Patronage and Dynasty
Patronage and Dynasty

Author: Ian F. Verstegen

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1935503588

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This collection of essays offers a thorough study of the patron-artist relationship through the lens of one of early modern Italy’s most powerful and influential historical families. Contributors present a longitudinal study of the della Rovere family’s ascent into Italian nobility. The della Rovere was a family of popes, cardinals, and powerful dukes who financed some of the world’s best-known and greatest artwork. The essays explore the issue of identity and its maintenance, of carving a permanent spot for a family name in a rapidly changing atmosphere. Although these studies depart from art patronage, they uncover how the popes, cardinals, dukes, and signore of the della Rovere family constituted their identity. Originally a nouveau-riche creation of papal nepotism, the della Rovere first populated the ranks of cardinals under the powerful popes Sixtus IV and Julius II. Within the framework of later papal relations, the family negotiated its position within the economy of Italian nobles.

Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul
Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul

Author: Gregory I. Halfond

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1501739328

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Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales. Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties. However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate's corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.

Pecado y Penitencia de Un Sacerdote
Pecado y Penitencia de Un Sacerdote

Author: P. M. Mart Nez

Publisher: Palibrio

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1463336195

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Pecado y penitencia de un sacerdote es una ficción inspirada en los escándalos provocados por el clero católico. Presenta la imagen de un sacerdote puro y casto que sublima su sexualidad enfocándola en una ambición egoísta donde el poder es lo importante. Gisela, es una mujer materialista, tentadora, con miedos e incertidumbres que prefiere sacrificar el verdadero amor cambio de un status social que fortalezca su propio ego. Ambos intereses se mezclan en una historia que traspasa las fronteras de la realidad para ubicarse en una eternidad donde hay una última oportunidad de romper las cadenas morales de una sociedad llena de prejuicios y restricciones. Se trata de una novela pasional que mantiene los sentimientos y emociones del lector a flor de piel en un juego que llega a ser una penitencia por cometer el pecado de enamorarse.

Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage

Author: Phebe Lowell Bowditch

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001-03-02

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780520925892

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This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges standard views on literary patronage in this period. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage provides a striking new understanding of Horace's poems and the Roman system of patronage, and also demonstrates the relevance of New Historicist and Marxist critical paradigms for Roman studies. In addition to incorporating anthropological and sociological perspectives, Bowditch's theoretical approach makes use of concepts drawn from linguistics, deconstruction, and the work of Michel Foucault. She weaves together these ideas in an original approach to Horace's use of golden age imagery, his language concerning public gifts or munera, his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage represents an original approach to central issues and questions in the study of Latin literature, and sheds new light on our understanding of Roman society in general.