1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453420803321

Autore

Petkov Kiril <1964->

Titolo

The anxieties of a citizen class : the miracles of the true cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 / / by Kiril Petkov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-25981-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

The Medieval Mediterranean : Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500, , 0928-5520 ; ; Volume 99

Disciplina

305.5/5094531109024

Soggetti

Miracles - Italy - Venice - History

Holy Cross

Electronic books.

Venice (Italy) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Setting the Stage: The Privilege of the Donation of the Cross -- 2 Upward Bound: The Vendramin and the Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo -- 3 Relics, Business, and Nature: The Miracle with Andrea Vendramin’s Oil Ships -- 4 Church, State, and Sainthood: Francesco Querini and the Miracle with the Demoniac -- 5 Drawing a Line between Citizen Classes: Regimenting the popolani in the Miracle at the Bridge of San Lio -- 6 Healing the Sick, Helping the Poor: Service and Identity in the Miracle of the Daughter of Nicolo di Benvegnudo -- 7 The Miracle of Paolo Rabia: The Rise and Fall of Entrepreneurial Leadership -- 8 The Merchant of Brescia: Incorporating the terraferma in the Miracle of the Son of Giacomo de Salis -- 9 The Body Feverish and the Body Politic: Medicine, Politics, and Religion in the Healing of Piero de Lodovico -- 10 Maritime Empire, Mobility, and Cross-cultural Identity: The Miracle of Antonio Rizzo -- 11 The Miracle of Alvise Finetti’s Boy: Finance, the State, and the Future of the cittadini originarii -- Conclusion Method, At Last -- Appendix Incunabulum 249bis (ex. 222), Museo Civico Correr, Venice, circa 1490 -- Bibliography -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

In The Anxieties of a Citizen Class: The Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 Kiril Petkov identifies the socio-psychological preoccupations accompanying the formation of the leading commoner group of early Renaissance Venice, the cittadini originarii , as revealed in a cycle of miracles performed by a fragment of the True Cross owned by the brotherhood of San Giovanni Evangelista. The study’s principal contention is that the miracles trace the evolution of the citizen elite from members of a large, fluid group of men of affairs to community managers to state servants. Each miracle highlights a stage of that process and the social anxieties engendered in the acquisition of a specific social identity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453140203321

Autore

Finnemore Martha

Titolo

The purpose of intervention [[electronic resource] ] : changing beliefs about the use of force / / Martha Finnemore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8014-6706-3

0-8014-3845-4

0-8014-6707-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

Cornell studies in security affairs

Disciplina

327.1/17

Soggetti

Intervention (International law)

Military policy - Decision making

Humanitarian intervention

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Purpose of Force -- 2. Sovereign Default and Military Intervention -- 3. Changing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention -- 4. Intervention and International Order -- 5. How Purpose Changes -- Appendix:



Measuring Material Distribution of Power -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its members' priorities.In The Purpose of Intervention, Martha Finnemore uses one type of force, military intervention, as a window onto the shifting character of international society. She examines the changes, over the past 400 years, about why countries intervene militarily, as well as in the ways they have intervened. It is not the fact of intervention that has altered, she says, but rather the reasons for and meaning behind intervention-the conventional understanding of the purposes for which states can and should use force.Finnemore looks at three types of intervention: collecting debts, addressing humanitarian crises, and acting against states perceived as threats to international peace. In all three, she finds that what is now considered "obvious" was vigorously contested or even rejected by people in earlier periods for well-articulated and logical reasons. A broad historical perspective allows her to explicate long-term trends: the steady erosion of force's normative value in international politics, the growing influence of equality norms in many aspects of global political life, and the increasing importance of law in intervention practices.