Table of Contents

John A. Marino: Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders on the Grand Tour I The Institutional Framework: Late Renaissance Resolutions1: Thomas J. Dandelet: Politics and the State System after the Habsburg-Valois Wars 2: John Jeffries Martin: Religion, Renewal, and Reform of the Old Church II Material Life: Economic, Social, and Political, and Economic Trajectories3: John A. Marino: Economic Structures and Transformations 4: Gianna Pomata: Family and Gender 5: R. Burr Litchfield: The Social World: Cohesion, Conflict, and the City 6: Geoffrey Symcox: The Political World of the Absolutist State in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries III Ideologies and Practices: Competing Languages, Converging Visions7: Anne Jacobson Schutte: Religion, Spirituality, and the Post-Tridentine Church 8: Jon R Snyder: Mare Magnum: the Arts in the Early Modern Age 9: Paula Findlen: Science and Society 10: David Gentilcore: The Ethnography of Everyday Life IV The Challenge and Crisis of the Old Regime11: Brendan Dooley: The Public Sphere and the Organization of Knowledge 12: Anna Maria Rao: Enlightenment and Reform John A. Marino: Conclusion Further Reading Chronology Maps

About the Author

John Marino is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. His publications include Pastoral Economics in the Kingdom of Nales and Good Government in Spanish Naples. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, a Fondazione Fellowship, an Exxon Fellowship, and a Newberry Library-NEH Fellowship, and is past president of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.

Reviews

... this is a first rate volume ... Throughout, the pieces are interesting and the volume is important, not simply for specialists on Italy but also for those interested in early modern European history ... The essays are state-of-the-art, and the book will be useful to scholars and students alike. * Journal of European Studies *