Venice Reconsidered,9780801873089

Venice Reconsidered

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ISBN13: 9780801873089
ISBN10: 0801873088
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-12-31
Publisher(s): Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
List of Contributors
xv
Reconsidering Venice 1(38)
John Martin
Dennis Romano
Part I. The Setting
Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice
39(28)
Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
Part II. Politics and Culture
The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian Society, 1286--1323
67(22)
Gerhard Rosch
Hard Times and Ducal Radiance: Andrea Dandolo and the Construction of the Ruler in Fourteenth-Century Venice
89(48)
Debra Pincus
Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice after Agnadello
137(31)
Edward Muir
Confronting New Realities: Venice and the Peace of Bologna, 1530
168(17)
Elisabeth G. Gleason
``A Plot Discover'd?'' Myth, Legend, and the ``Spanish'' Conspiracy against Venice in 1618
185(32)
Richard Mackenney
Opera, Festivity, and Spectacle in ``Revolutionary'' Venice: Phantasms of Time and History
217(46)
Martha Feldman
Part III. Society and Culture
Identity and Ideology in Renaissance Venice: The Third Serrata
263(32)
Stanley Chojnacki
Behind the Walls: The Material Culture of Venetian Elites
295(44)
Patricia Fortini Brown
Elite Citizens
339(26)
James S. Grubb
Veronese's High Altarpiece for San Sebastiano: A Patrician Commission for a Counter Reformation Church
365(24)
Peter Humfrey
Early Modern Venice as a Center of Information and Communication
389(31)
Peter Burke
Toward a Social History of Women in Venice: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
420(34)
Federica Ambrosini
Slave Redemption in Venice, 1585--1797
454(37)
Robert C. Davis
Part IV. After the Fall
The Creation of Venetian Historiography
491(30)
Claudio Povolo
Index 521

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