Filippo de Vivo

Communication in the government -- Communication in the political arena -- Communication in the city -- Communicative transactions -- The system challenged : the interdict of 1606-7 -- Propaganda? : print in context

Rethinking Early Modern Politics

Information and Communication in Venice

Un canonico e un abate imprigionati nel 1606 per reati comuni; l’interdetto lanciato da papa Paolo v contro la repubblica di Venezia e la proibizione di messe e sacramenti in tutto lo stato; una “guerra di scritture” firmate da autori illustri (come Paolo Sarpi) o oscuri, spesso nascosti da pseudonimi fantasiosi. Questa vicenda famosa viene qui raccontata da punti di vista diversi e inattesi: il mercato di Rialto e l’anticamera del Palazzo Ducale, le calli e le botteghe – in una Venezia indimenticabile, popolata da mercanti e da spie, da nobili e da artigiani, da ambasciatori, barbieri e prostitute. Attraverso l’analisi di testimonianze d’ogni genere (libelli a stampa e manoscritti, cartelli in dialetto, pettegolezzi, denunce) emerge una storia politica in cui alto e basso, segretezza e propaganda si alternano intrecciandosi. La politica dell’informazione e l’informazione come fatto politico, ci spiega Filippo de Vivo, sono cominciate molto tempo fa. Questo libro ne ricostruisce un capitolo in maniera esemplare.

Patrizi, informatori, barbieri

Joan Pau Rubiés

Melissa Calaresu

Melissa Calaresu is the McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK. Filippo de Vivo is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Joan-Pau Rubies is Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Essays in Honour of Peter Burke

Exploring Cultural History

Joan-Pau Rubies

Over the past 30 years, cultural history has moved from the periphery to the centre of historical studies, profoundly influencing the way we look at and analyze all aspects of the past. In this volume, a distinguished group of international historians has come together to consider the rise of cultural history in general, and to highlight the particular role played in this rise by Peter Burke, the first professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and one of the most prolific and influential authors in the field. Reflecting the many and varied interests of Peter Burke, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of topics, geographies and chronologies. Grouped into four sections, 'Historical Anthropology', 'Politics and Communication', 'Images' and 'Cultural Encounters', the collection explores the boundaries and possibilities of cultural history; each essay presenting an opportunity to engage with the wider issues of the methods and problems of cultural history, and with Peter Burke's contributions to each chosen theme. Taken as a whole the collection shows how cultural history has enriched the ways in which we understand the traditional fields of political, economic, literary and military history, and permeates much of what we now understand as social history. It also demonstrates how cultural history is now at the heart of the coming together of traditional disciplines, providing a meeting ground for a variety of interests and methodologies. Offering a wide international perspective, this volume complements another Ashgate publication, Popular Culture in Early Modern England, which focuses on Peter Burke's influence on the study of popular culture in English history.

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