A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692

✍ Scribed by Pamela M Jones; Barbara Wisch; Simon Ditchfield

Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 653
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, is a unique multidisciplinary study offering innovative analyses of a wide range of topics. The 30 chapters critique past and recent scholarship and identify new avenues for research.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Figures
Contributors
Introduction
A Civic Identity
The Roman Curia
Diplomatic Culture in Early Modern Rome
Liturgical, Ritual, and Diplomatic Spaces at St. Peter’s and the Vatican Palace: The Innovations of Paul IV, Urban VIII, and Alexander VII
Rome and the Vacant See
Justice and Crime
Romanus and Catholicus: Counter-Reformation Rome as Caput Mundi
Celebrating New Saints in Rome and across the Globe
The Plural City: Urban Spaces and Foreign Communities
Rome’s Economic Life, 1492–1692
“Charitable” Assistance between Lay Foundations and Pontifical Initiatives
Building Brotherhood: Confraternal Piety, Patronage, and Place
Ghettoization: The Papal Enclosure and Its Jews
Roma Theatrum Mundi: Festivals and Processions in the Ritual City
Roma Sonora: An Atlas of Roman Sounds and Musics
Mapping Rome’s Rebirth
Papal Urban Planning and Renewal: Real and Ideal, c.1471–1667
Renovatio Aquae: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Tiber River in Early Modern Rome
Palace Architecture and Decoration in Early Modern Rome
The Cultural Landscape of the Villa in Early Modern Rome
Elite Patronage and Collecting
Middle-Class Patronage, Collecting, and the Art Market
Roman Church Architecture: The Early Modern Facade
Scale, Space, and Spectacle: Church Decoration in Rome, 1500–1700
The Three Rs: Education in Early Modern Rome
Institutions and Dynamics of Learned Exchange
Scientific and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Rome
Roman Antiquities and Christian Archaeology
Printers and Publishers in Early Modern Rome
Sites and Sightseers: Rome through Foreign Eyes
List of Popes, 1492–1692
Bibliography
Index

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