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(0)Chris Wickham
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Chris Wickham is professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Oxford.
A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian commune
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally...