Power and Religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini Cultural Policies - Couverture rigide

Rietbergen, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004148930 ISBN 13 : 9789004148932

Editeur : Brill, 2005

Synopsis

In ten chapters, partly case-studies, this monograph analyzes the (new) ways in which cultural manifestations were used to create the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). It was the intensified interaction between culture and power-politics that created what we now call 'the Baroque'. Based on a rich variety of, hitherto largely unexplored, primary sources, the book addresses the basic issues of papal power in the post-Tridentine period. It does not study actual papal politics, but rather the cultural forms that were essential to the representation and legitimatization of the papacy's power, both secular and religious and that (co-)determined the effectiviness of papal policy. Precisely during Urban's long pontificate, the manifold, always imaginative and often unexpected uses of power representation became, in the end, not so much a series of cultural forms as, in a sense, the structure of early modern (Roman) society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Rietbergen, Ph.D. (Nijmegen 1983), is Professor of Post-medieval Cultural History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He published extensively on early modern (cultural) history, as well as on the history of the relations between Asia and the West. In 2005, the revised edition of his succesful Europe: A Cultural History was published by Routledge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004148930
• ISBN 13: 9789004148932
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 456
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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