Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe examines the norms and practices of collective decision-making across pre-modern European history, east and west, and their influence in shaping both intra- and inter-communal relationships. Offering a wide chronological and geographical scope, it is ideal for academics and students of the history of voting.

Part one: Ideas and Representations; Chapter 1: Not just Voting but being Counted: the Cases of Ancient Greece; Chapter 2: Roman Reflections on Voting Practices: also a Pythagorean Affair; Chapter 3: Cultures of Unanimity in Carolingian Councils; Chapter 4: A Vote for the New World Order: the Dardanelles meeting in 1235 (the Council at Lampsacus-Gallipoli); Chapter 5: Voting at the Council of Constance (1414-18); Chapter 6: Cultures of Secrecy in Pre-Modern Papal Elections; Chapter 7: 'Conforme al vivere civile et politico': Machiavelli's newly discovered proposal for electoral reform in 1512; Chapter 8: A Culture of Voting in Seventeenth-Century England; Chapter 9: Dead and Buried after the Elections? Voting and Citizenship in the Batavian Revolution; Part two: Practices, Institutions, Procedures; Chapter 10: The Culture of Voting in Medieval Split: Appearance and Reality; Chapter 11: From Discussion to Vote: Practices of Political Deliberation and Written Records in Communal Italy; Chapter 12: Parties, Quotas and Elections in Late Medieval Genoa; Chapter 13: The Election of the Abbess: Political Reasons of Monastic Discipline in Renaissance Parma; Chapter 14: Political Decision-Making in the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; Chapter 15:'Il fait bon voir de tout leur sénat ballotter'. The Ubiquity of Voting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Venice; Chapter 16: The Citizens and the King: Voting and Electoral Procedures in Southern Italian Towns under the Aragonese ; Chapter 17: Voting in the Parliaments of the Crown of Aragon, c.1300-1716; Chapter 18: Voting and Elections in the Elite Ragusan Confraternities of St Anthony and St Lazarus; Chapter 19: Voting on the Move: Elections of Caravanbashi by Armenian Merchants in Poland and the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1700; Chapter 20: Municipal Elections and Contested Religious Space: Electoral Practices and Confessional Politics in Mediterranean France during the French Wars of Religion