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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.
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.
This is a unique investigation of the political uses of different
forms of communication--oral, manuscript, and printed--in sixteenth
and seventeenth century Venice. De Vivo uses a rich and diverse
range of sources - from council debates to leaks and spies'
reports, from printed pamphlets to graffiti and rumors - to
demonstrate just how closely political communication was
intertwined with the wider social and economic life of the city.
The book also engages with important wider problems, inviting
comparison beyond Venice. For instance, today we take it for
granted that communication and politics influence each other
through spin-doctoring and media power. What, however, was the use
of communication in an age when rulers recognized no political role
for their subjects? And what access to political information did
those excluded from government have?
In answering these questions, de Vivo offers a highly original
reinterpretation of early modern politics that steers a course
between the tendency of the political historian to view events from
the windows of government buildings and the 'history from below' of
social historians. As this account shows, neither perspective is
sufficient in isolation, because even the most secretive oligarchs,
ensconced in the Ducal Palace's most restricted councils, were
constantly preoccupied by their vociferous subjects in the squares
below. Challenging the social and cultural boundaries of more
traditional accounts, the book goes on to show how politics in
early modern Venice extended far beyond the patrician elite to
involve the entire population, from humble clerks and foreign
spies, to notaries, artisans, barbers, and prostitutes.
This is a unique investigation of the political uses of different
forms of communication - oral, manuscript, and printed - in
sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice. De Vivo uses a rich and
diverse range of sources - from council debates to leaks and spies'
reports, from printed pamphlets to graffiti and rumors - to
demonstrate just how closely political communication was
intertwined with the wider social and economic life of the city.
The book also engages with important wider problems, inviting
comparison beyond Venice. For instance, today we take it for
granted that communication and politics influence each other
through spin-doctoring and media power. What, however, was the use
of communication in an age when rulers recognized no political role
for their subjects? And what access to political information did
those excluded from government have?
In answering these questions, de Vivo offers a highly original
reinterpretation of early modern politics that steers a course
between the tendency of the political historian to view events from
the windows of government buildings and the 'history from below' of
social historians. As this account shows, neither perspective is
sufficient in isolation, because even the most secretive oligarchs,
ensconced in the Ducal Palace's most restricted councils, were
constantly preoccupied by their vociferous subjects in the squares
below. Challenging the social and cultural boundaries of more
traditional accounts, the book goes on to show how politics in
early modern Venice extended far beyond the patrician elite to
involve the entire population, from humble clerks and foreign
spies, to notaries, artisans, barbers, and prostitutes.
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