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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801863120 ISBN 13: 9780801863127

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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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Review:

"John Martin and Dennis Romano make a very persuasive and compelling argument for the radical shift in Venetian historiography, from the strands of myth and anti-myth in traditional scholarship to the contemporary image -- more complex, more nuanced, and more flexible -- developed by the other essays in this volume." -- Gene Brucker, University of California, Berkeley

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0801863120
• ISBN 13: 9780801863127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Martin PhD Professor John Jeffries, Romano PhD Professor Dennis