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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Castiglione, Caroline
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.