The Continuity of Feudal Power: The Caracciolo Di Brienza in Spanish Naples

Tommaso Astarita

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511523243

The Continuity of Feudal Power

The Caracciolo Di Brienza in Spanish Naples

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Tommaso Astarita, Georgetown University, Washington DC

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: August 2009
Print publication year:: 1991
Online ISBN:: 9780511523243
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523243

Subjects:: Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

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The Continuity of Feudal Power is an analytic study of a family of the Neapolitan aristocracy during the early modern period, with particular focus on the time of Spanish rule (1503–1707). The Caracciolo marquis of Brienza were a branch of one of the oldest and most powerful clans in the kingdom of Naples, and they numbered among the hundred wealthiest feudal families throughout the early modern period. Professor Astarita reconstructs the family's patrimony, administration and revenues, the family's relationship with the rural communities over which it had jurisdiction, its marriage and alliance policies, and the relations between the aristocracy and the monarchical government. His emphasis is on the continuing importance of feudal traditions, institutions and values both in the definition of the aristocracy's status and in its success in ensuring the persistence of its wealth and power within the kingdom.

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The Continuity of Feudal Power

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of plates, figures, and maps
pp vi-vi

List of tables
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-ix

Note on abbreviations and measurements
pp x-x

Introduction
pp 1-18

1 - The Caracciolo di Brienza
pp 19-35

2 - Structure and evolution of an aristocratic patrimony
pp 36-67

3 - The management of an aristocratic landed patrimony
pp 68-107

4 - The feudal lord and his vassals: between traditional paternalism and change
pp 108-158

5 - Aristocratic strategies for the preservation of family wealth
pp 159-201

6 - Offices, courts, and taxes; the aristocracy and the Spanish rule
pp 202-232

Conclusion
pp 233-235

Glossary
pp 236-239

Appendix on sources
pp 240-250

Bibliography
pp 251-271

Index
pp 272-281

CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY
pp 282-283

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