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Caroline Castiglione examines how seemingly marginalized individuals challenged systems of power in Italy during the period 1500-1800. Her book, Patrons and Adversaries, demonstrated that rural residents successfully contested urban rule through the strategies of adversarial literacy. She now investigates Roman aristocratic mothers involved in intense familial conflicts. Her studies illuminate how subaltern groups used judicial means to broaden received beliefs about their rights in society and in the family.
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Caroline Castiglione writes about the political and cultural history of early modern Italy (1500-1800). She earned a B.A. in French in 1985 from Trinity University and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1995. Before coming to Brown in 2005, she taught history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she won the first prize awarded for excellence in teaching writing (2003). Her book Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760 (Oxford, 2005) won the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies in 2005. In addition to her publications on politics in early modern Italy, she has also published articles related to her new project, Extravagant Pretensions, which examines unpublished writings by women describing the family crises of early modern Rome. She teaches courses on microhistory, women's history, and law courts in early modern Italy.
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