. Musto
Medieval Naples, 400–1400: A Documentary History is the first comprehensive and most complete English-language collection of sources yet to treat the history of the city from late Antiquity to the beginnings of the Renaissance. Sources are drawn from the historical, economic, literary, artistic, religious and cultural life from the fall of Rome through the Byzantine, Lombard, Norman, Hohenstaufen and Angevin periods.
A new Introduction by Ronald G. Musto offers a comprehensive survey of the periods covered in the historical texts, with a discussion of the historiography and of important research and interpretive issues. These include the material development of the medieval city from Late Antiquity through the end of the Angevin period, the condition and use of the available primary sources and archaeological evidence, with particular attention given to the wide variety of recent excavations and of archival materials, the question of the ruralization and recovery of its urban core through the little known Ducal period — with some discussion of the city’s changing population — the question of Naples’ importance as a commercial and political capital, its developing economic and material base, and the question of its relationship to its hinterland on the one hand and to broader Mediterranean contexts on the other. It also surveys the changes in Naples’ grid plan, its walls and fortifications, its port, and its commercial and residential development. It complements the discussions in Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo’s Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History by examining the archival evidence for the survival of the city's less important architectural remains. For the later Middle Ages, Musto traces the complex historiography of what he terms the “black legend of the Angevins.” This edition includes interactive, comprehensive notes and bibliographical references.
This title is one of Italica’s born-digital works and is now offered exclusively on the Kindle platform for both the Kindle itself and the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch. It incorporates all the texts available until now on the Medieval Naples section of our website and adds a new general introduction to the period, its historiography, and important research and interpretive issues. It will soon also be available in hardcover and paperback editions.
It takes full advantage of digital resources: hyperlinking to complete bibliographical information on WorldCat, to Italica Press image galleries, to external web resources, including digital archives and manuscript collections, online reference works and images, and to our own online bibliographies and Interactive Map of Medieval Naples.
As new texts are added or exisiting texts revised, your Kindle edition will be automatically updated at no extra charge.
Historical Texts offer chronicles and histories; archival materials including accounts, tax, financial and commercial records, contracts, wills, notarial and government documents; poetry, romances, biographies and letters; liturgical and hagiographical texts; treatises on law, science, medicine, religion and philosophy; as well as examples of manuscript production, painting, architecture, and sculpture.
Resources include photos, video and sound, paintings, maps, drawings and engravings, ground plans and elevations.
A Documentrary History of Naples offers online bibliographies and image galleries, interactive Google mapping and Google Earth views to produce an ongoing and robust presentation of current research.
Clearly and concisely written, this series is an ideal introductory survey for the scholar, student and general reader to medieval Naples, its chief monuments, and to the scholarly discussions and interpretations of the material, visual and documentary evidence.
Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0064P03ZC
Price: $9.99
Copyright © 2012
ITALICA PRESS, INC.
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