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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Note
Acknowledgements
Map 1: Physical Italy
Map 2: The Italian States, 1559
Map 3: Italian cities and towns
Map 4: The Kingdom of Naples
Map 5: The city of Venice
1: Disunited Italy
Unity and disunity
The chronology and developments of early modern Italy
2: Geography and Demography
Physical geography
Demography
The supply of food
3: The Changing Rural and Urban Economies
General economic trends: decline and shift
Rural and urban inter-relationships
4: The Land and Rural Society
Prelude: contadini, peasants and landowners
Types of land systems and agriculture
Landownership
Inhabitants of the contado and living conditions
5: The Urban Environment
Housing, living conditions and material culture
Organising the urban scene
The organisation and production of goods and services
Meeting places: buying and selling
6: Urban Society
The variety of urban occupations
Women and male occupations
The professionals and officials
Servants
Casual work: labourers, pedlars, sbirri, messengers
Prostitutes
The poor and destitute
7: The Family and Household
Different concepts and composition of the ‘Family’
Formation of the family: marriages and dowries
Personal family relationships
The extended family
8: The Social Elites
Attitudes to nobility and status
Varieties of social elites
9: Social Groupings and Loyalties
Neighbourhood loyalties and urban spatial subdivisions
The Jewish ghettos
Guilds and confraternities
10: Parochial Society
The parish systems and parish priests
Church religious–social life
Church instruction and education
11: Social Tensions, Control and Amelioration
Social disharmony, violence and social control
Riots and revolts
Problems of keeping control
Crime and morality
Religious control and the Inquisitions
Controlling the poor
Social amelioration
12: Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
1: Disunited Italy
2: Geography and Demography
3: The Changing Rural and Urban Economies
4: The Land and Rural Society
5: The Urban Environment
6: Urban Society
7: The Family and Household
8: The Social Elites
9: Social Grouping Sand Loyalties
10: Parochial Society
11: Social Tensions , Control and Amelioration
12: Epilogue
Bibliography
Archival sources
Secondary works
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