Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760

ISBN-13: 9780195173864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str.

Caroline Castiglione

Opis

Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its vassals clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted it through the strategies of adversarial literacy, and political ways of reading and writing, that challenged the noble hegemony.