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Elites and Ecclesiastical Careers in Early Modern Sicily : Bishops, Abbots and Knights
2014
The most recent historiography has confirmed the importance of ecclesiastical careers within the ranks of the Catholic Church (bishops and cardinals) as well as religious orders (abbots and priors) and military orders (primarily the Order of Malta) for early modern family strategies. They were one of the main paths followed by cadet members of the nobility to build, strengthen and even enable the survival of the social prestige and political influence of their families. The role of the clergy was in fact crucial in performing a valuable function of mediation, especially with regard to political power in order to achieve increasingly prestigious awards (titles, offices, prebends). The aim of…
Trade apprenticeships, schooling and social differentiation in the merchant sector in fourteenth century Valencia
2020
El crecimiento económico de Valencia desde finales del siglo XIV implicó el cambio en la formación profesional y cultural de las élites mercantiles locales. La familia continuó siendo el ámbito de enseñanza escrituraria preferente dado que el objetivo último de esa formación era la transmisión hereditaria intergeneracional de la empresa. La formación abarcaba buena parte de la infancia y pubertad hasta que el joven pasaba a trabajar como contable o factor en el extranjero bajo las órdenes paternas. Este modelo de aprendizaje dependía de los vínculos que cohesionaban las redes de sociabilidad mercantil, compartía superficialmente los instrumentos formales de la contratación del aprendizaje a…
Il Palazzo Celestri di Santa Croce
2014
Il volume indaga la complessa storia costruttiva di uno dei principali edifici tardobarocchi siciliani, il palazzo dei Celestri, marchesi di Santa Croce, a Palermo. Quello che viene restituito è un denso e articolato affresco della capitale siciliana, dal Cinquecento all'ultimo quarto del Settecento: committenti illustri, architetti celebri e maestri dimenticati impegnati in una successione di cantieri che avrebbero condotto, attraverso complesse e travagliate vicende, alla realizzazione di una delle più grandi residenze aristocratiche dell'isola. The book explores the complex construction history of one of the main Sicilian late baroque buildings, the palace of the Celestri family, Marquis…
Obraz schyłku epoki w powieści Ladislava Fuksa „Vévodkyně a kuchařka”
2017
Portrait of the end of an epoch in Ladislav Fuks’ novel Vevodkyně a kuchařka The subject of the article entitled ‘‘Portrait of the end of an epoch in Ladislav Fuks’ novel Vevodkyně a kuchařka” is the reflection on the last work of the novelist published in 1983. Apart from old age, which is the conference key matter and is considered mainly on the level of literary character in this case such strategy may be related to arepresentative of an aristocracy prince Leuchtenberg-Aulendorf, the author dedicates majority of attention to metaphorical understanding of this issue. For old age can refer to the decline of the ‘long’ 19th century, and the argumentation for such biological consideration of…
Élites di governo e «mastre» ad Agrigento fra Trecento e Quattrocento
2002
ITALIANO: Sebbene le comunità demaniali siciliane acquisiscano un peso centrale ed inedito nei regni di Martino e di Alfonso V, a parte poche eccezioni mancano ricerche monografiche e comparate delle dinamiche sociali cittadine. Questo articolo prende in esame la città di Agrigento, in particolare la formazione dei raggruppamenti sociali, il loro differente ruolo politico e gli equilibri di potere tra i gruppi di governo, con riferimento alle istituzioni delle liste di eleggibili per l'elezione alle cariche locali. È opinione comune che le istituzioni di tali liste rappresentino l'affermazione della aristocrazia, sugli altri raggruppamenti sociali, nelle dinamiche urbane sin dalla seconda m…
ELITES AND ECCLESIASTICAL CAREERS IN EARLY MODERN SICILY: BISHOPS, ABBOTS AND KNIGHTS
2009
Most recent research on Sicilian aristocracy in early modern age has shown how the elite of the island, while keeping its reference “ideological” models in the titled nobility of feudality, was actually a very composite social group, formed by bureaucrats, lawyers, merchants, former “gabelloti” (major tenants of estates) as well as by professionals. Moreover, joining this heterogeneous aristocratic group was increasingly linked, especially since the end of the sixteenth century, to a large availability of financial resources provided by these “new nobles”. During that period, infact, due to mounting economical troubles, the Spanish monarchy actually made a widespread use of conferring – or,…
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.
Una fonte dalle molteplici valenze e chiavi di lettura: il testamento nel tardo Medioevo siciliano
2019
Attraverso l’esame di testamenti editi e inediti dell’aristocrazia siciliana, il saggio si propone di illustrare le diverse chiavi di lettura offerte da questa tipologia di fonte che permette di ricostruire elementi biografici, rapporti familiari, religiosità personale, aspetti economici, sociali e geografici. Verranno messe in luce le principali caratteristiche e le costanti dei testamenti in modo da fornire gli strumenti per la lettura e lo studio di questo tipo di fonte. Ricchissimo di dati, il testamento, specchio del vissuto e della morte, espressione della finitezza umana, offre speranze di redenzione mediante i legati pro anima e i legati pro malis ablatis incertis, ma, al contempo, …
State, orders, and social distinction
2012
This essay seeks to compare different forms of the social distinction in Italy in the late Middle Ages, looking in particular at the specification of the hierarchical mechanisms and of the languages of aristocratic legitimation. In this perspective the framework of a ‘orders society’, whose issues are in part different from those of the previous centuries, correspond to the formation of the territorial states, as they emerge from the crisis of the communal cities and from the end of the unity of the “Regnum Siciliae”. The aim is to describe and analyse some of these forms in order to underscore both the common characters (beginning from those that can justify a ‘framework’, as the circulati…