Introduction: Historical and Literary Connections between Britain and Italy in the Middle Ages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. List of Abbreviations xi
7. Introduction: Historical and Literary Connections between Britain and Italy in the Middle Ages 1
8. 1 Writing, Translating and Imagining Italy in the Polychronicon 8
9. 2 Richard de Bury, Petrarch and Avignon 40
10. 3 The Reception of Italian Political Theory in Northern England: Bartolus of Saxoferrato and Giles of Rome in York 52
11. 4 Italian Firms in Late Medieval England and their Bankruptcy: Re-reading an Old History of Financial Crisis 67
12. 5 ‘Nostri Fratelli da Londra’: The Lucchese Community in Late Medieval England 87
13. 6 ‘Saluti da Londra’: Italian Merchants in the City of London in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries 103
14. 7 Political Joachism and the English Franciscans: The Rumour of Richard II’s Return 128
15. 8 Urban History in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: The Influence of Classical and Italian Models 150
16. Afterword: The Nature of Anglo-Italian Cultural Exchanges 179
17. Bibliography 182
18. Index 204