Italian States and Kingdoms: History and Historic Sites
Italian history encompasses Lombard communities, papal territories, maritime republics, duchies and kingdoms, each with its own institutions and building traditions. Monasteries, civic palaces, cathedrals and coastal fortresses preserve this range. The sites collection includes their construction beyond the peninsula, from Genoese Galata to Venetian Crete, alongside buildings in Italy. Its grouped scope retains the identities of the states and communities represented.
Explore Italian states and kingdoms sites
Explore more than 2,500 sites of Italian states and kingdoms, from Lombard monasteries to civic palaces and maritime fortresses, with a map and articles.
Daily life
Daily Life in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Cities: Households, Work, and Community
Household property, workshop labour, food supply, grooming, practical schooling and lay associations shaped everyday life in Italian cities.
- Clothing, Grooming and Public Appearance in Italian Towns: Dress as Social Language
- Everyday Religion, Parish Life and Festivals in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Towns
- Food, Markets and Festivities in Italian Towns: Provisioning, Cooking and Carnival
- Games, Music and Public Entertainment in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Towns
- Italian Urban Households: Marriage, Property and Domestic Space
- Learning, Literacy and Care in Italian Urban Communities: Schools, Universities and Hospitals
History and society
Italian cities linked divided political powers with trade, skilled production, religious institutions and Mediterranean connections.
- Building Italian Cities: Civic Palaces, Churches and Urban Space
- Guilds, Workshops and Manufacturing in Italian Cities
- Italian Communes, Republics and Lordships: Civic Government and the Rise of Regional States
- Italian States: Political Power from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Era
- Religion, Brotherhoods and Charity in Italian Cities: Institutions of Care and Civic Life
- The Maritime Republics of Italy: Trade, Government and Overseas Power