Mezzogiorno and Feudality

Anna Maria Rao

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-144-4

Mezzogiorno and Feudality: Feudal lordship and nobility from Charles of Bourbon to the French decade

Authors

Anna Maria Rao

University of Naples Federico II

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-144-4

Keywords:

Mezzogiorno and Feudality, Feudal lordship and nobility from Charles of Bourbon to the French decade

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 270

Language: italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28450

Abstract: The volume deals with the theme of the feudal question, crucial for the history of the Mezzogiorno, in a long eighteenth century, from the Austrian period to the beginning of nineteenth century. Historiographic debate, legal treaties, philosophical and economic writings, administrative documents, rules and disputes: around feudalism and the role of the feud in the processes of ennobling and social mobility there is a whole interweaving of government interventions, reflections, protests, sometimes rebellions. The feudal question is confirmed as a problematic node of reform policies, of civil and economic development projects of Sicilies in the context of European transformations, and of the historiographic tradition on and of the South. Not only that but, far from a mere polemical invention of the Enlightenment writers, it re-emerges as a constitutive dimension of the social, political and legal organization, although certainly far from representing southern history as a whole. Attempts at reform and resistance unfold throughout the century, from Charles of Bourbon and his minister Bernardo Tanucci up to the anti-feudal law of 1799 and the subversive laws of Giuseppe Bonaparte and Gioacchino Murat.

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Author Biography

Anna Maria Rao, University of Naples Federico II

Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Naples Federico II, Anna Maria Rao was president of the International Commission for the History of the French Revolution and of the Italian Society of Studies on the 18th Century. She deals with the political and cultural history of the eighteenth-century Italy and the revolutionary and Napoleonic age. Among his publications: Esuli. L’emigrazione politica italiana in Francia (1792-1802), Napoli, Guida, 1992; L’“amaro della feudalità”. La devoluzione di Arnone e la questione feudale a Napoli alla fine del ’700, 2nd ed., Napoli, Luciano, 1997; Lumi riforme rivoluzione. Percorsi storiografici, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011; Tra insegnamento e ricerca. La storia della rivoluzione francese (ed.), Napoli, ClioPress, 2015; Corte e cerimoniale di Carlo di Borbone a Napoli (ed.), Napoli, FedOA Press, 2020; La Repubblica napoletana del 1799, Napoli, FedOA Press, 2021.