| The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy Subjects: Law -- Italy -- Florence -- History; Law -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Florence -- History; Lawyers -- Italy -- Florence -- History; Martines Lauro. Lawyers and statecraft in Renaissance Florence; Essays by leading historians examine the professional, social, and political functions of Italian jurists from the thirteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. Armstrong Lawrin : Lawrin Armstrong is a professor at the Center for Medieval Studies, cross-appointed to the Departments of History and Economics, at the University of Toronto. Julius Kirshner is an emeritus professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the University of Chicago. Lauro Martines is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. |