{"product_id":"9781801101141","title":"Siena : The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOccupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici-dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High Middle Ages. From the twelfth century, profiting from its advantageous position on a major pilgrim route, the Republic of Siena developed into a major European power and remained an important commercial, financial and artistic centre for four centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, suffered a catastrophic late medieval decline in the aftermath of the Black Death, but transcended the loss of its wider political power to enjoy a prosperous civic afterlife. Siena today enjoys a cherished position as a uniquely well-preserved medieval city, crammed with world-class art and architecture, furnished with appealing and intriguing traditions, and set in a heavenly landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apollo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52904744747317,"sku":"EB_HI0300_J08-03_AD","price":240.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9781801101141-1_32332f9c-dfca-4e8e-86d7-c91348f620db.jpg?v=1790392511","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ja\/products\/9781801101141","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}