Early Modern History Lm A 2020/2021

Early Modern Rome

The module focuses on the connections between the main events of European History and the social, institutional and cultural history of Rome during the Early Modern and Modern Age. The political and social use of urban space (holy places, "polycentrism" of court and curia) as well as the cultural construction of the "Mith of Rome" from the tradition of the "Grand Tour" will be investigated also through guided tours . Particular attention will be devoted to recent interpretations of the Modern Papal State, also through appropriate reading, in-class presentations and written exercises.

Students attending the courses:

1. Court and politics in papal Rome, 1492-1700, edited by Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia, Cambridge : Cambridge University press, 2002

2. Selections of essays from:

- Art and identity in early modern Rome / edited by Jill Burke and Michael Bury

Aldershot : Ashgate, 2008

- A companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch and Simon Ditchfield, Leiden : Brill, 2019

Students not attending the courses:

1. Court and politics in papal Rome, 1492-1700, edited by Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia, Cambridge : Cambridge University press, 2002

2. The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763 / by Chris Cook and Philip Broadhead, London-New York : Routledge, 2006