Power and religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini cultural policies
This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). Precisely their interaction created what we now call ?Baroque Culture?
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Leiden
Brill
2006
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Brill's studies in intellectual history (Volume 135)
Year: 2006 |
| Series/Journal: | Brill's studies in intellectual history
Volume 135 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Urban, VIII., Pope 1568-1644
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| Further subjects: | B
counter-Reformation
B Cultuurgeschiedenis B Papacy B Papacy History (1566-1799) B cultural policy B Catholic Church B Civilization Christian influences B Pausdom B Culture B Cultuurbeleid B Baroque |
| Online Access: |
Cover (Publisher) OCLC metadata license agreement Volltext (View this content on Open Research Library) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Power and Religion in Baroque Rome, Barberini Cultural Policies. - Leiden : Brill |
| Summary: | This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). Precisely their interaction created what we now call ?Baroque Culture? Intro. -- When the bees flew. -- Prologue. Giacinto Gigli, chronicler, or: power in the streets of Rome. -- Chap. 1. The Barberini build a chapel, or: rising to power in post-Tridentine Rome. -- Chap. 2. Maffeo Barberini-Urban VIII, the poet-Pope, or: the power of poetic propaganda. -- Chap. 3. The 'days and works' of Francesco, Cardinal Barberini, or: how to be a powerful cardinal-padrone? -- Chap. 4. Prince Eckembergh comes to dinner, or: power through culinary ceremony. -- Chap. 5. The bare feet of St. Augustine, or: the power of religions images. -- Chapt. 6. Lucas Holste (1596-1661), scholar and librarian, or: the power of books and libraries. -- Chap. 7. Ibrahim al-Hakilani (1605-1664), or: the power of scholarship and publishing. -- Chap. 8. 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. "i'Età fortunata del Mele" or 'Honey's happy age': the Barberini pontificate as a generation, a crossroads -- problems of perspective |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 437 pages), illustrations, charts, figures, tables |
| ISBN: | 978-90-474-1795-8 |
