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The Monster in the Garden
In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature.
Social Support Systems in Rural Italy
This book examines the development of social support systems in the Modern age in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy. This investigation achieves two main purposes: first, it allows researchers to understand the role occupied concretely by welfare and micro-credit activities in the political and socio-economic panorama of rural Northern Italy; secondly, it verifies to what extent the formation of a more or less structured support system influenced the establishment of local identity and the rooting of individuals. The book brings together perspectives from different fields of research ranging from economic and political history to the study of the history of ecclesiastical ...
Nuova rivista storica
"Bibliografia italiana sulla guerra europea:" anno 1 p. [373]-380.
Trust in the Catholic Reformation
In Trust in the Catholic Reformation, Thérèse Peeters shows how trust and distrust affected reform attempts in the post-Tridentine Church, while offering a multifaceted account of day-to-day religiosity in seventeenth-century Genoa, a city that has largely been overlooked in Anglophone scholarship. The book addresses diverse aspects of early modern Catholicism among lay people and members of the clergy. The author replaces the traditional view of the Catholic Reformation as a top-down process with one that considers individual agency, highlighting how strategies for gaining and maintaining trust – as well as the processes by which trust could be lost or denied – determined the success or failure of various efforts at reforming the Church.
Dal chiostro alla città: le monache cappuccine tra Italia e Spagna (secoli XVI-XIX)
I saggi raccolti nel volume provano a fare luce sulle comunità delle clarisse cappuccine che dettero seguito al progetto che aveva portato Maria Lorenza Longo alla fondazione, a Napoli, nel 1535, del monastero di Santa Maria in Gerusalemme. Vi viene ripercorsa la storia dei loro principali insediamenti tra Italia e Spagna nei primi secoli dell’età moderna, seguendone alcune delle principali trame – rapporti con le élite cittadine, patronato regio nel caso delle comunità di Barcellona e Madrid, vita religiosa, patrimoni culturali materiali e immateriali, arti e devozioni. Sorte per una serie di concatenazioni molecolari tra loro, in cui le regole manoscritte funsero da agenti nella...
