Power and Religion in Baroque Rome : Barberini Cultural Policies

Language: English

Published by Brill Dez 2005, 2005

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Neuware - In ten chapters, partly case-studies, this monograph analyzes the (new) ways in which cultural manifestations were used to create the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). It was the intensified interaction between culture and power-politics that created what we now call 'the Baroque'. Based on a rich variety of, hitherto largely unexplored, primary sources, the book addresses the basic issues of papal power in the post-Tridentine period. It does not study actual papal politics, but rather the cultural forms that were essential to the representation and legitimatization of the papacy's power, both secular and religious and that (co-)determined the effectiviness of papal policy. Precisely during Urban's long pontificate, the manifold, always imaginative and often unexpected uses of power representation became, in the end, not so much a series of cultural forms as, in a sense, the structure of early modern (Roman) society. …

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Title
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome : Barberini Cultural Policies
Author
Peter Rietbergen
Publisher
Brill Dez 2005
Publication year
2005
Condition
Neu
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Buch
Language
English
ISBN 10
9004148930
ISBN 13
9789004148932
Item weight
807 grams
Dimensions
235x155x25 mm

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