{"product_id":"the-historical-anthropology-of-early-modern-italy-essays-on-perception-and-communication-paperback-9780521023672","title":"The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy; Essays on Perception and Communication (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521023672","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Perception and Communication\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume presents an original view of the culture of early modern Italy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Burke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521023672, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 November 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Burke's style is deft and sure at the same time as it is erudite. He brings together deep knowledge, primary documentation, systematic analysis, dazzling insight. In the anthropological style, he often starts with a text. Like a historian, he puts that text into a context and examines how the structure, process or activity under scrutiny changes over time. The volume is well written, tells stories of human as well as scholarly interest, and analyses texts and events in lively and suggestive ways, often with a surprise ending or twist to the explanation.' Louise Tilly, New School for Social Research\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBased on archival material from the cities of Genoa, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as on published sources, such as travel journals, and artistic representations, this volume presents an original view of the culture of early modern Italy. The book addresses particular themes - specifically those of perception and communication - as well as serving to exemplify modes of analysis in the currently developing field of historical anthropology. In the first part of the book, Peter Burke examines the stereotyped ways in which contemporaries perceived social groups such as saints, beggars, and working women, and shows how these stereotypes were used, consciously and unconsciously, both by the authorities and by ordinary people.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Introduction: 1. The historical anthropology of early modern Italy\u003cbr\u003e 2. The sources: outsiders and insiders\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Modes of Perception: 3. Classifying the people: the census as collective representation\u003cbr\u003e 4. The bishop's questions and the people's religion\u003cbr\u003e 5. How to be a Counter-Reformation saint\u003cbr\u003e 6. Perceiving a counter-culture\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Modes of Communication: 7. Languages and anti-languages in early modern Italy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Insult and blasphemy in early modern Italy\u003cbr\u003e 9. The uses of literacy in early modern Italy\u003cbr\u003e 10. Conspicuous consumption in seventeenth-century Italy\u003cbr\u003e 11. The presentation of self in the Renaissance portrait\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sacred rulers, royal priests: rituals of the early modern popes\u003cbr\u003e 13. The carnival of Venice\u003cbr\u003e 14. The virgin of the Carmine and the revolt of Masaniello\u003cbr\u003e 15. Rituals of healing in early modern Italy\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Conclusion: 16. The repudiation of ritual in early modern Europe\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909183037720,"sku":"9780521023672","price":38.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521023672i.jpg?v=1694963634","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-historical-anthropology-of-early-modern-italy-essays-on-perception-and-communication-paperback-9780521023672","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}