FORMATION OF MONARCHY AND POSITION OF THE POWER ELITE IN FLORENCE

Research Project

Project/Area Number	06610356
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	History of Europe and America
Research Institution	SHINSHU UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	SAITO Hiromi SHINSHU UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF EDUCATION,PROFESSOR, 教育学部, 教授 (00020628)
Project Period (FY)	1994 – 1996
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000) Fiscal Year 1996: ¥200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000) Fiscal Year 1995: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000) Fiscal Year 1994: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywords	TUSCANY / TOSCANA / FLORENCE / FIRENZE / THE MEDICI / I MEDICI / MONARCHIY / MONARCHIA / POWER STRACTURE / STRUTTURA DEL POTERE
Research Abstract	I get the prospects for the problem "Why not the oligarchy, but the monarchy was appeared in traditionaly republican Florence". In the 15th century, the Florentine power structure fell in crisis, because of the enlargement of the power disparity not only between Florence and the subordinate cities, but also between her elites and her masses. To overcome this crisis, the elites concenterated the powers in their hands, but by the "republican" regime they could not overcome, because in this regime the power was exercised too small numbered people. In the 16th century, the monarch appeared to adjust the conflicting powers i. e. the different interests between abovementioned elements, controling the elites, and at the same time guaranteeing their socioeconomic vested rights. In my paper The territorial structure of the Granduchy of Tuscany, I showed the prosess to become courtiers of the elites, and the structure of territoral government under the Florentine monarchy.