Name: patrons and adversaries: nobles and villagers in italian politics, 1640-1760
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Author: Castiglione, Caroline
ISBN: 9780195173864

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patrons and adversaries: nobles and villagers in italian politics, 1640-1760

Type

Physical Book

Author

Caroline Castiglione

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4x15.6x1.6 cm

Weight

0.55 kg.

ISBN

0195173864

ISBN13

9780195173864

Synopsis "patrons and adversaries: nobles and villagers in italian politics, 1640-1760"

The early modern Roman countryside was a site of contestation between great aristocratic families and an expanding papal political regime. Rarely has the role of the inhabitants of this landscape--the villagers--been considered as part of that power struggle.As Caroline Castiglione shows in this compelling revisionist work, one Roman aristocratic family, the Barberini, was not squeezed out of governing by the extension of the papal bureaucracy, but rather became increasingly engaged with it during the long eighteenth century. Through their participation in the rural commune, villagers in an extensive territory belonging to the Barberini became active participants in the governing of the countryside. Villagers cultivated and exploited interference from the aristocratic family and the papal government, but they also kept urban elites at bay, defending their rights through the strategies of adversarial literacy. Such literate practices drew on village mastery of local constitutions, debates in the village assembly, and brilliant use of the legal system of the papacy to thwart the designs of the Barberini. Later villagers created and interpreted sources for themselves, effectively challenging the elite monopoly on making and interpretingtexts.A lost world of increasingly savvy villagers, irate nobles, and exasperated bureaucrats emerges here in an engaging narrative that chronicles how seemingly marginalized villagers challenged the pragmatic control of the Roman countryside, using texts and ideas that urban elites had exported to the countryside for other purposes.

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