Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brucker, Gene A.

Titel

"The Horseshoe Nail": Structure and Contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Ist Teil von

• Renaissance quarterly, 2001-03, Vol.54 (1), p.1-19

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Renaissance Society of America

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay considers the role of contingency in the history of late medieval and Renaissance Italy. Were there any events -- a birth, marriage, or death; a battle; a natural catastrophe -- that might have changed decisively the trajectory of Italian history? The Roman papacy is one institution whose history, replete with contingent events (1305, 1378, 1418, 1527) had a profound impact on Italian experience. The foreign invasions of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were the product of a cluster of historical accidents in France and Spain, which combined to create the most significant development in the early modern history of Italy.