Download or read book Court and Politics in Papal Rome 1492 1700 written by Gianvittorio Signorotto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2002 book attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the early modern papacy by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court. The period covered extends from the Renaissance to the aftermath of the peace of Westphalia in 1648 - after which the papacy was reduced to a mainly spiritual role. Based on research in Italian and other European archives, the book concentrates on the factions at the Roman court and in the college of cardinals. The sacred college came under great international pressure during the election of a new pope, and consequently such figures as foreign ambassadors and foreign cardinals are examined, as well as political liaisons and social contacts at court. Finally, the book includes an analysis of the ambiguous nature of Roman ceremonial, which was both religious and secular: a reflection of the power struggle both in Rome and in Europe.

Download or read book War Culture and Society in Renaissance Venice written by John Rigby Hale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the majority of these essays are about wars fought against Venice's enemies or on the building and defence of Venetian and other fortifications, there are also essays on other aspects of Venetian life and art: on Giorgione's earliest work; on the career of a Venetian pope; on the building of the Ca' d'Oro; and on the Diarii of Marino Sanuto.

Download or read book Italy 1530 1630 written by Eric Cochrane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers one of the more obscure periods of Italian history. What we know of it is presented almost always pejoratively: an unrelieved tale of political absolution, rural refeudalisation, economic crisis, religious repression and cultural decline. But this picture is both incomplete and inaccurate, and in this important new survey Eric Cochrane has at last given the period its due.

Download or read book The House of Farnese written by Giovanna Solari and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Renaissance of Conflicts written by Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and published by Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore conflict and continuity across the spectrum of political, legal, and spiritual traditions from late medieval Umbria and Tuscany to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, Rome, and Castile. They point to a shared tradition of dispute and resolution in both ecclesiastical/spiritual and state/secular matters, whether of private conscience or public policy. Continuity of ideals, problems, and modes of resolution suggest that breaks in legal, political, or religious ideals and behavior were not as frequent or sharp as historians have argued. These continuities emerge from common methodological approaches grounded in close, careful reading of key texts and their polyvalent terms. Whether those were the terms of civil or canon law, spirituality, or astrology, each author has had to grapple with multiple possibilities, contexts, customs, and practices that reveal the shifts and continuities in their possible meanings. -- Amazon.com.

Download or read book Venice Transfigured written by John Eglin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice Transfigured examines changing representations of Venice and the Venetian Republic in Britain from the s17th century until the collapse of the Serene Republic in 1797, a period in which Venice was an ideological reference point and a potent cultural symbol. In the British political imagination, Venice became an important cultural site where politics and culture converged. This approach incorporates visual culture, festivity and ritual, history and historical myth, resulting in a multifaceted work that illuminates the relationship between political ideology and cultural production.

Download or read book The Crisis of the Renaissance 1520 1600 written by André Chastel and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Italy in the Age of Reason 1685 1789 written by Dino Carpanetto and published by London : Longman. This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gonzaga lords of Mantua written by Selwyn Brinton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond Florence written by Paula Findlen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence—as a city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond the “Florentine model” to explore the diversity of Italian urban and provincial life—the “many Italies” that stretched from the Apennines to the Mediterranean. This volume brings together a group of sixteen urban, social, religious, and economic historians of late medieval and early modern Italy whose work reflects this shift, and illustrates some of the significant new research directions of the field. At the volume’s core are questions important to all historians of late medieval and early modern Europe: What does the new work on Italy beyond Florence have to say about the traditional definition of the Renaissance, a definition that made Florence its paradigmatic expression? What new questions about the period in general have emerged as a result of decentering the Renaissance? How has the effort to view Florence in a wider set of Italian and Mediterranean political and economic networks shed new light on the history of city states? And how has this work led to a reexamination of the continuities connecting the late medieval world to the early modern period? In exploring the contours of Italy from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the volume creates a landscape against which to evaluate the current state of Florentine studies, the resurgence of Venetian studies, the renewed interest in Italy under Spanish rule, and the development of many other regional and local histories that are increasingly used by scholars to facilitate a broader understanding of Italy as a whole.

Download or read book Estates and Revolutions written by Helmut Georg Koenigsberger and published by Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Malaria in Europe written by Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaria / Europa / Geschichte.

Download or read book The Late Italian Renaissance 1525 1630 written by Eric W. Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Good Government in Spanish Naples written by Antonio Calabria and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Government in Spanish Naples provides a narrative historical overview which links six essays from the latest research of prominent scholars in the rich, contemporary school of Neapolitan historiography. The essays examine the political and administrative structure of the Kingdom of Naples, problems of agricultural production and demographic rationale in the countryside, and social welfare and fiscal manipulation in the capital that lead to the 1647 Masaniello revolt. The riches of Neapolitan culture and the crisis and catastrophe of its politics initiates us into the reasons for the decline of the Italian South and Italy as a whole after the Renaissance. Naples emerges not as a decadent, «refeudalized» state, but as a test case for understanding the limits of the early modern state in managing conflict and moderating crises.

Download or read book Klientelsysteme im Europa der Fr hen Neuzeit written by Antoni Mączak and published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg. This book was released on 1988 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die "Schriften des Historischen Kollegs" werden herausgegeben vom jeweiligen Vorsitzenden des Kuratoriums des Historischen Kollegs: bis 2011 von Herrn Professor Dr. Lothar Gall, von 2012 bis Oktober 2017 durch Herrn Professor Dr. Andreas Wirsching, ab Oktober 2017 durch Herrn Professor Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel in Verbindung mit Georg Brun, Thomas O. H llmann, Hartmut Leppin, Susanne Lepsius, Bernhard L ffler, Frank Rexroth, Willibald Steinmetz und Gerrit Walther. Zum Historischen Kolleg: http: //www.historischeskolleg.de/

Download or read book The City State 1500 1700 written by Richard Mackenney and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Southern Europe written by Monica Beckinsale and published by Holmes & Meier Pub. This book was released on 1974 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the physical and economic characteristics of southern France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece