Cite
Save
Share This
Email this content

Share Link

Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100337364?p=emailAg/ajmkCbUshw&d=/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100337364
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.

Link copied successfully

popolo

Quick Reference

[Italian, ‘the common people’] The popolo arose and organized neighbourhood cadres in Italian city-states to oppose the oppression of knights—milites or magnates. Before 1300 the sources rarely delineated the precise ...

From: popolo in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages »

Subjects:

Reference entries

Search for: 'popolo' in Oxford Reference »

Oxford University Press

PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).

date: 25 June 2025

Browse All

Browse All

Share Link

Related Content

'popolo' can also refer to...

popolo

Quick Reference

Reference entries

Browse All

Browse All

Recently viewed (0)

Recently viewed (0)

Share Link

Related Content

'popolo' can also refer to...

popolo

Quick Reference

Related content in Oxford Reference

Reference entries