Production of Locality in the Early Modern and Modern Age: Places

ISBN-13: 9781032084916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Angelo Torre

Opis

Places is a microhistory study of village settlements in early modern Northwest Italy that aims to expand the notion of place to include the process of　producing a locality;　that is, the production of native local subjects through practices, rituals and other forms of collective action.

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I Matrices

1. Community Building: Brotherhoods, Bodies and Municipalities

2. The Eucharist and the Generation of Space

3. Separate Lands

Part II From Law to Culture

4. Transit

5. Possession and Fiscality

6. Vindication and Oblivion

Part III After the Flood

7. Tourism and Civic Uses

8. Production of Locality Today

Conclusions

O autorze

Angelo Torre is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy. He studied early modern micropolitics through religious and jurisdictional sources. He wrote Il consumo di devozioni (1995) and edited Per vie di terra (2007) and is currently the editor of the journal Quaderni storici.