Venice Reconsidered

The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Av John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano, Duke University) Martin, John Jeffries (Professor, Dennis (Syracuse University) Romano

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Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines-history, art history, and musicology-these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice-that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-03-29
Mått156 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt794 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor560
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801873089

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John Jeffries Martin, author of Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City and editor of The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad, is a professor of history at Trinity University. Dennis Romano, author of Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State and Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600, is a professor of history at Syracuse University.

Contents: PrefaceList of ContributorsReconsidering Venice John Martin and Dennis Romano Part I. The Setting1 Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan Part II. Politics and Culture2 The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian Society, 1286-1323 Gerhard Rosch3 Hard Times and Ducal Radiance: Andrea Dandolo and the Construction of the Ruler in Fourteenth-Century Venice Debra Pincus4 Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice after Agnadello Edward Muir5 Confronting New Realities: Venice and the Peace of Bologna, 1530 Elisabeth G. Gleason6 "A Plot Discover'd?"Myth, Legend, and the "Spanish"Conspiracy against Venice in 1618 Richard Mackenney7 Opera, Festivity, and Spectacle in "Revolutionary"Venice: Phantasms of Time and History Martha Feldman Part III. Society and Culture8 Identity and Ideology in Renaissance Venice: The Third Serrata Stanley Chojnacki9 Behind the Walls: The Material Culture of Venetian Elites Patricia Fortini Brown10 Elite Citizens James S. Grubb11 Veronese's High Altarpiece for San Sebastiano: A Patrician Commissionfor Counter Reformation Church Peter Humfrey12 Early Modern Venice as a Center of Information and Communication Peter Burke13 Toward a Social History of Women in Venice: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Federica Ambrosini14 Slave Redemption in Venice, 1585-1797 Robert C. Davis Part IV. After the Fall15 The Creation of Venetian Historiography Claudio Povolo Index

A welcome and illuminating book. -- Thomas Kuehn Journal of Interdisciplinary History Succeeds both in reassessing outdated conceptions of life under the Venetian Republic and in proposing new fields of research... This book contributes substantially toward a more comprehensive, complex view of Venice... This is an exemplary collection of essays that provides a fresh look at five hundred years of Venetian social and political history. -- Christopher Carlsmith Sixteenth-Century Journal Provides an excellent survey of the state of current research on the city. -- Jonathan Walker Journal of European Studies Chronological width is matched by thematic wealth... The volume is likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography. -- Filippo de Vivo The Historical Journal