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 seat of global Catholicism, disproportionately male population, and status as artistic capital of Europe--are examined from numerous perspectives. This book of 30 chapters, intended for scholars and students across the academy, fills a noteworthy gap in the literature. It is the only multidisciplinary study of 16th- and 17th-century Rome that synthesizes and critiques past and recent scholarship while offering innovative analyses of a wide range of topics and identifying new avenues for research.
Contributors are: Renata Ago, Elisa Andretta, Katherine Aron-Beller, Lisa Beaven, Eleonora Canepari, Christopher Carlsmith, Patrizia Cavazzini, Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen, Jeffrey Collins, Simon Ditchfield, Anna Esposito, Federica Favino, Daniele V. Filippi, Irene Fosi, Kenneth Gouwens, Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli, John M. Hunt, Pamela M. Jones, Carla Keyvanian, Margaret A. Kuntz, Stephanie C. Leone, Evelyn Lincoln, Jessica Maier, Laurie Nussdorfer, Toby Osborne, Miles Pattenden, Denis Ribouillault, Katherine W. Rinne, Minou Schraven, John Beldon Scott, Barbara Wisch, Arnold A. Witte.
Author(s): Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, Simon Ditchfield
Series: Brill's Companions to European History
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 656
City: Leiden
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
