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Venice's Most Loyal City : Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (375 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674060562
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Venice's Most Loyal CityDDC classification:
  • 945/.26105
LOC classification:
  • DG975
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part One - Myth and History -- 1. Regional States and Civic Identity -- 2. The Myths of Brescia -- Part Two - Politics -- 3. Privilege, Power, and Politics -- 4. Forming an Urban Oligarchy -- Part Three - Religion, Ritual, and Civic Identity -- 5. Space, Ritual, and Identity -- 6. Civic Religion and Reform -- 7. Puritanism and the Social Order -- Part Four - Cooperation and Conflict -- 8. A Funerary Fracas -- 9. Jewish Life -- 10. Witches -- Part Five - Crisis and Recovery -- 11. Disloyal Brescia -- 12. Venice and the Recovery of Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack, economic downturn, and demographic collapse. Despite these trials, Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation, which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part One - Myth and History -- 1. Regional States and Civic Identity -- 2. The Myths of Brescia -- Part Two - Politics -- 3. Privilege, Power, and Politics -- 4. Forming an Urban Oligarchy -- Part Three - Religion, Ritual, and Civic Identity -- 5. Space, Ritual, and Identity -- 6. Civic Religion and Reform -- 7. Puritanism and the Social Order -- Part Four - Cooperation and Conflict -- 8. A Funerary Fracas -- 9. Jewish Life -- 10. Witches -- Part Five - Crisis and Recovery -- 11. Disloyal Brescia -- 12. Venice and the Recovery of Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack, economic downturn, and demographic collapse. Despite these trials, Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation, which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy.

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