1st Edition
Information and the Government of the Composite Polities of the Renaissance World (c. 1350-1650)
1. Information and the government of the composite polities of the Renaissance world (c. 1350–1650)
Alessandro Silvestri
2. Ruling by information, governing by records: the spoken and written grammar of power in post-communal Italy (c. 1350–1520)
Isabella Lazzarini
3. Archiving the Swiss Tagsatzung in the early modern era: from distributed protocols to confederal archive
Randolph C. Head
4. ‘We want to know and be clearly informed’: official records, unofficial correspondence and oral communication in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon (Majorca, Sardinia, Sicily)
Alessandro Silvestri
5. Jem Sultan and Venice’s intelligence system: sorting and deploying information in Venice’s ‘letterocracy’
Monique O’Connell
6. An imperial formation joins a composite polity: the Portuguese Empire and the information system of the Hispanic Monarchy (1580–1640)
Jorge Flores and Pedro Cardim
7. Manila and their agents in the court: long-distance political communication and imperial configuration in the seventeenth-century Spanish monarchy
Thomas Calvo and Guillaume Gaudin
8. The composite world of early modern information
Filippo de Vivo
Biography
Alessandro Silvestri is Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy. His research focuses on the Mediterranean in the later Middle Ages, with particular attention to Sicily and the Crown of Aragon. His areas of expertise include the history of administration, information management, and taxation.
