Venice reconsidered : the history and civilization of an Italian city-state, 1297-1797 / / editors, John Martin, Dennis Romano

• Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 538 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 945/.31
• Soggetto topico: City-states - Italy - Civilization
• Soggetto geografico: Venice (Italy) Civilization To 1797
• Altri autori: MartinJohn Jeffries <1951-> RomanoDennis <1951->
• 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'' Venice; PART 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The essays in Venice Reconsidered offer 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 show that fundamental social categories such as nobility and citizenship were continually modified and renegotiated throughout the Republic's history. In particular, the study of women and nonelites complicates the more static images of Venice that once dominated the historiography. New analyses of Venice's rule of the terraferma have profoundly altered current perceptions of the Republic's political history and its legacies to the emerging Italian nation-state. Finally, through explorations of the meanings and functions of art, music, and architecture, these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice -- that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.
• Titolo autorizzato: Venice reconsidered
• ISBN: 0-8018-7644-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827236203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II