Background
Green, Louis Ferdinand was born on September 4, 1929 in Saint Cloud, Paris, France. Arrived in Australia, 1940. Son of Russell and Louie (Cowling) Green.
(The first study in English of the 14th-century Italian de...)
The first study in English of the 14th-century Italian despot, Castruccio Castracani, this work illuminates one of the great historical developments of his age -- the transformation of the medieval world of the Italian city-states into that of the territorial principalities that were to flourish in the Renaissance. Drawing on a full range of archival and chronicle sources, Green examines the rise of Castracani's regime in Lucca and shows how his dominions grew not only as a response to tensions in the preceding social order, but also as a result of changes in the character of warfare. In so doing, the book casts new light on the origins of the Italian Signorie and sets the exploits of this extraordinary ruler within the wider context of the age of transition in which he lived.
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(In Florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuri...)
In Florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the essentially medieval values of the age of Dante were transformed into the intellectual attitudes characteristic of the early Renaissance. Mr Green examines this change as it was reflected in the works of the city's vernacular chroniclers. These merchant historians evolved out of the traditional universal chronicle of the Middle Ages an embryonic form of the modern history, exemplified at the beginning of the fifteenth century by the Istoria di Firenze of Goro Dati. In the course of this transition from chronicle to history, the world-view expressed by the chronicle - which assumed that all that happened contributed to a divinely inspired historical plan - yielded before a more selective conception of the significance of events as possible natural causes of change. At the same time, the ideals underlying the medieval sense of cosmic order, with their other worldly overtones, gave way before the more secular, humanist values of the emerging Renaissance.
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Green, Louis Ferdinand was born on September 4, 1929 in Saint Cloud, Paris, France. Arrived in Australia, 1940. Son of Russell and Louie (Cowling) Green.
Bachelor, University Queensland, 1951. Master of Arts, University Adelaide, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University, 1989.
Research officer Department Defense, Melbourne, Australia, 1951-1957. Tutor history University Adelaide, 1958-1960. Lecturer history University Tasmania, 1961-1966.
Senior lecturer, reader history Monash University, Clayton, Australia, 1967-1994.
(The first study in English of the 14th-century Italian de...)
(In Florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuri...)
Fellow Australian Academy Humanities.
Married Juanita Florence Crook, March 31, 1951 (divorced 1972). Children: Karen, Natalie, Martin. Married Louise McOwan Powell, February 2, 1979.
Children: Lucian, Antonia.