The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 244
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780190612726
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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D - War, conflict and society
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first modern biography of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici of Florence, situating the man in his cultural, political and social context. Drawing on documents from archives in Florence, Mantua, Massa, Rome, the Vatican and Venice, as well as extensive work with printed sources, it draws together a variety of themes that might have been handled in separate publications. These include the material culture of the court, the political dynamics of 1530s Florence, and the shifting narratives of Alessandro’s race/ethnicity. As a narrative biography it was also necessary to attend to the literary genre of life-writing.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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