{"product_id":"9781801101158","title":"Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City","description":"Author: Stevenson, Jane\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781801101158\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 Jan 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOccupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici-dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High Middle Ages. From the twelfth century, profiting from its advantageous position on a major pilgrim route, the Republic of Siena developed into a major European power and remained an important commercial, financial and artistic centre for four centuries.\u003cbr\u003eJane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, suffered a catastrophic late medieval decline in the aftermath of the Black Death, but transcended the loss of its wider political power to enjoy a prosperous civic afterlife. Siena today enjoys a cherished position as a uniquely well-preserved medieval city, crammed with world-class art and architecture, furnished with appealing and intriguing traditions, and set in a heavenly landscape.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636901236894,"sku":"UBD-9781801101158","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781801101158.jpg?v=1774399264","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781801101158","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}