The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy

‘Seldom is a collection of essays as well conceptualized and executed as this one…. A valuable work that serves as an excellent introduction to central issues in late medieval and Renaissance Italian political and legal history.’

Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Canadian Journal of History, vol 48: spring-summer 2013

"The articles, contributed by both well-established and younger scholars of Renaissance law and politics, not only pay homage to Martines’s book, but also provide illuminating insights into the areas that gained prominence since its publication."

Eugene Smelyansky, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies

"The collection is even more impressive for offering the non-specialist a technical but jargon-free picture of how lawyers’ thinking mattered for the conceptualization of social bonds and civic belonging before the emergence of a centralized state. Its insights into the legal-discursive networks through which authority was constituted will engage students of European political and legal thought, and its variegated exploration of the consilia on which most of the essays focus will interest students of textual culture in the medieval period and beyond."

Bradin Cormack, University of Toronto Quarterly