Main entry:

Rietbergen, P. J. A. N.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Description:

xviii, 437 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

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

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'Età̀̀̀̀̀̀ fortunata del Mele" or 'Honey's happy age': the Barberini pontificate as a generation, a crossroads--problems of perspective.

Summary:

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 variety of 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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ISBN:

9004148930 (hd. bd.)
9789004148932 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Barberini, Francesco, 1597-1679.
Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644.
Urban VIII. Papst 1568-1644
Urban (Papst, VIII.)
Katholische Kirche
Papacy History 1566-1799.
Rome Civilisation Influence chrétienne Histoire 17e siècle.
Papauté Histoire 1566-1799.
Papauté Histoire 1565-1799.
Civilization Christian influences.
Papacy.
Barock
Gegenreformation
Kultur
Kulturpolitik
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Pausdom.
Cultuurbeleid.
Papacy History 16th-17th centuries.
Papacy History.
Rome Civilization Christian influences History 17th century.
Rome (Empire)
Rome Civilization.
Eggenberg, Johann Anton von

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245857
Call No.: BIB 175470
Status: Available