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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…
Cardenales y "nobleza eclesiástica" en Italia, entre ficción y biografía (siglos XVI-XVII)
2016
The literature on cardinals examined in this article (writings on conclaves, biographies, funeral orations and relations, as well as descriptions of funeral apparati) demonstrate an ostentatious prevalence of the “purple” on the “blood”, of the ecclesiastical nobility on the honour of the lineage, of the genealogy of the Church on that of the family trees. Such prevalence was of course rhetoric within a system that made the kinship relationships as its strength and had a noble social block behind itself. The exception of some cardinals or popes of humble birth, indeed, confirmed the rule of the patrician or aristocratic descent of the majority of them. In this regard, as Peter Burke (2001) …
la noblesse dans la monarchie espagnole des Habsbourg aux Bourbons. Langages et pratiques de fidélités anciennes et nouvelles
2018
Lo scopo del saggio è di offrire una riflessione sulla nobiltà spagnola, siciliana e napoletana nel complesso quadro della crisi dinastica verificatasi nella monarchia spagnola alla morte di Carlo II. A partire dall'analisi delle dinamiche che hanno iniziato a modificare il ruolo delle Grandes alla corte di Madrid durante la reggenza di Mariana de Austria, l'attenzione si concentra principalmente sui decenni tra la fine del XVII e l'inizio del XVIII secolo. La ricerca evidenzia strategie personali e legali, nuove pratiche e linguaggi di negoziazione tra nobiltà e sovrano, al fine di comprendere le motivazioni che hanno costituito la base per l'adesione della nobiltà mediterranea al partito …
Deute públic i renda censalista al País Valencià en el segle XV. Una proposta d’interpretació
2018
L’emergència de la nova fiscalitat –de la Corona, de les ciutats i del regne– va ser, sens dubte, una de les grans transformacions polítiques i econòmiques del final de l’edat mitjana. Amb l’impost va aparèixer un deute públic consolidat que, en la Corona d’Aragó, es va desenvolupar mitjançant el censal, un instrument financer semblant a les rentes constituées franceses o les perpetual annuities angleses. A partir del cas del País Valencià, pot assajar-se una estimació del volum de rendes generat pel deute públic i de com es distribuïen des del punt de vista geogràfic i social. Així doncs, en aquest article s’estudia en quins nivells de la xarxa urbana es concentraven aquests recursos i qui…
Private archives of noble families from the border Podlasie and Lublin and Lithuania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (The collection of Z…
2016
The primary source of knowledge in the subject careers are documents and files stored in the archives of the once private. Their pieces are among others in the ECR Zygmunt Gloger. Its advantage is a large variety. We find in the genealogical material and economic, excerpts from books municipal and earthly, worldly goods inventories, inventories of movable property, correspondence, and sources resulting from the functioning of the judiciary. Here are excerpts private archives rich in genealogical material and economic. The chronological range of content „Compendium Zygmunt Gloger” includes the era of traditional Polish as well as centuries XIX and XX (l. 1515–1907). Geographically it concern…
Classical and humanist works in the libraries of early modern Finland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries
2009
This article examines the presence of classical, humanist and neo-humanist works in the libraries of the Magnus Ducatus of Finland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. In this period, Sweden went from being a member of a Scandinavian union dominated by Denmark to an imperial power administering large areas of north-central Europe, only to be subsequently demoted to the role of a regional player increasingly tossed about by her neighbours, especially Russia. Despite economic, political, religious and cultural turbulence, international trends seem to have reached the Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae, both through Finns studying at key centres of learning and culture, and through reading b…
La Roja: A Journey Through Spanish Football
2013
Spain has always been identified with a hero whose nobility and achievement proved delusional: Don Quixote. Many philosophers used the image of the Castilian hero created by Miguel de Cervantes to ...
L'arquitectura dins la cultura nobiliària a Xàtiva
2018
El present treball busca analitzar i destacar aquelles arquitectures que l’estament nobiliari de Xàtiva va manar construir amb la finalitat de mostrar el seu poder al poble. Així mateix, és un intent de fer valer els edificis i els elements que se n’han conservat fins als nostres dies. La metodologia seguida consta d’una primera anàlisi del parc edificat per avaluar-ne l’arquitectura i d’una cerca a diferents arxius per conèixer l’evolució, tant de les construccions com de les diferents nissagues que les van habitar. Tot això ens permet concloure que, en el cas xativí, existeix una xifra elevada d’edificis erigits per la classe nobiliària que encara hui es mantenen dempeus, a la vegada que …
L'Abolizione della feudalità e il culto degli onori nella Sicilia del 1812
2015
La Costituzione del 1812 trasformò i feudi in allodi ed eliminò le giurisdizioni feudali. L’obiettivo, già auspicato da Caracciolo e Caramanico, fu raggiunto solamente in un momento particolare della storia siciliana e grazie all’intervento del plenipotenziario inglese Sir Bentinck l’istituto giuridico fu abolito. Tuttavia la rappresentazione della nobiltà come categoria non scomparve e rimase saldamente presente nell’immaginario collettivo. Il titolo nobiliare e l’onore ad esso collegato, costituirono l’elemento sociologico-strutturale sul quale si assestò la politica di difesa cetuale del baronaggio. Alcuni esempi di come si costruisce l’onore di un casato, completano questo primo approcc…
Una nueva personalidad para Juan Melchor Pérez, <em>scultore e tragettatore</em> al servicio del VII Duque de Montalto y Juan José de Aus…
2018
El artículo presenta a Juan Melchor Pérez (doc. 1642-1650) como un escultor y fundidor sucesivamente al servicio del Duque de Montalto y Juan José de Austria, cuestiona la identificación de uno de los bustos de bronce firmados por él que se conserva en el Museo del Prado, se plantea la complejidad de determinar la autoría en las obras realizadas en bronce y el papel de los escultores de corte al servicio de familias nobles.