10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIGNORIAL»
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SIGNORIAL GOVERNMENT During the fourteenth century, the signory brought
enough pacification and stability to a few cities—chiefly Milan, Padua, and
Ferrara—to give risetothe myth thatcivicpeace and signorial government went
together.
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The Court Cities of Northern Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, ...
One of the characteristics that distinguished the North Italian cities discussed
here was the role that signorial governments played in most of them.1
Traditionally, the signori have been characterized as despots, or tyrants,2 labels
that denote ...
Charles M. Rosenberg, 2010
3
Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages
The framework of signorial rights seems to have lifted political power away from
direct landholding, for such rights were separable from rents, and were often over
people who were not tenants; they created a new arena for political practice that
...
Wendy Davies, Paul Fouracre, 2002
Not only did they employ against the signorial courts the same weapons which
were used by the English judges, but they borrowed a special instrument of
attack from the Roman law, by insisting on their right to hear appeals from all ...
Not only did they employ against the signorial courts the same weapons which
were used by the English judges, but they borrowed a special instrument of
attack from the Roman law, by insisting on their right to hear appeals from all ...
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Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Philip Jones certainly knew of Ercole's work, but as far as I am aware the term '
diarchy' never appeared in his discussion of signorial government.16 The article
that lies behind this collection of essays, 'Communes and Despots: the City State
...
Bernadette Paton, John Easton Law, 2010
7
Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political ...
ities of the Italian city-states, we need make no such choice, since even self-
governing communes with an active civic corporation could exist under the
lordship of the Holy Roman Empire (even if imperial power typically supported
signorial ...
Ellen Meiksins Wood, 2011
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
There is a general agreement among historians of French law that this later
tenderness of the French Parliaments to signorial rights and signorial
jurisdictions is attributable to the interest which the French ' nobility of the gown '
had acquired in ...
Sir Henry Sumner Maine, 1891
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A History of Medieval Political Thought: 300–1450
Certainly, the character of Carolingian monarchy was thereby considerably
complicated, in that the signorial aspect of kingship came into clearer relief
beside the theocratic. Because the central idea of theocratic monarchy was the
divine ...
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The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler ...
... and it is this gain which checks the advance in the individual principle, forwhat
this principle gains from the communal it loses to the signorial. This change,
indicating as it does, the growing importance of social differentiation, is
accentuated ...
L. T. Hobhouse, G. C. Wheeler, M Ginsberg, 2013
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIGNORIAL»
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signorial is used in the context of the following news items.
Maavärinad võivad hävitada Michelangelo Taaveti kuju
Asjatundjate uuring näitas, et kuju pahkluupiirkonda tekkinud mõrad on tingitud sellest, et kuju oli Piazza della Signorial pikka aega viie kraadi võrra kaldu. «Postimees, Dec 14»
How copyright infringement explains modern Russia
If you do something nice and meaningful for someone, you may claim signorial ownership over them. Russian artists are special and they, therefore, are ... «The New Republic, Feb 14»
