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

by Tommaso Astarita

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052189316X
• ISBN13: 9780521893169
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"