Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797

Eric R Dursteler, Ph.D. (2000) Brown University, is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. His publications include Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

• List of Maps and Figures ... ixContributors ... xiiiAcknowledgements ... xxiIntroduction: A Brief Survey of Histories of Venice ... 1Eric R. DurstelerVenice and Its Surroundings ... 25Elisabeth Crouzet-PavanPolitics and Constitution ... 47Alfredo ViggianoThe Terraferma State ... 85Michael KnaptonVenice’s Maritime Empire in the Early Modern Period ... 125Benjamin ArbelThe Venetian Economy ... 255Luciano PezzoloIndustry and Production in the Venetian Terraferma (15th–18th Centuries) ... 291Edoardo DemoFamily and SocietyAnna Bellavitis ... 319Society and the Sexes in the Venetian Republic ... 353Anne Jacobson SchutteReligious LifeCecilia Cristellon and Silvana Seidel Menchi ... 379Charity and Confraternities ... 421David D’AndreaVenice and its Minorities ... 449Benjamin RavidThe Anthropology of Venice ... 487Edward MuirLiturgies of Violence: Social Control and Power Relationships in the Republic of Venice between the 16th and 18th Centuries ... 513Claudio PovoloWayfarers in Wonderland: The Sexual Worlds of Renaissance Venice Revisited ... 543Guido RuggieroThe Venetian Intellectual World ... 571Margaret L. KingVenetian Literature and Publishing ... 615Linda L. CarrollBook Publishing and the Circulation of Information ... 651Mario InfeliseEducation in the Republic of Venice ... 675Paul F. GrendlerScience and Medicine in Early Modern Venice ... 701William EamonVenetian Architecture ... 743Deborah HowardArt in Venice, 1400–1600 ... 779Wolfgang WoltersVenetian Art, 1600–1797 ... 811Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, and Dulcia MeijersMusic in Venice: A Historigraphical Overview ... 865Jonathan GlixonClothing, Fashion, Dress, and Costume in Venice (c.1450–1650) ... 889Margaret F. RosenthalVenetian Language ... 929Ronnie FergusonAppendix One: Venetian Doges 1400–1797 ... 959Appendix Two: Patriarchs of Grado 1400–1451 and Patriarchs of Venice 1451–1800 ... 960Index ... 961