The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice - Hardcover

Davis, Robert C.

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9780195084030: The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice

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ISBN 10: 0195084039 ISBN 13: 9780195084030

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1994

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This social history explores early-modern Venetian society through the lens of the festive combat which involved all classes, but especially the city's more marginal workers. It employs four different topical approaches: the social geography of Venetian factionalism; the structure of combat itself; the festive world which grew up around the encounters, providing workers with an alternative society of their own; and the response of the Venetian patriciate, government and police to this largely uncontrollable, plebeian entertainment.

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Davis tells a colorful story with verve and acumen, and couches it comfortably in matters of import for the larger social history of pre-modern Europe. (Journal of Social History)

About the Author:

Robert C. Davis is Assistant Professor of Renaissance Italian History at Ohio State University.

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