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      Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy

      Samuel K. Cohn

      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 a vast range of contemporary…

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      The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

      A fascinating and groundbreaking study, challenging the view that the Black Death was the same as the modern rat-based bubonic plague.

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      Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

      Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts…

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      Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr (University of Glasgow)

      This book takes a comprehensive approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance by examining the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state and the political effects of widespread and…

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      Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr (University of Glasgow)

      This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance by examining the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state and the political effects of widespread and…

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      Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (University of Glasgow)

      This Element explores the longest spell that can be computed from quantifiable fiscal records when the gap between rich and poor narrowed. It was the post-Black-Death century, c. 1375 to…

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      Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr (University of Glasgow)

      Popular protests in medieval English towns were as frequent and as sophisticated, if not more so, as those in the countryside. This groundbreaking study refocuses attention on the leadership, social…

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      Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr (University of Glasgow)

      Popular protests in medieval English towns were as frequent and as sophisticated, if not more so, as those in the countryside. This groundbreaking study refocuses attention on the leadership, social…

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      Cultures of Plague: Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow)

      Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of…

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      Cultures of Plague: Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow)

      Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians…

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      The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

      David Herlihy

      Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of…

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      Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy

      Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr.

      Challenging conventional views of the history of women in the Italian Renaissance, these seven essays examine the lives primarily of non-elite women and looks at their experiences in various city-states…

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      The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy

      Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr.

      In 1363, the Black Death struck central Italy for a second time, causing a shift in notions of the afterlife and patterns of charitable giving. In this study, the author…

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      Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Professor of Medieval History, Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow)

      In this study, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant…

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      Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy

      Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Professor of Medieval History, Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow)

      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 a vast range of contemporary…

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