Series | Studi di storia
Volume 19 | Monograph | Una sociabilità laicizzata

Una sociabilità laicizzata

Il circondario di Guastalla e l’Oltrepò mantovano dal 1848 alla Belle Époque

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  • Marco Fincardi - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email

Abstract

This volume investigates the decline of the clergy influence in the Po Valley countryside between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by retracing its connection with the growth of capitalist mercantilism and farm labour movements in the area. The urbanization of many social practices gradually replaced the religious symbolism and catholic rituals that used to permeate the traditional collective mentality and were believed to grant the protection from rivers and climatic adversities. From popular gatherings to country festivals, the values of a new secular sociability replaced the ties of rural society and the dense network of villages and towns, up to the widespread development of farm labour organizations, a reference for a new balance of municipal powers.

Keywords Rural sociability • Agricultural workers communities • Po Valley towns • Urbanization of the countryside • Popular secularism

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-772-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-772-2 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-773-9 | Published Dec. 5, 2023 | Accepted June 15, 2023 | Submitted May 5, 2023 | Language it

Copyright © 2023 Marco Fincardi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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