Let's work those history muscles and see if we can nail it down to at least a specific decade while still trying to stay on the right side of the evolutionary theory literature
Let's work those history muscles and see if we can nail it down to at least a specific decade while still trying to stay on the right side of the evolutionary theory literature
I know that many of the Italian city states like Venice, Genoa, Florence were oligarchical republics unlike the monarchies surrounding them. Would it be fair to say they were similar to, if not an example of, a DotB?
From quickly scanning Wikipedia articles, their governments seem to have a bizarre mixture of feudal and liberal elements. For example, the Venetian doge was styled similar to a monarch, but he was also an elected official and had increasingly diminished political power. They had a legislative body that was filled with oligarchs, but the oligarchs then conspired to make the legislative body de facto hereditary, turning themselves into a form of aristocracy. Overall, they feel like republics with feudal characteristics.
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