04078nam 2200757 a 450 991078985570332120230207214141.00-674-06056-310.4159/9780674060562(CKB)2670000000079321(EBL)3300928(SSID)ssj0000474209(PQKBManifestationID)12190149(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474209(PQKBWorkID)10449834(PQKB)11299715(MiAaPQ)EBC3300928(Au-PeEL)EBL3300928(CaPaEBR)ebr10456096(OCoLC)709591721(DE-B1597)585499(DE-B1597)9780674060562(dli)HEB32239(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000035(OCoLC)1301547286(EXLCZ)99267000000007932120100318d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVenice's most loyal city[electronic resource] civic identity in Renaissance Brescia /Stephen D. BowdCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20101 online resource (374 p.)I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-674-05120-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Pt. 1. Myth and history. Regional states and civic identity ; The myths of Brescia -- Pt. 2. Politics. Privilege, power, and politics ; Forming an urban oligarchy -- Pt. 3. Religion, ritual, and civic identity. Space, ritual, and identity ; Civic religion and reform ; Puritanism and the social order -- Pt. 4. Cooperation and conflict. A funerary fracas ; Jewish life ; Witches -- Pt. 5. Crisis and recovery. Disloyal Brescia ; Venice and the recovery of power.For the past generation, most historical work on the Italian Renaissance has been devoted to the ways in which city states such as Venice transformed their captured territories into a regional state during the fifteenth century. The territorial state approach de-emphasizes the persistence of communal politics and the communal identities of the subject cities of the new territorial states. Bowd’s study is an important corrective to this argument. Based on extensive archival research in Brescia and Venice, Venice’s Most Loyal City explores the creation of a civic identity based on local politics, religion, and ritual. Communal identity flourished in Brescia in ways that reveal the strength of local autonomy and the limits of state building in the triumphal age for Venice. It is especially sophisticated in the analysis of the treatment of Brescia’s Jews and alleged witches. By employing the most recent methods of historical analysis derived from ritual and religious studies, Bowd manages to return to an older conception of Renaissance Italy that has been eclipsed in recent years.I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.RenaissanceItalyBresciaCity and town lifeItalyBresciaHistoryGroup identityItalyBresciaHistoryPolitical cultureItalyBresciaHistoryBrescia (Italy)RelationsItalyVeniceVenice (Italy)RelationsItalyBresciaBrescia (Italy)Social life and customsBrescia (Italy)Politics and governmentVenice (Italy)History697-1508Venice (Italy)History1508-1797RenaissanceCity and town lifeHistory.Group identityHistory.Political cultureHistory.945/.26105Bowd Stephen D957161Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789855703321Venice's most loyal city2168298UNINA