First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.
Over the past thirty years, cultural history has moved from the periphery to the centre of historical studies, profoundly influencing the way we look at and analyse all aspects of the past. In this volume, a distinguished group in international historians has come together to consider the rise of cultural history in general, and to highlight the particular role played in this rise by Peter Burke, the first Professor of Cultural History of the University of Cambridge and one of the most prolific and influential authors in the field.
Reflecting the many and varied interests of Peter Burke, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of topics, geographies and chronologies. Grouped into four sections, 'Historical Anthropology', 'Politics and Communication', 'Images and Representations' and 'Encounters', the collection explores the boundaries and possibilities of cultural history; each essay presenting an opportunity to engage with the wider issues of the methods and problems of cultural history, and with Peter Burke's contributions to each chosen theme. Taken as a whole the collection shows how cultural history has enriched the ways in which we understand the traditional fields of political, economic, literary and military history, and permeates much of what we now understand as social history. It also demonstrates how cultural history is now at the heart of the coming together of traditional disciplines, providing a meeting ground for a variety of interests and methodologies.
Author(s): Melissa Calaresu, Filippo de Vivo, Joan-Pau Rubiés (eds.)
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XVIII+376
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: Peter Burke and the History of Cultural History / Melissa Calaresu, Filippo de Vivo and Joan-Pau Rubiés 1
Part I: Historical Anthropology
1. The Ecotype, Or a Modest Proposal to Reconnect Cultural and Social History / David Hopkin
2. Rituals of the Viaticum: Dynasty and Community in Habsburg Madrid / María José del Río Barredo 55
3. Monks of Honour: The Knights of Malta and Criminal Behaviour in Early Modern Rome / Carmel Cassar 77
4. The Reception of Spain and its Values in Habsburg Naples: A Reassessment / Gabriel Guarino 93
Part II: Politics and Communication
5. Venomous Words and Political Poisons: Language(s) of Exclusion in Early Modern France / Silje Normand 113
6. War and Polemics in Early Modern Europe / Pärtel Piirimäe 133
7. Colbert, Louis XIV and the Golden Notebooks: What a King Needs to Know to Rule / Jacob Soll 151
8. Confessional Cultures and Sacred Space: Towards a History of Political Communication in Early Modern Switzerland / Daniela Hacke 169
Part III: Images
9. Saints as Cultural History / Thomas Worcester 191
10. How to Look like a Counter-Reformation Saint / Helen Hills 207
11. Against Propaganda: The Juxtaposition of Images in Early Modern France. Reflections on the Reign of Louis XII (1498–1515) / Nicole Hochner 231
12. A Gymnosophist at Versailles: The Geography of Knowledge in the Iconography of Louis XIV / Nicholas Dew 249
13. Elegant Dutch? The Reception of Castiglione’s 'Cortegiano' in Seventeenth-Century Netherlands / Herman Roodenburg 265
Part IV: Cultural Encounters
14. Dancing Savages: Stereotypes and Cultural Encounters across the Atlantic in the Age of European Expansion / Alessandro Arcangeli 289
15. Representation in Practice: The Myth of Venice and the British Protectorate in the Ionian Islands (1801–1864) / Maria Fusaro 309
16. Harping on the Past: Translating Antiquarian Learning into Popular Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland / Clare O’Halloran 327
17. Peter Burke and Brazil: A Mutual Discovery / Ángel Gurría-Quintana 345
Afterword: Exploring Cultural History: A Response / Peter Burke 351
Index 359
