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- Title
«Li spagnoli andorono via da Casale». Incontri e scontri lungo la via delle Fiandre in Monferrato.
- Authors
Alice Raviola, Blythe
- Abstract
The scenario is that of the camino de Flandes, made famous by Geoffrey Parker but still not fully known in the area between Liguria and Lombardy. The years are those of the two wars of Monferrato, which, in addition to being central moments in the history of seventeenth-century Europe -- the first as a foreshadow of the Thirty Years' War, the second as part of this war and decisive in the clash between France and Spain -- are deeply engraved on the local setup and on the perception of the "foreigner" by the populations affected by raids, sieges, battles and forced supply. Thus, through the analysis of tax sources and contemporary chronicles, I observe the way the presence of Spanish, imperial, French, and House of Savoy soldiers, and mercenaries of various origin had heavy and sometimes tragic effects on the merchants and farmers of Gonzaga's Monferrato between 1613 and 1659. These were years in which the construction of the ideas of enemy and stranger ware consolidated, not only affecting the foreign policy of small peninsular states, but also penetrating deep into collective mentality.
- Subjects
MONFERRATO (Italy); ITALY; MONFERRATO War, 1613-1618; NONCITIZENS; ITALIAN history; GONZAGA family; ENEMIES; STRANGERS; FRENCH influences on Italian civilization; ITALIAN civilization; HISTORICAL source material; SPANISH civilization
- Publication
Chronica Mundi, 2013, Vol 6-8, Issue 1-3, p78
- ISSN
2239-7515
- Publication type
Article