Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797 - Couverture rigide

Martin, John Jeffries; Romano, Dennis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801863120 ISBN 13 : 9780801863127

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Synopsis

The essays in this volume offer a portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the 13th century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to efforts which have characterized Venice's politics as strictly republican, the volume presents 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 modifed 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 perceptions of the Republic's politcal history and its legacies to the emerging nation-state. Finally, through explorations of the meanings and functions of art, music and architectue, these essays present variants of the myth of Venice - the nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

John Jeffries Martin is a professor of history at Trinity University, the editor of The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad and co-editor of Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Dennis Romano is associate professor of history at Syracuse University. He is the author of Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801863120
• ISBN 13: 9780801863127
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560
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• Personne responsable: non disponible