Venice Reconsidered offers 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 present innovative variants of the myth ...
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Venice Reconsidered offers 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 present innovative variants of the myth of Venice-that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.
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Add this copy of Venice Reconsidered: the History and Civilization of an to cart. $38.47, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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VG-(Slight soiling around page edges) Maroon illus. wraps; 538 pp.; Numerous bw figures. Divided into 4 sections: The Setting, Politics and Culture, Society and Culture, After the Fall; Includes writings by various authors, including "Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice" by Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, "Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice After Agnadello" by Edward Muir, "'A Plot Discover'd? ' Myth, Legend, and the 'Spanish' Conspiracy against Venice in 1618" by Richard Mackenney, "Behind the Walls: The Material Culture of Venetian Elites" by Patricia Fortini Brown, "Slave Redemption in Venice, 1585-1797" by Robert C. Davis, and more.
Add this copy of Venice Reconsidered: the History and Civilization of an to cart. $59.00, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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