@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {11559},
      author = {Ridley, Griffin},
      title = {Political Obligation and Self-Sufficiency in Leonardo  Bruni's <i>History of the Florentine  People</i>},
      journal = {Austrian History Yearbook},
      address = {2024-04-16},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Leonardo Bruni (1377–1444), chancellor of Florence, is  today more famous as an initiator of civic humanism and a  proponent of early modern republicanism than as a historian  of medieval Florence. He owes this position most of all to  Hans Baron, who argued that Florentine civic humanism—an  exemplary mode of communal existence dedicated to the  active life—as found particularly in Bruni's writings,  stemmed from the resurgence of interest in antiquity, which  pointed forward to a liberating, civilizing, and  progressive modernity. Though James Hankins has recently  argued that the dual theses of civic humanism and  republicanism are mischaracterizations of the larger thrust  of Italian Renaissance political thought, the scholarly  literature overwhelmingly portrays Leonardo Bruni as  incipiently modern and, by definition, un-medieval. But in  emphasizing the role of antiquity in Bruni's “modern”  thought, scholars have overlooked the importance of  medieval history in the formulation and the content of  Bruni's arguments. This article seeks to rectify this  misappreciation by demonstrating how that quintessential  medieval struggle, the conflict between popes and emperors,  plays a central role in Bruni's political thought as it is  found in the History of the Florentine People, written from  1415/16 to 1444.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/11559},
}