Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII - Rilegato

Nussdorfer, Laurie

9780691031828: Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0691031827 ISBN 13: 9780691031828

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992

In this colorful depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that the lay persons managed to sustain a civic government under the increased papal absolutism of Urban VIII (1623-1644), who oversaw both sacred and secular life. Focusing on the S.P.Q.R. (the Senate and Roman People), which was administered from the Capitoline Hill, she shows that it provided political representation for lay members of the urban elite, carried out the work of local government, and served as a symbol of the Roman voice in public life. Through a detailed study of how civic authorities derived their sense of legitimacy and how lay subjects maneuvered in informal and disguised ways to block or criticize the papal regime, the author advances a new way of conceiving politics under an absolute ruler.
As Nussdorfer analyzes the complex interactions between the lay administration and Urban VIII and his family, the papal administration, and Romans of the upper and lower classes, she also provides fresh insights into the actual practice of early modern government. She takes the plague threat of the early 1630s, the War of Castro (1641-1644), and the interregnum following the pope's death as important test cases of the state's power in times of crisis.

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Recensione:

"Nussdorfer's exemplary social history of political culture in the long reign of Urban VIII (1623-44) is committed to delineating the structures of society and power, explicating the language of cooperation and coercion, examining the tensions between ruler and ruled, and understanding the logic behind the vying political pretensions of overlapping jurisdictions."--Sixteenth Century Journal

Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
	Units of Money and Weight
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
Pt. I	The Roman Setting
Ch. 1	A Holy City	21
Ch. 2	The Economic Conjuncture	27
Ch. 3	The Nodes of Power	33
Ch. 4	A Web of Jurisdictions	45
Pt. II	The Roman People
Ch. 5	A Civic Space	60
Ch. 6	A Civic Nobility	95
Pt. III	The Politics of Jurisdiction
Ch. 7	Marketplace	118
Ch. 8	Guilds	128
Ch. 9	Vassals	136
Ch. 10	Plague	145
Pt. IV	The Politics of Patronage
Ch. 11	The Network of Relationships	168
Ch. 12	Civic Revenues and the Papacy	186
Pt. V	The Politics of Accommodation and Protest
Ch. 13	The War of Castro	205
Ch. 14	The Vacant See	228
	Conclusion	254
	Bibliography	259
	Index	277