© 1995 The University of Chicago Press
All rights reserved. Published 1996
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN (cl.) 0-226-43769-8
ISBN (pa.) 0-226-43770-1

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600, Edited by Julius
Kirshner. (Studies in European history form the Journal of modern history)
The essays in this volume originally appeared in The Journal of
modem history, December 1995 supplement.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-226-43769-8 (cloth),  ISBN 0-226-43770-1 (pbk.)

Contents

Editors' Note

JULIUS KIRSHNER
Introduction: The State Is "Back In"

Pierangelo SCHIERA
Legitimacy, Discipline, and Institutions: Three Necessary
Conditions for the Birth of the Modem State

Giorgio Chittolini
The "Private," the "Public," the State

Aldo MAZZACANE
Law and Junsts in the Formation of the Modem State in Italy

ELENA FASANO GUARINI
Center and Periphery

ANTHONY MOLHO
The State and Public Finance: A Hypothesis Based on the History of Late Medieval Florence

TREVOR DEAN
The Courts

ROBERTO BIZZOCCHI
Church, Religion, and State in the Early Modem Period

RICCARDO FUBINI
The Italian League and the Policy of the Balance of Power at the Accession of Lorenzo de' Medici

INDEX