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Intangible legacy. The career of one seventeenth-century Piedmontese exorcist

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Intangible legacy. The career of one seventeenth-century Piedmontese exorcist
14.99 €
1697. In a small Piedmontese village, Giovan Battista Chiesa, a priest who has been engaged in mass exorcisms of demons against the orders of the archbishop, is arrested. The condemnation and subsequent disappearance of the protagonist become the starting point of the study, in which the history of an individual life is correlated with the general theoretical concepts put forward by scholars in relation to the XVII century. Giovanni Levi, one of the founders of the microhistorical approach, reconstructs in detail the biographies of all the villagers who left a documentary trace, and uses these materials to reinterpret important aspects of European life in the early modern period, from the mechanisms of the land market and family strategies to the formation of the local political class and the cultural characterization of opposing social groups. The story of Giovan Battista Chiesa shows that one of the key problems of everyday village life under the Old Regime was the preservation of intangible values as generations changed: power, prestige, positions, and professional skills. Using this example, the author demonstrates how many events crucial to the development of society occur at a time when, at first glance, nothing seems to be happening in people's lives. Giovanni Levi is an Italian historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Ca' Foscari.
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