1st Edition
Production of Locality in the Early Modern and Modern Age Places
By Angelo Torre
Copyright 2020
248 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is a microhistory study of village settlements in early modern Northwest Italy that aims to expand the notion of place to include the process of producing a locality; that is, the production of native local subjects through practices, rituals and other forms of collective action. Undertaking a micro-analytical approach, the book examines the customs and practices associated with... Read more
Introduction
Part I Matrices
1. Community Building: Brotherhoods, Bodies and Municipalities
2. The Eucharist and the Generation of Space
3. Separate Lands
Part II From Law to Culture
4. Transit
5. Possession and Fiscality
6. Vindication and Oblivion
Part III After the Flood
7. Tourism and Civic Uses
8. Production of Locality Today
Conclusions
Biography
Angelo Torre is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy. He studied early modern micropolitics through religious and jurisdictional sources. He wrote Il consumo di devozioni (1995) and edited Per vie di terra (2007) and is currently the editor of the journal Quaderni storici.
