"In the spring of 1757, the Augustinian friar Leopoldo di San Pasquale was tried in Naples by the hierarchies of his own religious order on charges of financial fraud, heresy, and sexual immorality. He responded by accusing the heads of the convent of subjecting him to a series of inhuman cruelties, claiming to have been "buried alive". While waiting for a final judgement (it was pronounced seven years later, in 1764), the trial of Leopoldo di San Pasquale became a cultural phenomenon unlike any witnessed before in Naples. Cumulatively, reactions to the trial, both during and after it, broke the boundaries separating chronicle and literary fiction, engaged people's faculties of reason and emotion, and ultimately transformed Leopoldo into a public spectacle-or what we might call today a "celebrity." Focusing on the scandalous affair of the "buried alive", this book shows how the governing authorities in Naples managed the development of news and stories around current events through their systems of courts and bureaucracies. It also aims to demonstrate how, just as importantly, consumers played an increasing in the spread of information, as means to political empowerment. The sources analyzed call for a microhistorical analysis, as well as for an interdisciplinary discussion with media studies at its conceptual core. A Criminal Hero will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in microhistory, cultural history, media history, history of literature, social and political history, with a focus on the 18th century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The revolt of snowballs : Murano confronts Venice, 1511 / Claire Judde de Larivière
A tale of a fool? a microhistory of an 18th-Century peasant woman / Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir
Roman tales : a reader's guide to the art of microhistory / Thomas V. Cohen
Puritan family and community in the English Atlantic world "much afflicted with conscience" / Margaret Manchester
Five parishes in late medieval and Tudor London communities and reforms / Gary G. Gibbs
The great Nightmen conspiracy : a tale of the 18th Century's dishonourable underworld / Tyge Krogh
Production of locality in the early modern and modern age places / Angelo Torre
Emotional experience and microhistory : a life story of a destitute pauper poet in the 19th century / Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Power in the village social networks, honor, and justice among immigrant families from Italy to Brazil / Maíra Ines Vendrame
The exorcist of Sombor : the mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan friar / Dániel Bárth
Who killed panayot? reforming Ottoman legal culture in the 19th Century / Omri Paz
A humanist on the frontier : the life story of a sixteenth-century Central European pastor / Marcell Sebők
The rise of national socialism in the Bavarian highlands : a microhistory of Murnau, 1919-1933 / Edith Raim
Neighbours of passage : a microhistory of migrants in a Paris tenement, 1882-1932 / Fabrice Langrognet
Patronage, power, and masculinity in medieval England : a microhistory of a bishop's and knight's contest over the Church of Thame / Andrew G. Miller
The musician and the senator : the microhistory of a friendship / Vincenzo Barra
El terrible : life and labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939 / Patricia A. Schechter.
ISBN
9781032722252
1032722258
9781032722276 ((paperback))
1032722274
LCCN
2024011282
OCLC
1427180073
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