Niall Atkinson
Niall Atkinson
Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literature, and the College
University of Chicago
Research Project
The Changing Social and Rhetorical Foundations of Florentine Republicanism
Project Team:
2014 – 2018
Project Summary
Art historians and political scientists drew from a uniquely rich dataset of social networks among approximately 60,000 Florentines over the period 1350–1530 to explore the tumultuous political history of Florence.
Throughout history, political factions and conflicts organizationally were assembled out of evolving social, economic and patronage networks. At the same time, those factions and conflicts were expressed and articulated through evolving semantic languages, at the levels of both public and private debate. Building upon an unusual data set of social networks among approximately 60,000 Florentines over two centuries, this Neubauer research project sought to document and explain the tumultuous political history of Florentine republicanism over the period 1350-1530, both from the social-network and from the rhetorical perspectives.
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