| FT-54454-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Carrie Elizabeth Benes | Roman Foundations: Constructing Civic Identity in Late Medieval Italy | 6/1/2006 - 7/31/2006 | $5,000.00 | Carrie | Elizabeth | Benes | | | | New College of Florida | Sarasota | FL | 34243-2146 | USA | 2006 | European History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
Completion of a book manuscript exploring the construction of urban identity in the northern and central Italian cities in the century between AD 1250 and 1350. I argue that appropriations of the classical past in the late medieval cities attest a broader awareness of classical antiquity than has traditionally been credited to late medieval Italy, and I use both textual and material evidence to evaluate the ways that the Roman past was woven into the culture, politics, and social identities of urban communities. |