Patrons and adversaries : nobles and villagers in Italian politics, 1640-1760 /

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Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its "vassals", clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers sometimes cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted it through the strategies of adversarial literacy, political ways...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Castiglione, Caroline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Barberini family.
Barberini (Famille)
Barberini family
1420-1799
Nobility > Italy > Rome > History.
Feudalism > Italy > Monte Libretti > History.
Villages > Italy > Monte Libretti > History.
Papacy > History > 1566-1799.
Papauté > Histoire > 1565-1799.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Feudalism
Nobility
Papacy
Politics and government
Villages
Monte Libretti (Italy) > History.
Rome (Italy) > Politics and government > 1420-1798.
Rome (Italie) > Administration > 1420-1798.
Italy > Monte Libretti
Italy > Rome
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Barberini buy a piece of paradise while they descend into hell
  • Before it was a dirty word : politics in the Roman countryside, 1640s-1680s
  • The adversary as patron : inviting the Barberini into village politics, 1660-1685
  • The epistolary ambush of Monte Libretti : how nobles met the challenge of the papacy in the early eighteenth century
  • Paternalism and politics : benevolent adversaries, antagonistic patrons
  • Writing resistance : village attacks on textual monopolies in eighteenth-century Italy.

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