Description
Roman Tales
A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory
Microhistories Series
Author: Cohen Thomas V.
Language: EnglishSubject for Roman Tales:
Keywords
Julius III; Pope Paul III; microhistory; Past Tenses; Sixteenth-century Rome; Ponte Rotto; 16th century; Swiss Cheese; Catholic Church; Draw Back; On a Winter’s Night a Traveler; Vice Versa; Calvino; Deep Red; Sistine Chapel; Home Town; Pius IV; Santa Maria Della Pace; Rome; Jews; Giovanni Paolo; Madrid; Gold Scudi; Carnival; Funes El Memorioso; domestic witchcraft; Father Leo; White Angel; Cardinal Du Bellay; poison; Trial's Timeline; Christians; Giovanni Carafa; Renaissance Rome; Ambassador's Son; microhistorical research; magic prophetic mirror; Aspiring Film Maker; Living Saint; Wet Nurse; Blessed Candle; Rome's Jews
Publication date: 06-2021
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 05-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Roman Tales: A Reader?s Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.
This book draws the reader deep into eight stories: a Christian-Jewish picnic plus an ill-aimed stone fight, an embassy-driven attack on Rome's police, a magic prophetic mirror, an immured mad hermit, a stolen dwarf, and the bizarre misadventures of a stolen roll of velvet, a truly odd elopement, and a thieving child who treats his cronies to dinner at the inn. It meditates on the resources and lacunae that shape the telling of these stories and, through them, it models an historical method that contrives to turn the limits of our knowledge into an advantage by writing honestly and movingly, to bring a dead past back to life, exemplifying and stretching the genre of microhistory. It also discusses strategies for teaching through intensive use of old documents, with a particular focus on criminal tribunal papers.
Engagingly written, Roman Tales outlines the main principles of microhistorical research and draws the reader outwards towards a wider exploration and discovery of sixteenth-century Rome. It is ideal for researchers of microhistory, and of medieval and early modern Italy.
Ackowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 First Thoughts; 2If on a Summer's Eve a Traveller, or Two; 3 White Angel; 4 The Spanish Ambassador's Brawl; 5 Hermit on Trial; 6 The Case of the Purloined Dwarf; 7 Black Velvet's Odd Adventure; 8 Nicolina Runs Away; 9 A Boy Steals Gold; Afterword
Thomas V. Cohen is a professor of history at York University, Canada. His previous publications include Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (2004).