A Companion to Medieval Pisa

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-38258-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 626 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1328 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to European History

Presenting medieval Pisa in a multidisciplinary study, A Companion to Medieval Pisa provides a comprehensive overview of the city at the time of its greatest fame and prosperity. The volume addresses central aspects of the city’s history: its geomorphology and orientation towards the Mediterranean Sea; its ancient past; the archaeological basis for the study of the medieval city and its built environment; Pisa’s urban and port infrastructure; its social organization and political and economic history; its cultural achievements in the visual and literary arts; and the legacy of the medieval past for the city today.

Contributors are: David Abulafia, Monica Bini, Veronica Rossi, Stefano Bruni, Antonio Alberti, Gabriele Gattiglia, Alma Poloni, Giuseppe Petralia, Gabriella Garzella, Ewa Karwacka Codini, Cédric Quertier, Michele Campopiano, Michel Balard, Fabio Redi, Olimpia Vaccari, Mauro Ronzani, Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut, Ottavio Banti, Marco Collareta, Karen Rose Mathews, Cristina Cagianelli, and Franco Cardini.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mathews, Karen Rose

Orvietani Busch, Silvia

Bruni, Stefano

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Legacy of Medieval Pisa

Karen Rose Mathews and Silvia Orvietani Busch

Prologue: Pisa in Perspective

David Abulafia

PART 1: Origins and Geomorphology

1 Pisa and Its Natural Environment

Monica Bini and Veronica Rossi

2 The Origins: The Etruscan Polis and Roman Civitas

Stefano Bruni

Part 2: Archaeology

3 Pisa in the Early Medieval Period

Antonio Alberti

4 Medieval Archaeology and Excavations

Gabriele Gattiglia

Part 3: Political and Institutional History

5 Politics, Institutions and Society in Pisa during the Communal Era (Late Eleventh to Late Fourteenth Century)

Alma Poloni

6 The Late Middle Ages and the Florentine Conquest

Giuseppe Petralia

Part 4: Urban History

7 Urban History, Topography, and Social Organization

Gabriella Garzella

8 Creating a New forma urbis: Pisa’s Evolving Cityscape from the Golden Age to the Florentine Conquest

Ewa Karwacka Codini

Part 5: Economic Organization and Mediterranean Expansion

9 The Pisan Economy from the Tenth to Fifteenth Century: A Parabolic Trajectory

Cédric Quertier

10 Maritime Expansion into the Western Mediterranean

Michele Campopiano

11 Trade and Interactions with Outremer: The Pisans in the East from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century

Michel Balard

Part 6: Port Systems and Infrastructure

12 The Port Structures of Medieval Pisa: Organization, Form, and Functionality

Fabio Redi

13 The Mediterranean Port System of Pisa: Role, Management, and Evolution

Olimpia Vaccari

Part 7: Religious Life and Ecclesiastical Institutions

14 Bishops, Archbishops, and Religious Institutions from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century

Mauro Ronzani

15 The Pisan Churches and Cult of Saints

Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut

Part 8: Cultural Life and History

16 Culture and Literature in Pisa from the Eighth to the Fourteenth Century

Ottavio Banti

17 Art in Pisa in the Middle Ages

Marco Collareta

18 Pisan Bacini and the Churches of Pisa

Karen Rose Mathews

19 The Image of Pisa in the Medieval Figurative Arts

Cristina Cagianelli

Epilogue: The Iconic Status of Medieval Pisa and Its Urban Form

Franco Cardini

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Rose Mathews, Ph.D. (1995), University of Chicago, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. She has published numerous articles on Mediterranean visual culture and a recent monograph, Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150 (Brill, 2018).

Silvia Orvietani Busch, Ph.D. (1996), University of California, Los Angeles, is an Associate Scholar at the UCLA CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies. She has published several articles on the Mediterranean Middle Ages and a monograph, Medieval Mediterranean Ports. The Catalan and Tuscan Coasts, 1100 to 1235 (Brill, 2001).

Stefano Bruni, Ph.D. (1991), Universities of Pisa, Firenze, and Siena, is Professor of Etruscology and Italic Archaeology at the University of Ferrara. He has published on Etruscan civilization and the history of its collections, including Pisa la città delle navi. Il porto urbano di Pisa etrusca e romana dallo scavo al museo(ETS, 2003).