Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760Oxford University Press, 2005 - 254 páginas 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 interpreting texts. 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. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
The Barberini Buy a Piece of Paradise While They Descend into Hell | 15 |
Newcomers in a Patchwork City of Strangers | 18 |
The Barberini and Their Acquisitions in the Countryside | 22 |
The Charcoal Seller the Hunter and the Priest | 26 |
The Villagers Talk Back to Their New Lords | 32 |
Before It Was a Dirty Word Politics in the Roman Countryside 1640s1680s | 39 |
Uncovering Village Politics | 41 |
Controlling Politics in a Land Where Everyone Is a Debtor | 111 |
Paternalism and Politics Benevolent Adversaries Antagonistic Patrons | 117 |
The Lords Catechism | 119 |
Barberini Efforts to Limit Political Participation | 125 |
Clerics Shirkers and Vanishing Archives | 129 |
Induce Them with Kindness to Comply with the Law | 135 |
Writing Resistance Village Attacks on Textual Monopolies in EighteenthCentury Italy | 145 |
Everyday Controversies of the 1740s | 149 |
Nerola and the Recovered Statuto | 43 |
To Listen to These HillFolk Youd Think Every One of Them Was a Lawyer | 50 |
The Adversary as Patron Inviting the Barberini into Village Politics 16601685 | 63 |
Citizens in the Countryside | 65 |
Petitioning the First Citizen to Be the Noble Patron of Monte Libretti | 68 |
Medical Controversies in Monte Libretti | 72 |
Private Interest Versus Public Good | 78 |
The Epistolary Ambush of Monte Libretti How Nobles Met the Challenge of the Papacy in the Early Eighteenth Century | 89 |
A Bureaucracy of Budgets | 92 |
A Bureaucracy on Horseback | 96 |
Officials in Service to the Barberini | 106 |
Making History in Monte Flavio 1750 | 157 |
Clerical Response to Adversarial Literacy | 167 |
Conclusion | 171 |
The Barberini Family Tree | 179 |
Money Weights and Measures | 181 |
Population of the Stato of Monte Libretti | 183 |
Notes | 185 |
Selected Bibliography | 229 |
245 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760 Caroline Castiglione Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760 Caroline Castiglione Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760 Caroline Castiglione Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
Términos y frases comunes
ABCS adversarial literacy Antonio Antonio Petrucci archive archpriest auditore Bamboccianti Barberini edicts Barberini family Barberini officials Barberini prince baronial berini Buon Governo Camilli Cardinal claimed collection Colonna communal government consiglieri consiglio meeting consiglio record controversy Corese Cornelia Costanza court debt debtors depositario Duchy of Castro early modern eighteenth century especially family's Farfa fasc fiefs Francesco Giulio Cesare hunting and fishing Ibid individuals issued Italy jurisdiction lagers lands letter Lodolini lords Maffeo Barberini magistrates minuti Monte Flavio Monte Libretti Montorio Romano Nerola Nerolani noble family nobleman noted offered Orsini Orsini family palace papacy papal taxes participants pasture paternal PATRONS AND ADVERSARIES payments peasants Petricca Petrucci physician Ponticelli Popes priests priors rent renter request Roman countryside Rome rural Sciarra scudi seigneurial seventeenth century siglio stato of Monte statuto Stazzano suggests Taddeo territory testimony Urban VIII vassals Vatican Library village consiglio village of Monte village of Nerola village politics vote
Pasajes populares
Página 235 - L'erba dei poveri, comunità rurale e soppressione degli usi collettivi nel Lazio (secoli XVIII-XIX), Roma, 1983.