Venices Most Loyal City

Author : Stephen D. Bowd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674051203
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice's Most Loyal City written by Stephen D. Bowd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sandra Toffolo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004428208
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Describing the City, Describing the State written by Sandra Toffolo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed analysis of descriptions of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when both the city of Venice and the mainland state were undergoing fundamental changes.

Author : Luca Zenobi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198876866
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borders and the Politics of Space in Late Medieval Italy written by Luca Zenobi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space matters. It situates our history, structures our daily lives, and often determines what we can and cannot do. Borders are central to this reality. Tools and symbols of separation, power, and identity, they bring people together as much as they set them apart. This book explores how borders were understood, made, and encountered at the end of the Middle Ages, and what they can tell us about the spatial fabric of society at the threshold of modernity. It shows that pre-modern borders were nothing like the fuzzy lines they are typically made out to be, that border-making was rarely a top-down process and should instead be studied as an interactive endeavour, and that space was shaped by communities far more than states in this period. At its core, Borders and the Politics of Space in Late Medieval Italy is the account of a frontier which would mark the Italian peninsula for centuries, that between the territories of the Duchy of Milan and those of the Republic of Venice. But it is also a study of how rulers and subjects alike defined spaces they could call their own. Luca Zenobi combines methods from several disciplines and applies them to a range of evidence from twenty different libraries and archives, including theoretical treatises and pragmatic records, written chronicles and cartographic visualisations, private documents and official correspondence. The cast of characters is equally eclectic, featuring influential thinkers and pragmatic statesmen, zealous factions and clumsy bureaucrats, hopeless beggars and ambitious princes. On the border, their stories intersect and reveal their part in a shared history.

Author : Joseph E. Lowry
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004343296
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought written by Joseph E. Lowry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume, which cover an unusually wide range of topics in the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought, explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and Islamic intellectual life from the beginnings of Islam to the present.

Author : Gasparo Contarini
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487505841
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Venice written by Gasparo Contarini and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli's Renaissance Italy.

Author : Richard MacKenney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442621222
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice as the Polity of Mercy written by Richard MacKenney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study re-examines Venice’s political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people or popolani who, despite the commonly held view that they were excluded from political life by the nobility or nobili, actually organized and ran for themselves hundreds of corporations within the city-state. Mercy was central to this popolani’s Christian values and those who offered mercy to their fellow men and women in temporary hardship were investing in the expectation of reciprocity in their own time of need. Beginning by tracing a formative linking of religion, economy, and polity from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, Venice as the Polity of Mercy then chronicles the collapse of this triad during the struggles between church and state in the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, followed by a revitalizing reconnection of economy and polity within a different religious climate after the plague of 1630. As such, Richard Mackenney’s book offers up a revitalized image of Renaissance Venetian society as dynamic rather than static, as well as a new understanding of the city’s significance through a reconfiguration of its history and artwork.

Author : Kiril Petkov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004259813
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anxieties of a Citizen Class written by Kiril Petkov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Anxieties of a Citizen Class: The Miracles of the True Cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 Kiril Petkov identifies the socio-psychological preoccupations accompanying the formation of the leading commoner group of early Renaissance Venice, the cittadini originarii, as revealed in a cycle of miracles performed by a fragment of the True Cross owned by the brotherhood of San Giovanni Evangelista. The study’s principal contention is that the miracles trace the evolution of the citizen elite from members of a large, fluid group of men of affairs to community managers to state servants. Each miracle highlights a stage of that process and the social anxieties engendered in the acquisition of a specific social identity.

Author : Ali Humayun Akhtar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399519638
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy and the Islamic World written by Ali Humayun Akhtar and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy and the Islamic World tells the story of how Italian cities have been centres of international exchange for centuries, linking Europe with the most storied marketplaces of the Middle East and North Africa. From the Ancient Roman period and the Renaissance to the rise of the Italian Republic, Italy has been a global crossroads for more than two millennia. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of European history, Italy's debates about trade with its southern neighbours evoke an earlier era of encounters - one that sheds light on where the EU is heading today.

Author : Stephen J. Campbell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648159X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Endless Periphery written by Stephen J. Campbell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy’s historical seats of power, some of the era’s most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the diversity of regions and cultures that makes up the country. In Endless Periphery, Stephen J. Campbell examines a range of iconic works in order to unlock a rich series of local references in Renaissance art that include regional rulers, patron saints, and miracles, demonstrating, for example, that the works of Titian spoke to beholders differently in Naples, Brescia, or Milan than in his native Venice. More than a series of regional microhistories, Endless Periphery tracks the geographic mobility of Italian Renaissance art and artists, revealing a series of exchanges between artists and their patrons, as well as the power dynamics that fueled these exchanges. A counter history of one of the greatest epochs of art production, this richly illustrated book will bring new insight to our understanding of classic works of Italian art.

Author : Francis Cotterell Hodgson
Publisher : London : G. Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early History of Venice written by Francis Cotterell Hodgson and published by London : G. Allen. This book was released on 1901 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: