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Early Modern Italy, A Social History, Christopher F. Black

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Early Modern Italy

electronic resource

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1088466620

Christopher F. Black

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A Social History

A fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map 1: Physical Italy; Map 2: The Italian States, 1559; Map 3: Italian cities and towns; Map 4: The Kingdom of Naples; Map 5: The city of Venice; Disunited Italy; The chronology and developments of early modern Italy; Geography and demography; Demography; The supply of food; The changing rural and urban economies; Rural and urban inter-relationships; The land and rural society; Landownership; Inhabitants of the contado and living conditions; The urban environment; Organising the urban sceneThe organisation and production of goods and servicesMeeting places: buying and selling; Urban society; Women and male occupations; The professionals and officials; Servants; Casual work: labourers, pedlars, sbirri, messengers; Prostitutes; The poor and destitute; The family and household; Formation of the family: marriages and dowries; Personal family relationships; The extended family; The social elites; Varieties of social elites; Social groupings and loyalties; Neighbourhood loyalties and urban spatial subdivisions; The Jewish ghettos; Guilds and confraternities; Parochial societyChurch religious social lifeChurch instruction and education; Social tensions, control and amelioration; Riots and revolts; Problems of keeping control; Crime and morality; Religious control and the Inquisitions; Controlling the poor; Social amelioration; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;