Venice Reconsidered

Contents:
PrefaceList of ContributorsReconsidering Venice
John Martin and Dennis Romano Part I. The Setting1 Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice
Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan Part II. Politics and Culture2 The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian Society, 1286–1323
Gerhard Rösch3 Hard Times and Ducal Radiance: Andrea Dandolo and the Construction of the Ruler in Fourteenth-Century Venice
Debra Pincus4 Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice after Agnadello
Edward Muir5 Confronting New Realities: Venice and the Peace of Bologna, 1530
Elisabeth G. Gleason6 ""A Plot Discover'd?""Myth, Legend, and the ""Spanish""Conspiracy against Venice in 1618
Richard Mackenney7 Opera, Festivity, and Spectacle in ""Revolutionary""Venice: Phantasms of Time and History
Martha Feldman Part III. Society and Culture8 Identity and Ideology in Renaissance Venice: The Third Serrata
Stanley Chojnacki9 Behind the Walls: The Material Culture of Venetian Elites
Patricia Fortini Brown10 Elite Citizens
James S. Grubb11 Veronese's High Altarpiece for San Sebastiano: A Patrician Commissionfor Counter Reformation Church
Peter Humfrey12 Early Modern Venice as a Center of Information and Communication
Peter Burke13 Toward a Social History of Women in Venice: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Federica Ambrosini14 Slave Redemption in Venice, 1585–1797
Robert C. Davis Part IV. After the Fall15 The Creation of Venetian Historiography
Claudio Povolo
Index

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