| Reviews |
| - '... this is a first rate volume ... Throughout, the pieces are interesting and the volume is important, not simply for specialists on Italy but also for those interested in early modern European history ... The essays are state-of-the-art, and the book will be useful to scholars and students alike.' - Journal of European Studies
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| Description | | - Broad chronological and geographical coverage provide integrated treatment of the entire period and peninsula
- Provides both material and cultural historical analysis allowing students to trace religious, cultural and scientific developments against their social, political and economic parameters
- Thematic treatment is tied into a strong narrative framework, tracing changes and continuity along a chronological structure
- Leading team of historians provide up-to-date and revisionist interpretations that place Italy in a wider European context
| | Early Modern Italian history has traditionally been presented in the context of the absence of a unified Italian state, foreign domination and of relative decline to former wealth and power. This new volume calls on a wealth of recent research to portray the complex history of the early modern Italian states on their own terms. A leading team of historians traces Italian material and cultural
bonds of identity and solidarity beyond their common political narrative - from the Reformation through the hopes and frustrations of reform, renewal and restructuring of social and economic power to the eventual collapse of the Old Regime. |
Readership: Undergraduates on History or Italian degrees taking options in Early Modern Italian history, Early Modern Europe, or Italian History survey courses. Also the general reader interested in Italian history of this period.
| Contents |
Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders on the Grand Tour
,
John A. Marino
1.
I The Institutional Framework: Late Renaissance Resolutions
Politics and the State System after the Habsburg-Valois Wars
,
Thomas J. Dandelet
2.
Religion, Renewal, and Reform of the Old Church
,
John Jeffries Martin
3.
II Material Life: Economic, Social, and Political, and Economic Trajectories
Economic Structures and Transformations
,
John A. Marino
4.
Family and Gender
,
Gianna Pomata
5.
The Social World: Cohesion, Conflict, and the City
,
R. Burr Litchfield
6.
The Political World of the Absolutist State in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
,
Geoffrey Symcox
7.
III Ideologies and Practices: Competing Languages, Converging Visions
Religion, Spirituality, and the Post-Tridentine Church
,
Anne Jacobson Schutte
8.
Mare Magnum: the Arts in the Early Modern Age
,
Jon R Snyder
9.
Science and Society
,
Paula Findlen
10.
The Ethnography of Everyday Life
,
David Gentilcore
11.
IV The Challenge and Crisis of the Old Regime
The Public Sphere and the Organization of Knowledge
,
Brendan Dooley
12.
Enlightenment and Reform
,
Anna Maria Rao
Conclusion
,
John A. Marino
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by John A. Marino, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
| Contributors:John A Marino, University of California, San Diego
John Martin, Trinity University, San Antonio
Thomas Dandelet, Princeton University
Gianna Pomata, Bologna University
R Burr Litchfield, Brown University
Geoffrey Symcox, University of California, Los Angeles
Anne Jacobson Schutte, Virginia University
Jon R Snyder, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paula Findlen, Stanford
University
Brendan Dooley, Harvard University
David Gentilicore, Leicester University
Anna Maria Rao, Naples University |
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