Venice Reconsidered : The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797.
Martin, John Jeffries.
Venice Reconsidered : The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (559 pages)
Intro -- 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.
Drawing on a variety of disciplines--history, art history, and musicology--these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice--that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.
9780801876448
City-states -- Italy -- Civilization.
Electronic books.
DG675.6.V39 2000
945/.31
Venice Reconsidered : The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (559 pages)
Intro -- 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.
Drawing on a variety of disciplines--history, art history, and musicology--these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice--that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.
9780801876448
City-states -- Italy -- Civilization.
Electronic books.
DG675.6.V39 2000
945/.31