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A welcome and illuminating book.
Succeeds both in reassessing outdated conceptions of life under the Venetian Republic and in proposing new fields of research...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.
Provides an excellent survey of the state of current research on the city.
Chronological width is matched by thematic wealth... The volume is likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography.
John Martin and Dennis Romano make a very persuasive and compelling argument for the radical shift in Venetian historiography, from the strands of myth and anti-myth in traditional scholarship to the contemporary image—more complex, more nuanced, and more flexible—developed by the other essays in this volume.
An exemplary collection of essays which taken together demonstrate not only how much our view of Venice has changed in the past twenty-five years but also how much the Venetians' representation of themselves changed over the half millennium of the Republic's history.
This important and wide-ranging collection offers a variety of approaches to different aspects of Venetian history; the essays are substantial, based on extensive archival research, and well balanced; and they will prove essential reading for anyone interested in Venice for a long time to come.
A dramatic reassessment of Venetian history.
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Available
Trim Size
6.125
x 9.25
Pages
560
ISBN
9780801876448
Illustration Description
48 halftones
Subject
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Part I. The Setting
Chapter 1. Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice
Part II. Politics and Culture
Chapter 2. The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian
Preface
List of Contributors
Part I. The Setting
Chapter 1. Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice
Part II. Politics and Culture
Chapter 2. The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian Society, 1286–1323
Chapter 3. Hard Times and Ducal Radiance: Andrea Dandolo and the Construction of the Ruler in Fourteenth-Century Venice
Chapter 4. Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice after Agnadello
Chapter 5. Confronting New Realities: Venice and the Peace of Bologna, 1530
Chapter 6. "A Plot Discover'd?"Myth, Legend, and the "Spanish"Conspiracy against Venice in 1618
Chapter 7. Opera, Festivity, and Spectacle in "Revolutionary"Venice: Phantasms of Time and History
Part III. Society and Culture
Chapter 8. Identity and Ideology in Renaissance Venice: The Third Serrata
Chapter 9. Behind the Walls: The Material Culture of Venetian Elites
Chapter 10. Elite Citizens
Chapter 11. Veronese's High Altarpiece for San Sebastiano: A Patrician Commissionfor Counter Reformation Church
Chapter 12. Early Modern Venice as a Center of Information and Communication
Chapter 13. Toward a Social History of Women in Venice: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Chapter 14. Slave Redemption in Venice, 1585–1797
Part IV. After the Fall
Chapter 15. The Creation of Venetian Historiography
Index
