A companion to early modern Rome, 1492-1692 /

A companion to early modern Rome, 1492-1692 / / edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, Simon Ditchfield.

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This volume, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, focuses on Rome from 1492-1692, an era of striking renewal: demographic, architectural, intellectual, and artistic. Rome's most distinctive aspects--including its twin governments (civic and papal), unique role as the...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Jones, Pamela M.,
Wisch, Barbara,
Ditchfield, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Brill's Companions to European History 17.
Physical Description:1 online resource (653 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figures
  • Contributors
  • Introduction / Pamela M. Jones , Barbara Wisch and Simon Ditchfield
  • "Urbi et Orbi": Governing the City and International Politics
  • A Civic Identity / Eleonora Canepari and Laurie Nussdorfer
  • The Roman Curia / Miles Pattenden
  • Diplomatic Culture in Early Modern Rome / Toby Osborne
  • Liturgical, Ritual, and Diplomatic Spaces at St. Peter's and the Vatican Palace: The Innovations of Paul IV, Urban VIII, and Alexander VII / Margaret A. Kuntz
  • Rome and the Vacant See / John M. Hunt
  • Justice and Crime / Elizabeth S. Cohen and Thomas V. Cohen
  • Romanus and Catholicus: Counter-Reformation Rome as Caput Mundi / Simon Ditchfield
  • Celebrating New Saints in Rome and across the Globe / Pamela M. Jones
  • "When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do": Living in the City and Campagna
  • The Plural City: Urban Spaces and Foreign Communities / Irene Fosi
  • Rome's Economic Life, 1492-1692 / Renata Ago
  • "Charitable" Assistance between Lay Foundations and Pontifical Initiatives / Anna Esposito
  • Building Brotherhood: Confraternal Piety, Patronage, and Place / Barbara Wisch
  • Ghettoization: The Papal Enclosure and Its Jews / Katherine Aron-Beller
  • Roma Theatrum Mundi: Festivals and Processions in the Ritual City / Minou Schraven
  • Roma Sonora: An Atlas of Roman Sounds and Musics / Daniele V. Filippi
  • "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day": Mapping, Planning, Building, and Display
  • Mapping Rome's Rebirth / Jessica Maier
  • Papal Urban Planning and Renewal: Real and Ideal, c.1471-1667 / Carla Keyvanian
  • Renovatio Aquae: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Tiber River in Early Modern Rome / Katherine W. Rinne
  • Palace Architecture and Decoration in Early Modern Rome / Stephanie C. Leone
  • The Cultural Landscape of the Villa in Early Modern Rome / Denis Ribouillault
  • Elite Patronage and Collecting / Lisa Beaven
  • Middle-Class Patronage, Collecting, and the Art Market / Patrizia Cavazzini
  • Roman Church Architecture: The Early Modern Facade / John Beldon Scott
  • Scale, Space, and Spectacle: Church Decoration in Rome, 1500-1700 / Arnold A. Witte
  • "Ars longa, vita brevis": Intellectual Life in the Eternal City
  • The Three Rs: Education in Early Modern Rome / Christopher Carlsmith
  • Institutions and Dynamics of Learned Exchange / Kenneth Gouwens
  • Scientific and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Rome / Elisa Andretta and Federica Favino
  • Roman Antiquities and Christian Archaeology / Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli
  • Printers and Publishers in Early Modern Rome / Evelyn Lincoln
  • Sites and Sightseers: Rome through Foreign Eyes / Jeffrey Collins
  • Back Matter
  • List of Popes, 1492-1692
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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