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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Venice reconsidered. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)605467652 Online version: Venice reconsidered. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)606430408 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Jeffries Martin; Dennis Romano |
ISBN: | 0801863120 9780801863127 |
OCLC Number: | 43317452 |
Description: | xiii, 538 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Reconsidering Venice / John Martin adn Dennis Romano -- Toward an ecological understanding of the myth of Venice / Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan -- The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian society, 1286-1323 / Gerhard Rösch -- Hard times and ducal radiance : Andrea Dandolo and the construction of the ruler in fourteenth-century Venice / Debra Pincus -- Was there republicanism in the Rensaissance republics? Venice after Agnadello / Edward Muir -- Confronting new realities : Venice and the Peace of Bologna, 1530 / Elisabeth G. Gleason -- "A plot discover'd?" Myth, legend, and the "Spanish" conspiracy against Venice in 1618 / Richard Mackenney -- Opera, festivity, and spectacle in "revolutionary" Venice : phantasms of time and history / Martha Feldman -- Identity and ideology in Renaissance Venice : the third Serrata / Stanley Chojnacki -- Behind the walls : the material culture of Venetian elites / Patricia Fortini Brown -- Elite citizens / James S. Grubb -- Veronese's high altarpiece for San Sebastiano : a patrician commission for a counter reformation church / Peter Humfrey -- Early modern Venice as a center of information and communication / Peter Burke -- Toward a social history of women in Venice : from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / Federica Ambrosini -- Slave redemption in Venice, 1585-1797 / Robert C. Davis -- The creation of Venetian historiography / Claudio Povolo. |
Responsibility: | edited by John Martin and Dennis Romano. |
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"A welcome and illuminating book." -- Thomas Kuehn, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "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 "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 "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 "Chronological width is matched by thematic wealth... The volume is likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography." -- Filippo de Vivo, The Historical Journal "Provides an excellent survey of the state of current research on the city." -- Jonathan Walker, Journal of European Studies "A welcome and illuminating book." -- Thomas Kuehn, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Read more...

