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Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433 Friends of Friends in the Kingdom of Hungary
By Katalin Prajda
Copyright 2018
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. Analyzing the social network of these politicians, merchants, artisans, royal officers, dignitaries of the Church, and noblemen is the primary objective of this book. The study addresses both descriptively the patterns of... Read more
Introduction,Chapter I. Florentine Networks in Europe, Chapter II. The Centre of the Network: The Scolari Family, Chapter III. The Inner Circle of the Network: Friends of Blood and Marriage, Chapter IV. The Outer Circle of the Network: Friends of Business, Chapter V. The Periphery of the Network: Friends of Commission, Conclusions. Network and Migration, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Katalin Prajda is a historian of Renaissance Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in 2011 from the European University Institute, Florence. She has been a postdoctoral scholar at various research institutes, among others at the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago; the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Advanced Study — Central European University. She studies the intersections of trade, political, kinship, and artistic networks in early Renaissance Italy.
