Residential Strategies, Construction of the Urban Space and Social Distinction in Naples between the 14 th and 16 th Centuries
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/9082Keywords:
Middle Ages, 14th-16th Centuries, Kingdom of Naples, Naples, Nobility, Urban space, social prominence.Abstract
Based mostly on unpublished documents, the essay illustrates how urban space was occupied by some noble families ascribed to the Neapolitan Seggio of Nido between the 14th and 16th centuries. Residential strategies in their relational density, residential blocks, common courtyards, gardens, porticoes, towers, churches and chapels define different forms of rootedness and control of the urban space. These are competing processes of construction and reproduction of spatial prominence, through which the position of families and clans in the relational structure of the Seggio of Nido was translated into stone. They reflect the specific meaning attributed to vetustas, i.e. rootedness and unflinching control of the urban space. This must be understood as a strong criterion of social distinction and as a symbolic notion of the imagery of nobility, codified by the ancient aristocracy of the Seggio in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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