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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454799903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8018-7644-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinJohn Jeffries <1951->

RomanoDennis <1951->

Disciplina

945/.31

Soggetti

City-states - Italy - Civilization

Electronic books.

Venice (Italy) Civilization To 1797

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

Contents; Preface; Contributors; Reconsidering Venice; PART I The Setting; 1 Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice; PART II Politics and Culture; 2 The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian Society, 1286-1323; 3 Hard Times and Ducal Radiance Andrea Dandolo and the Construction of the Ruler in Fourteenth-Century Venice; 4 Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice after Agnadello; 5 Confronting New Realities Venice and the Peace of Bologna, 1530; 6 ''A Plot Discover'd?'' Myth, Legend, and the ''Spanish'' Conspiracy against Venice in 1618

7 Opera, Festivity, and Spectacle in ''Revolutionary'' VenicePART III Society and Culture; 8 Identity and Ideology in Renaissance Venice; 9 Behind the Walls The Material Culture of Venetian Elites; 10 Elite Citizens; 11 Veronese's High Altarpiece for San Sebastiano; 12 Early Modern Venice as a Center of Information and Communication; 13 Toward a Social History of Women in Venice; 14 Slave Redemption in Venice, 1585-1797; PART IV After the Fall; 15 The Creation of Venetian Historiography; Index