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003			OCoLC
005			20220928063518.0
008			910917s1992 njuab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 91035635
015			_aGB92-50046
020			_a0691031827 (cl : alk. paper)
020			_a9780691031828 (cl : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aJS5877.A15 _bN87 1992
082	0	0	_a352.045/632 _222
100	1		_aNussdorfer, Laurie.
245	1	0	_aCivic politics in the Rome of Urban VIII / _cLaurie Nussdorfer.
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc1992.
300			_axvi, 287 p. : _bill., maps ; _c25 cm.
500			_ainclude bibliography, index
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-276) and index.
520			_aIn this colorful depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that the lay persons managed to sustain a civic government under the increased papal absolutism of Urban VIII (1623-1644), who oversaw both sacred and secular life. Focusing on the S.P.Q.R. (the Senate and Roman People), which was administered from the Capitoline Hill, she shows that it provided political representation for lay members of the urban elite, carried out the work of local government, and served as a symbol of the Roman voice in public life. Through a detailed study of how civic authorities derived their sense of legitimacy and how lay subjects maneuvered in informal and disguised ways to block or criticize the papal regime, the author advances a new way of conceiving politics under an absolute ruler. As Nussdorfer analyzes the complex interactions between the lay administration and Urban VIII and his family, the papal administration, and Romans of the upper and lower classes, she also provides fresh insights into the actual practice of early modern government. She takes the plague threat of the early 1630s, the War of Castro (1641-1644), and the interregnum following the pope's death as important test cases of the state's power in times of crisis.
600	0	0	_aUrban _bVIII, _cPope, _d1568-1644.
650		0	_aPolitical participation _zItaly _zRome _xHistory _y17th century.
650		0	_aLegitimacy of governments _zItaly _zRome _xHistory _y17th century.
651		0	_aRome (Italy) _xPolitics and government.
651		0	_aRome (Italy) _xHistory _y1420-1798.
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