TY - EJOUR AU - Eugenio Riversi T1 - Matilda and the Cities: Testing a “Figurational” Approach TT - AB - The relation between Matilda of Tuscany and the cities of the Italian Kingdom has to date often been the subject of short case studies or of overly general considerations, such as the opposition between ‘feudal’ and ‘communal’ power. The article aims to propose an interpretation of this relationship based on a ‘figurational’ approach, i.e., one that focuses on an entanglement of interdependencies and interactions between multiple actors (prince, bishops, cathedral chapters, urban monasteries, lay groups). This figurational view confirms the complexity of the context of the emergence of city-communes. AD - University of Bonn, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft , Abteilung für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Konviktstraße 11, 53113, Bonn, Germany CY - Bologna DO - 10.12977/stor667