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This book portrays the life and institutions of a

great medieval Italian city, Siena, through the

surviving records and buildings of the period.

Laws, council minutes, records of the com-

mune's revenue and expenditure, wills and

other charters from the thirteenth century are

among the plentiful material which makes up

the picture of the city republic's institutions and

those who ran them.

The main themes are the political institutions

of the city, and the involvement of the citizens in

them. The preoccupations of the Sienese as

revealed in their conciliar discussions are

studied, as well as their attitudes to government

and well-developed bureaucracy, their territorial

overlordship in southern Tuscany, and their

involvement in diplomacy and war. The religion

of the Sienese is also investigated.

This is a portrait of a special, but not untypical,

society which was engaged in an experiment in

oligarchic self-government. Although the milieu

was urban, Siena's bankers and tradesmen,

craftsmen and those involved in transport and

agricultural labour, were in many cases land-

owners: the city was dependent on and greatly

involved with its rural environment. The pre-

cocity of the commune's governmental methods

and the wealth of information that has survived

mean that the medieval life of this famous and

beautiful Tuscan city can be depicted in full and

convincing detail.

SIENA AND THE SIENESE IN THE

THIRTEENTH CENTURY

the Sienese

in the thirteenth

century

DANIEL WALEY

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