| Description |
x, 281 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- References -- Part I. Introduction: 1. The historical anthropology of early modern Italy -- 2. The sources: outsiders and insiders -- Part II. Modes of Perception: 3. Classifying the people: the census as collective representation -- 4. The bishop's questions and the people's religion -- 5. How to be a Counter-Reformation saint -- 6. Perceiving a counter-culture -- Part III. Modes of Communication: 7. Languages and anti-languages in early modern Italy -- 8. Insult and blasphemy in early modern Italy -- 9. The uses of literacy in early modern Italy -- 10. Conspicuous consumption in seventeenth-century Italy -- 11. The presentation of self in the Renaissance portrait -- 12. Sacred rulers, royal priests: rituals of the early modern popes -- 13. The carnival of Venice -- 14. The virgin of the Carmine and the revolt of Masaniello -- 15. Rituals of healing in early modern Italy -- Part IV. Conclusion: 16. The repudiation of ritual in early modern Europe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Analysis |
Italian culture 1500-1700 |
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Italian culture, 1500-1700 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 261-276 |
| Subject |
Civilization -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068888
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Italy -- Civilization -- 1559-1789.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068889
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| LC no. |
86018830 |
| ISBN |
0521320410 |
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