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[Book Review] Chris Wickham. Sleepwalking into a New World: the Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century. Princeton, 2015.
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[Book Review] Chris Wickham. Sleepwalking into a New World: the Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century. Princeton, 2015.
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The book by Chris Wickham contributes greatly to the historiography of the genesis of city communes in Northern and Central Italy in the late 11th — 12th centuries. and more broadly to the discussion on the involvement of civic consciousness in city communes and their impact on the origins of modernity. The author examines narrative and documentary sources using methods of historical analysis and prosopography. The latter especially allows him to throw light on social change that accompanied the formation of communes. Wickham shows that communes were mostly created by new elites while old aristocracy lost interest in city life. However, the new elites did not bring new civic values, still staying within traditional social paradigm.
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Maria Aleksandrova
Higher School of Economics
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