Garrisoning the Borderlands of Medieval Siena
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Andrea Di
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century
colle
Della
Di Piero
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Early Fourteenth Century
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fourteenth
Frati Minori
frontier
Frontier Castle
frontier fortifications
Giovanni Di
government
hospital
Italian social history
Kitchen Garden
land tenure systems
Lando Di
Living Accommodation
Madonna Della Misericordia
medieval Siena rural society
medieval urbanism
religious patronage
River Orcia
San Biagio
San Pietro
San Quirico
sant'angelo
Santa Maria Della
Sharecropping Agreements
sienese
Sienese Citizens
Sienese Contado
Sienese Government
Sienese Hospital
Sienese Officials
Sienese State
Village Hospital
Water Conduit
Product details
- ISBN 9781409426035
- Weight: 1000g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Through a close study of local demographies and topographies, this study considers patterns of piety, charity and patronage, and by extension, the development of art and architecture in Siena's southern contado during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Garrisoning the Borderlands of Medieval Siena describes Sant'Angelo in Colle as a designated 'castello di frontiera' under the Sienese Government of the Nine (1287-1355), against the background of Siena's military and economic buoyancy during the early fourteenth century. At the same time, mining thoroughly the Tax Record of 1320 and the Boundary Registration of 1318 and presenting a large number of individual records that have not been published before-including wills, tenancy agreements, land exchange and sharecropping contracts-the author constructs a portrait of the people, buildings and surrounding countryside of Sant'Angelo in Colle. Finally, adopting the methodological approach of first considering patterns of ownership of land and property in the context of identifying potential patrons of art, the study considers patterns of piety and charity established in the early fourteenth-century village and the extent to which these affected the development of the urban fabric and the embellishment of key buildings in medieval Sant'Angelo in Colle.
After a career in University teaching in the UK, most recently in the department of Art History at Birkbeck College, University of London, Anabel Thomas has for the last ten years lived in Tuscany. She is the author of The Painter's Practice in Renaissance Tuscany (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Art and Piety in the Female Religious Communities of Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2003) as well as of articles in learned periodicals in the UK, USA, and Italy.
