Abstract
List of illustrations Preface References Part I. Introduction: 1. The historical anthropology of early modern Italy 2. The sources: outsiders and insiders Part II. Modes of Perception: 3. Classifying the people: the census as collective representation 4. The bishop's questions and the people's religion 5. How to be a Counter-Reformation saint 6. Perceiving a counter-culture Part III. Modes of Communication: 7. Languages and anti-languages in early modern Italy 8. Insult and blasphemy in early modern Italy 9. The uses of literacy in early modern Italy 10. Conspicuous consumption in seventeenth-century Italy 11. The presentation of self in the Renaissance portrait 12. Sacred rulers, royal priests: rituals of the early modern popes 13. The carnival of Venice 14. The virgin of the Carmine and the revolt of Masaniello 15. Rituals of healing in early modern Italy Part IV. Conclusion: 16. The repudiation of ritual in early modern Europe Notes Bibliography Index.
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