Patrons and adversaries: nobles and villagers in Italian politics, 1640-1760
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Main Author: Castiglione, Caroline (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press ©2005
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index
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
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 of reading and writing that challenged noble hegemony in the village
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 254 pages)
ISBN:0195173864
0195173872
128042818X
1423746082
9780195173864
9780195173871
9781280428180
9781423746089

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