Rulers of Milan 1287-1535
Introduction
1: Plenitude of Power: Absolutism in the Middle Ages
2: The Early Visconti and the Claim to Plenitude of Power
3: Giangaleazzo's Investiture and its Legacy
4: Lawyers and the Absolute Powers of the Duke
5: Plenitude of Power in Practice: The Problem of Preserving
Justice while Infringing Rights
6: Lawyers and the Repudiation of Ducal Absolutism
7: Francesco II and the Surrender of Absolute Power
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Black deftly lays out relevant events and official actions with
clarity and a level of detail that respects her goal.
*Joseph P. Byrne, History*
Janet Black here offers a careful and detailed account which takes
seriously not only the part played by strategy, intimidation, and
violence, but also - and perhaps more so - by legal arguments. ...
this book is important not only for those aiming to understand the
Visconti and Sforza regimes, but for the evolution of government
from late medieval tyrannies into early modern absolutism.
*Nicholas Terpstra, The Sixteenth Century Journal*
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