Early modern Italy, 1550-1796
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Early modern Italy, 1550-1796
（The short Oxford history of Italy）
Oxford University Press, 2002
- : hbk
- : pbk.
Available at 11 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-280) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780198700418
Description
This volume provides an account of early modern Italy, covering such themes as politics, Italy's experience of the absolutist state, the counter-Reformation, society and economy in both town and country, family and gender, the arts and intellectual life, popular culture, and Italy's distinctive role in Europe. Broad chronological and geographical coverage provides integrated treatment of the entire period and peninsula. The text 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, and a team of historians provide up-to-date and revisionist interpretations that place Italy in a wider European context.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders on the Grand Tour
- 1. POLITICS AND THE STATE SYSTEM AFTER THE HABSBURG-VALOIS WARS
- 2. Religion, Renewal, and Reform of the Old Church
- 3. ECONOMIC STRUCTURES AND TRANSFORMATIONS
- 4. Family and Gender
- 5. The Social World: Cohesion, Conflict, and the City
- 6. The Political World of the Absolutist State in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 7. RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE POST-TRIDENTINE CHURCH
- 8. Mare Magnum: the Arts in the Early Modern Age
- 9. Science and Society
- 10. The Ethnography of Everyday Life
- 11. THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- 12. Enlightenment and Reform
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Maps
- Volume
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: pbk. ISBN 9780198700425
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders on the Grand Tour
- 1. POLITICS AND THE STATE SYSTEM AFTER THE HABSBURG-VALOIS WARS
- 2. Religion, Renewal, and Reform of the Old Church
- 3. ECONOMIC STRUCTURES AND TRANSFORMATIONS
- 4. Family and Gender
- 5. The Social World: Cohesion, Conflict, and the City
- 6. The Political World of the Absolutist State in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 7. RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE POST-TRIDENTINE CHURCH
- 8. Mare Magnum: the Arts in the Early Modern Age
- 9. Science and Society
- 10. The Ethnography of Everyday Life
- 11. THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- 12. Enlightenment and Reform
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Maps
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