Author : William Klapp Williams
Release : 2014-12-07
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Book Synopsis The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century by : William Klapp Williams
Download or read book The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century written by William Klapp Williams. This book was released on 2014-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]term which it possessed in the age in which it was used, carefully distinguishing this from its use in any earlier or later age. The importance of this caution will be soon seen when we come to discuss the origin of corporate life in the communes, where many have been misled by attaching to the words respublica and civitas, for example, so continually recurring in the old laws and charters, a meaning which was entirely foreign to the terms at the period of their use. With this warning, we will turn to a consideration of the first effects of the inroad of the northern barbarians on the cities, whose exhausted and defenseless state has already been pointed out. One of the chief characteristics of the Teutonic tribes which overran Italy during the fifth and sixth centuries, was an innate hatred of cities, of enclosing walls[...]".