ISBN: 9780801852886 - Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xxvi, 333pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Mnor foxing to page edges. A unique perspective on Venice and Venetian society as the city evolved from a merchant-dominated regime in the 15th century into an aristocratic oligarchy in the 16th. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hard Cover. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original orange cloth gilt in dustwrapper (slight crease to upper flap); pp. xxvi, 334, with illustrations. A fine copy.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location 6-A-11*.

Condition: as new. Baltimore Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xxvi, 333 pp. - In Housecraft and Statecraft historian Dennis Romano examines the realities and significance of domestic service in what was arguably the most important city in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe - Venice. Drawing on a variety of materials, including humanist treatises on household management, books of costumes, civic statutes, census data, contracts, wills, and court records, Romano paints a vivid picture of the conditions of domestic labor, the difficult lives of servants, the worries and concerns of masters, and the ambivalent ways in which masters and servants interacted. He also shows how servants - especially gondoliers - came to be seen more and more as symbols of their masters' status. Housecraft, and Statecraft offers a unique perspective on Venice and Venetian society as the city evolved from a merchant-dominated regime in the fifteenth century into an aristocratic oligarchy in the sixteenth. It traces the growth, within the elite, of a new sense of hierarchy and honor. At the same time, it illuminates the strategies that servants developed to resist the ever more powerful elite and, in so doing, demonstrates the centrality of domestic servants in the struggles between rich and poor in early modern Europe. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780801852886. Keywords : HISTORY.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Fine Condition. 332 pages. 38 black and white illustrations throughout. List of Plates and Tables. Bibliography. Book.

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Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. First Edition. 8vo. original green backed black cloth gilt (a little rubbed & marked); pp. xxxii (last blank), 378, with illustrations. A very good copy.