Power and religion in Baroque Rome : Barberini cultural policies / by Peter Rietbergen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rietbergen, P. J. A. N., author.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 135.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barberini, Francesco, 1597-1679.

Barberini, Francesco.

Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644.

Urban.

Papacy--History--1566-1799.

Papacy.

Rome (Italy)--Civilization--Christian influences--History--17th century.

Rome (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 437 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Brill 2005

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

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 effectiveness 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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: When the bees flew

Prologue: Giacinto Gigli, chronicler, or: power in the streets of Rome

Chapter One: The Barberini build a chapel, or: rising to power in post-Tridentine Rome

Chapter Two: Maffeo Barberini-Urban VIII, the Poet-Pope, or: the power of poetic propaganda

Chapter Three: The ‘Days and Works’ of Francesco, Cardinal Barberini, or: how to be a powerful cardinal-padrone?

Chapter Four: Prince Eckembergh comes to dinner, or: power through culinary ceremony

Chapter Five: The Bare Feet of St Augustine, or: the power of religious images

Chapter Six: Lucas Holste (1596–1661), scholar and librarian, or: the power of books and libraries

Chapter Seven: Ibrahim al-Hakilani (1605–1664), or: the power of scholarship and publishing

Chapter Eight: Urban VIII between White Magic and Black Magic, or: holy and unholy power

Epilogue: The Return of the Muses: Instruments of cultural policy in Barberini Rome, 1623–1644

Conclusion: “L’età fortunata del Mele”, or ‘Honey’s Happy Age’: The Barberini pontificate as a generation, a crossroads—problems of perspective

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-474-1795-X

OCLC:

987451281

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047417958 DOI