This volume provides a fresh and dynamic account of Early Modern Italy, covering such themes as politics, Italy's experience of the absolutist state, the Counter-Reformation, society and economy in both town and country, family and gender, the arts and intellectual life, popular culture, and Italy's distinctive role in Europe.
Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders on the Grand Tour, John A. Marino
1. I The Institutional Framework: Late Renaissance ResolutionsPolitics and the State System after the Habsburg-Valois Wars, Thomas J. Dandelet
2. Religion, Renewal, and Reform of the Old Church, John Jeffries Martin
3. II Material Life: Economic, Social, and Political, and Economic TrajectoriesEconomic Structures and Transformations, John A. Marino
4. Family and Gender, Gianna Pomata
5. The Social World: Cohesion, Conflict, and the City, R. Burr Litchfield
6. The Political World of the Absolutist State in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Geoffrey Symcox
7. III Ideologies and Practices: Competing Languages, Converging VisionsReligion, Spirituality, and the Post-Tridentine Church, Anne Jacobson Schutte
8. Mare Magnum: the Arts in the Early Modern Age, Jon R Snyder
9. Science and Society, Paula Findlen
10. The Ethnography of Everyday Life, David Gentilcore
11. IV The Challenge and Crisis of the Old RegimeThe Public Sphere and the Organization of Knowledge, Brendan Dooley
12. Enlightenment and Reform, Anna Maria Rao
Conclusion, John A. Marino
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
John A. Marino
