Renata Ago

Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni, Department Member

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2 Using Things as Money. An Example from Late Renaissance Rome

Alternative Exchanges

Femmes, dots et patrimoines

Denaturalizing things

Early Modern Things, 2021

Microstoria : a venticinque anni da L'eredità immateriale

Le stanze di Olimpia : la principessa Giustiniani Barberini e il linguaggio delle cose

Risultato di un progetto di ricerca di rilevanza nazional

Les biens meubles. Une propriété qui ne crée pas d’appartenance ?

Appartenance locale et propriété au nord et au sud de la Méditerranée

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Possessions and reputation in 17th-century Rome

The central idea of this project is that since the Renaissance and through the 17 th and 18 th ce... more The central idea of this project is that since the Renaissance and through the 17 th and 18 th centuries, a certain number of artists, scholars and members of the liberal professions 1 struggled to construe themselves as intellectual personae endowed with distinct features that placed them in a distinct social rank. They did so individually and collectively, through theoretical writings and through practice, openly claiming for social recognition or more silently trying to attain it through their actions. I have borrowed the notion of "intellectual personae" from Lorrain Daston and Otto Sibum who in the introduction to a special issue of Science in Context spoke of a persona as "a cultural identity that simultaneously shapes the individual in body and mind and creates a collective with a shared and recognized physiognomy". 2 But while Daston and Sibum were primarily interested in the cultural aspects of this phenomenon, as they considered the fashioning of the scientific personae within the context of the history of science, I would rather focus on its socio-economic and political features within the context of the history of the Ancien regime, i. e. a hierarchical society, strongly characterized by ascribed status. By intellectual personae I thus refer to people exercising very different activities -as I said artists, scholars, lawyers, medicine doctors -and yet sharing a common feature: they were all exercising "intellectual" or "cultivated" professions and providing "cultural" services or goods. And they all pretended that this special quality of their activities placed them in a separate rank: if they did not belong to the titled nobility, they certainly were not members of the laboring ranks of the society. As Max Weber puts it, ascribed social status, based on honor and prestige -rather than on an economically determined relationship to the market like class -, is the major component of the social stratification within a "patrimonial state" like the early modern ones. 3 Within this cultural and political context it is not surprising that the primary goal of the intellectual personae was to enhance their position 1 I refer here just to law and medicine, liberal professions in the actual, not in the early modern, sense of the term 2 L.

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Rome in the 17th Century: A Baroque Market

This article analyses several particular aspects of 17th century society and economy in a large “... more This article analyses several particular aspects of 17th century society and economy in a large “consumer” city like Rome. The chief interest of this approach lies in the fact that the economic mechanisms involved were different from those of both market and feudal economies; unlike the latter, no production factor was excluded from the market and value was usually determined by the unrestricted interplay of supply and demand. Yet, neither was the “baroque” economy a market economy, in the classical sense of the term, first because the definition of property rights was more concerned with the actual state of affairs than with the rule of law and, secondly, because low demand kept sellers from removing the ambiguity by claiming all of their property rights. The typically neo-institutional question of contract certification, on the other hand, seemed secondary, because contracts were, in fact, fully guaranteed by both notaries and the courts, which accepted witnesses and the “publicit...

Consumi e ricchezze in età moderna

FRA tardo medioevo e rinascimento : Continuità e cesure nei ceti nobiliari romani

Gender, Material Culture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Rome

Il saggio analizza le differenti esperienze degli abitanti delle città, sulla base delle loro app... more

Transmettre des biens meubles. Hommes et femmes face aux objets

Mobilité et transmission dans les sociétés de l’Europe moderne, 2009

I. Ceux qui ont travaillé sur les testaments d’Ancien Régime, soit pour étudier la transmission d... more I. Ceux qui ont travaillé sur les testaments d’Ancien Régime, soit pour étudier la transmission des biens soit pour répondre à d’autres interrogations, ont dû remarquer la fréquence avec laquelle les testateurs, et surtout les testatrices, instituaient des legs de biens meubles. Dans un essai fondé sur un échantillon d’environ 840 testaments rédigés à Turin entre 1650 et 1710, Sandra Cavallo note, par exemple, que les legs d’effets personnels constituent plus de la moitié des testaments fémin..

Le genre de la consommation à l’époque moderne

Genre, femmes, histoire en Europe, 2011

L’ESSOR DES ETUDES SUR LA CONSOMMATION L’histoire de la consommation est plutôt récente. Ce fut e... more L’ESSOR DES ETUDES SUR LA CONSOMMATION L’histoire de la consommation est plutôt récente. Ce fut en effet dans les années 1970 du xxe siècle que parurent les premières études. Pionnier dans ce champ fut l’essai de l’historien anglais Neil McKendrick, qui était dédié à la demande interne anglaise et à son rôle vis-à-vis de la révolution industrielle. Dans son article, McKendrick avançait en effet la thèse que ce fut le nouveau désir de confort domestique, affiché par les femmes, qui entraîna le..

Rome’s Economic Life, 1492–1692

A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692, 2019

Paintings

A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome

The Great Collections

A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Furnishings and Clothing

A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome

The Function of Goods

A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Gusto for Things: A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome. By Renata Ago (trans. Bradford Bouley and Corey Tazzara with Paula Findlen) (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013) 314 pp. $55.00 cloth $7.00 to $44.00 ebook

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2014

Costruire la parentela: donne e uomini nella definizione dei legami familiari

numero monografico di "Quaderni Storici", 8

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