Early Modern Italy: A Social History

by Christopher Black

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134611270
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/04/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	973 KB

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Black (modern history, U. of Glasgow) covers the whole of the Italian peninsula in this survey of Italian society from the 15th to 18th centuries. Because Italy was not a unified country during this period, the book covers a variety of topics from the perspectives of different states, depicting both the patterns and contrasts among states. Specific themes include the effects of geography on population and social developments, the relationship between urban and rural Italy, agriculture, artisans, merchant classes, the family and the household, and the church and religious life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

'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

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