Power And Religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini Cultural PoliciesIn 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 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. |
Contents
power in the streets | 13 |
Papal power | 35 |
The power of the papal relatives | 43 |
Holy or unholy power? | 51 |
Conclusion | 59 |
A sense of family between Curial careers and social status | 65 |
the influence of Trent | 78 |
Opus finitum? | 89 |
Preparations | 186 |
The second audience and the papal banquet | 199 |
Conclusion | 216 |
Anoutlineofthecase | 222 |
The historical reality of the new image | 233 |
symbol meaning and function | 240 |
Conclusion | 254 |
the power | 296 |
Chapter Two Maffeo Barberini Urban VIII the PoetPope | 95 |
Thefirstpapaledition | 112 |
delectareetdocere | 136 |
Introduction | 144 |
Young Francescos days and works | 158 |
the roles of | 173 |
the very model of a modern cardinalpadrone? | 179 |
16281633 | 304 |
Conclusion | 334 |
restored | 372 |
the Vatican Library and | 401 |
Conclusion lEtà fortunata del Mele or Honeys Happy | 427 |
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