Search results for "Early Modern History"
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SALUTE PUBBLICA E GOVERNO DELL’EMERGENZA: LA PESTE DEL 1575 A PALERMO/PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY: PALERMO AND THE PLAGUE OF 1575
2016
Il saggio esamina il contributo della Sicilia all'elaborazione di procedure e strategie di controllo della peste nel contesto del XVI secolo, in particolare in occasione dell’ondata che colpì Palermo nel 1575, quando le autorità municipali assunsero importanti provvedimenti e organizzarono un efficace apparato di salute pubblica per governare l’emergenza, sotto la guida del celebre medico Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia. La ricerca consente di ripensare l’opinione generalmente diffusa di un ritardo del Regno di Sicilia rispetto alle aree la cui organizzazione sanitaria è considerata tra le più avanzate, come quelle dell'Italia centro-settentrionale. The essay focuses on Sicily’s contribution to …
Early modern state formation in the margins? A review of early modern popular politics and limited royal power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …
2017
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western European paradigm of historiography, the usual models being France, England, Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden. Regions that do not follow this paradigm have simply been left out and labeled “backward” or as “lagging behind”. In this literary review, our focus is on two different and rather surprising cases of early modern state formation: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Spanish colonial empire in Latin America. By following the scholarship on these two large conglomerates, we focus on two scholarly concepts: the idea of early modern realms as composite/conglomerate states, and state forma…
Between post-colonial and global studies: mobility, government and coexistence in the territories of the Spanish Monarchy in the modern age
2020
After overcoming a predominantly Eurocentric vision, historiography of the late 20th century ventured further into considering the development of dynamics on a planetary scale, embracing the innovative instances and methodological suggestions of Post-Colonial studies, as well as those of World and Global Studies. Whether one accepts the paradigm of “globalisation” or rejects it, like for example, among others, Frederick Cooper – who considers it an empty conceptual shell, devoid of uniformity – it is a matter of fact that social sciences, and history among them, were influenced by it in their heuristic approach at understanding phenomena. In this perspective, and within a dialectic approach…
La storiografia italiana e la proiezione atlantica della Monarchia Spagnola. Alcune riflessioni
2022
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the attention of Italian historiography to the Spanish monarchy in the modern age has been a constant in political, social and economic studies. However, until the end of the last century, the attention to the ‘Atlantic dimension’ of the Monarchy was an expression of the interest of individual scholars within a panorama strongly characterized by research on the Mediterranean and European context. The passage from the 20th to the 21st century, instead, has witnessed the affirmation of new historiographical paths that adopted as an indispensable assumption the awareness of the impossibility of studying the Spanish monarchy if not in its imperial dimens…
Remembering a past princess : Catherine Jagiellon and the construction of national narratives in Sweden and Finland
2019
This chapter tackles the role a Jagiellonian princess, Catherine Jagiellon, has been given in Swedish and Finnish history culture. It illustrates how her figure has entered the historical-cultural memory of both countries, forging and re-forging their national self-image from the end of the sixteenth century through the Cold War, and into contemporary school history teaching. The chapter highlights the differences as well as the similarities of collective memory and history culture associated with Catherine Jagiellon in two Nordic countries with a shared history. It focuses on largely on physical sites of memory such as archives, museums, cathedrals, chapels, castles, commemorative monument…
L’Accademia degli Ortolani (1543-1545). Eresia, stampa e cultura a Piacenza nel medio Cinquecento
2011
Unica Accademia piacentina del Rinascimento, il cenacolo ortolano è una vera e propria lente attraverso cui è possibile leggere fenomeni di larga scala e di più ampio interesse: le ragioni del proliferare delle accademie nella penisola italiana nel medio Cinquecento, la circolazione libraria nell’Italia centro settentrionale, il ruolo dell’intellettuale in quell’epoca, e infine il testo a stampa come veicolo di idee non ortodosse. Il mondo culturale non universitario nel XVI secolo italiano si manifesta come ruolo complesso: l’accademia, di fatto, è una struttura elastica che si piega alle esigenze della società. The only Piacenza Academy of the Renaissance, the ortolan cenacle is a real le…
Tendenze e indirizzi della storia di genere sull’età moderna in Italia. Un itinerario attorno alla Società Italiana delle Storiche
2019
Il saggio esamina le tendenze della storiografia italiana in ordine alle tematiche di genere, concentrandosi sull'età moderna. A tal fine, si assumono le iniziative scientifiche della Società italiana delle storiche, le ricerche e le pubblicazioni promosse nel corso dei suoi trent'anni di attività come terreno di indagine privilegiato per la rilevanza che l'organizzazione ha avuto e ha nel campo degli studi di storia delle donne e di genere.
Exceptional women: Female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period
2018
The chapter examines the juridical construction of working woman in Italian cities during the medieval to modern period. In fact, the world of work and production had been generally thought by medieval and early modern jurists to be a sphere best left to self-regulation by the interested parties, an autonomous field, if not quite extraneous to the grand systems of Roman and canon law. But many regulatory and legal sources demonstrate the relevance of merchant and working women in the economic system. This sources concern three items, regarding female work and family roles: female membership and activities in the Italian guilds; women’s property and capability to act; the relationship betwee…
El Santo Oficio de la Inquisición en Barcelona y soldados protestantes en el ejército de Cataluña
2008
The case summaries sent to the central council of the Inquisition in Madrid by the tribunal in Barcelona show that a number of Protestant soldiers were in Spanish service in the second half of the seventeenth century. These soldiers were not persecuted by the Holy Office, but denounced themselves voluntarily in order to be allowed to convert to Catholicism. The majority of them were from German-speaking areas, and many came from within the Holy Roman Empire. The letters exchanged between Madrid and Barcelona show that this reflected a deliberate policy by the Inquisition of not trying soldiers in Spanish service, nor prisoners of war or deserters from the French army during this period.
Swedish Councillors of the Realm, 1523-1680
2017
The database covers the 257 acting councillors who were in office for the period 1523–1680. The information has been collected from various sources: biographical registers and databases, biography collections, lineage databases, and research literature. It consists of data on births, deaths and marriages; dates of appointments; the age when appointed; spouses and their parents; information on family relations inside the Council; and the number of acting councillors per year. The database also shows how many council meetings person has attended between the years 1621 and 1654.