Venice reconsidered : the history and civilization of an Italian city-state, 1297-1797 / edited by John Martin and Dennis Romano.

Title & Author:

Venice reconsidered : the history and civilization of an Italian city-state, 1297-1797 / edited by John Martin and Dennis Romano.

Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Description:

538 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reconsidering Venice / John Martin and Dennis Romano -- 1. Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice / Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan -- 2. The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian Society, 1286-1323 / Gerhard Rosch -- 3. Hard Times and Ducal Radiance: Andrea Dandolo and the Construction of the Ruler in Fourteenth-Century Venice / Debra Pincus -- 4. Was These Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice after Agnadello / Edward Muir -- 5. Confronting New Realities: Venice and the Peace of Bologna, 1530 / Elisabeth G. Gleason -- 6. "A Plot Discover'd?" Myth, Legend, and the "Spanish" Conspiracy against Venice in 1618 / Richard MacKenney -- 7. Opera, Festivity, and Spectacle in "Revolutionary" Venice: Phantasms of Time and History / Martha Feldman -- 8. Identity and Ideology in Renaissance Venice: The Third Serrata / Stanley Chojnacki -- 9. Behind the Walls: The Material Culture of Venetian Elites / Patricia Fortini Brown -- 10. Elite Citizens / James S. Grubb -- 11. Veronese's High Altarpiece for San Sebastiano: A Patrician Commission for a Counter Reformation Church / Peter Humfrey -- 12. Early Modern Venice as a Center of Information and Communication / Peter Burke -- 13. Toward a Social History of Women in Venice: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / Federica Ambrosini -- 14. Slave Redemption in Venice, 1585-1797 / Robert C. Davis -- 15. The Creation of Venetian Historiography / Claudio Povolo.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801863120 (alk. paper)
9780801863127

Subject:

City-states Italy Civilization.
Cités-États Italie Civilisation.
Civilization
Venice (Italy) Civilization To 1797.
Venise (Italie) Civilisation Jusqu'à 1797.
Italy
Italy Venice
Venècia (Itàlia) Història S. XIII-XVIII.

Added entries:

Martin, John, 1951-
Romano, Dennis, 1951-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217038
Call No.: DG675.6 .V4 2000
Status: Available

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