Early Modern Italy: A Social History

Zusatztext 'In preparing this book! Christopher Black has handled an impressive range of publications covering some three centuries of various aspects of Italian social history...students! scholars and teachers of the period will be grateful for a helpful introductory discussion of a wide range of topics! which the bibliography will prove very useful for developing.' - Peter Laven! English Historical Review! June 2002'This is a useful guide to recent developments in social history across Italy as a whole.' - History Informationen zum Autor Christopher F. Black is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 1989). Klappentext Early Modern Italy is a fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Covering the whole of the Peninsula from the Venetian Republic, to Florence, through to Naples it shows how the huge economic, cultural and social divides of the period still affect the stability of present day united Italy. This is an essential guide to one of the most vibrant yet tempestuous periods of Italian history. Zusammenfassung A fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Disunited Italy Unity and disunity; The chronology and developments of early modern Italy 2 Geography and demography 3 The changing rural and urban economies 4 The land and rural society 5 The urban environment 6 Urban society 7 The family and household 8 The social elites 9 Social groupings and loyalties 10 Parochial society 11 Social tensions, control and amelioration Social amelioration 12 Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Black, Black Christopher
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780415109352
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10935-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Social History Society (Hardco; Social History Society (Hardco
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Italien, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, 1500 bis heute, Christi Geburt bis 1500 nach Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, CE period up to c 1500, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages