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Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII / Laurie Nussdorfer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5411Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691197630
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 352.045/632 22
LOC classification:
  • JS5877.A15 N87 1992eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Units of Money and Weight -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: The Roman Setting -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: A Holy City -- CHAPTER TWO: The Economic Conjuncture -- CHAPTER THREE: The Nodes of Power -- CHAPTER FOUR: A Web of Jurisdictions -- PART II: The Roman People -- Introduction -- CHAPTER FIVE: A Civic Space -- CHAPTER SIX: A Civic Nobility -- PART III: The Politics of jurisdiction -- Introduction -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Marketplace -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Guilds -- CHAPTER NINE: Vassals -- CHAPTER TEN: Plague -- PART IV: The Politics of Patronage -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Network of Relationships -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Civic Revenues and the Papacy -- PART V: The Politics of Accommodation and Protest -- Introduction -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The War of Castro -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Vacant See -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 the Roman People), which was ministered 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.Laurie Nussdorfer is Assistant Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Units of Money and Weight -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: The Roman Setting -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: A Holy City -- CHAPTER TWO: The Economic Conjuncture -- CHAPTER THREE: The Nodes of Power -- CHAPTER FOUR: A Web of Jurisdictions -- PART II: The Roman People -- Introduction -- CHAPTER FIVE: A Civic Space -- CHAPTER SIX: A Civic Nobility -- PART III: The Politics of jurisdiction -- Introduction -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Marketplace -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Guilds -- CHAPTER NINE: Vassals -- CHAPTER TEN: Plague -- PART IV: The Politics of Patronage -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Network of Relationships -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Civic Revenues and the Papacy -- PART V: The Politics of Accommodation and Protest -- Introduction -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The War of Castro -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Vacant See -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 the Roman People), which was ministered 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.Laurie Nussdorfer is Assistant Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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