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In the Early Modern period - as both reformed and Catholic churches
strove to articulate orthodox belief and conduct through texts,
sermons, rituals, and images - communities grappled frequently with
the connection between sacred space and behavior. The Sacralization
of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World explores individual
and community involvement in the approbation, reconfiguration and
regulation of sacred spaces and the behavior (both animal and
human) within them. The individual's understanding of sacred space,
and consequently the behavior appropriate within it, depended on
local need, group dynamics, and the dissemination of normative
expectations. While these expectations were defined in a growing
body of confessionalizing literature, locally and internationally
traditional clerical authorities found their decisions contested,
circumvented, or elaborated in order to make room for other
stakeholders' activities and needs. To clearly reveal the efforts
of early modern groups to negotiate authority and the
transformation of behavior with sacred space, this collection
presents examples that allow the deconstruction of these tensions
and the exploration of the resulting campaigns within sacred space.
Based on new archival research the eleven chapters in this
collection examine diverse aspects of the campaigns to transform
Christian behavior within a variety of types of sacred space and
through a spectrum of media. These essays give voice to the
arguments, exhortations, and accusations that surrounded the
activities taking place in early modern sacred space and reveal
much about how people made sense of these transformations.
The Borgia Family: Rumor and Representation explores the historical
and cultural structures that underpin the early modern Borgia
family, their notoriety, and persistence and reinvention in the
popular imagination. The book balances studies focusing on early
modern observations of the Borgias and studies deconstructing later
incarnations on the stage, on the page, on the street, and on the
screen. It reveals how contemporary observers, later authors and
artists, and generations of historians reinforced and perpetuated
both rumor and reputation, ultimately contributing to the Borgia
Black Legend and its representations. Focused on the deeds and
posthumous reputations of Pope Alexander VI and his children,
Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, the volume charts the choices made by
the family and contextualizes them amid contemporary expectations
and reactions. Extending beyond their deaths, it also investigates
how the Borgias became emblems of anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish
criticism in the later early modern period and their residing
reputation as the best and worst of the Renaissance. Exploring a
spectrum of traditional and modern media, The Borgia Family
contextualizes both Borgia deeds and their modern representations
to analyze the family's continuing history and meaning in the
twenty-first century. It will be of great interest to researchers
and students working on interdisciplinary aspects of the
Renaissance and early modern Italy.
The Borgia Family: Rumor and Representation explores the historical
and cultural structures that underpin the early modern Borgia
family, their notoriety, and persistence and reinvention in the
popular imagination. The book balances studies focusing on early
modern observations of the Borgias and studies deconstructing later
incarnations on the stage, on the page, on the street, and on the
screen. It reveals how contemporary observers, later authors and
artists, and generations of historians reinforced and perpetuated
both rumor and reputation, ultimately contributing to the Borgia
Black Legend and its representations. Focused on the deeds and
posthumous reputations of Pope Alexander VI and his children,
Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, the volume charts the choices made by
the family and contextualizes them amid contemporary expectations
and reactions. Extending beyond their deaths, it also investigates
how the Borgias became emblems of anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish
criticism in the later early modern period and their residing
reputation as the best and worst of the Renaissance. Exploring a
spectrum of traditional and modern media, The Borgia Family
contextualizes both Borgia deeds and their modern representations
to analyze the family's continuing history and meaning in the
twenty-first century. It will be of great interest to researchers
and students working on interdisciplinary aspects of the
Renaissance and early modern Italy.
This cultural and institutional history explores the careers of men
who served in Rome's Office of Ceremonies during the papal court's
growth period (c.1466-1528), in order to understand how the
smallest papal college stands as a model of early modern curial
advancement. The experiences and textual contributions of three
ceremonialists, Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de'
Grassi, show diverse strategies and origins, but similar concerns
and achievements. In a period of heightened competition and
increasing pressure for regularization and reform, the Office's
professionalization and their combined office-holding, networks,
and textual production, reveal how early modern curialists got
ahead. This study shows the complexity of successful advancement
strategies that were cultivated over decades and stretched far
beyond papal support.
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