A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including political culture, economy, religion, gender, art, literature, music, and the environment. Each chapter provides a broad but comprehensive historical and historiographical overview of the current state and future directions of research. The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 represents a new point of reference for the next generation of students of early modern Venetian studies, as well as more broadly for scholars working on all aspects of the early modern world. Contributors are Alfredo Viggiano, Benjamin Arbel, Michael Knapton, Claudio Povolo, Luciano Pezzolo, Anna Bellavitis, Anne Schutte, Guido Ruggiero, Benjamin Ravid, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Cecilia Cristellon, David D’Andrea, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Wolfgang Wolters, Dulcia Meijers, Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, Deborah Howard, Linda Carroll, Jonathan Glixon, Paul Grendler, Edward Muir, William Eamon, Edoardo Demo, Margaret King, Mario Infelise, Margaret Rosenthal and Ronnie Ferguson. |
Contents
A Brief Survey of Histories of Venice | 1 |
Venice and Its Surroundings | 25 |
Politics and Constitution | 47 |
The Terraferma State | 85 |
Venices Maritime Empire in the Early Modern Period | 125 |
The Venetian Economy | 255 |
Industry and Production In the Venetian Terraferma 15th18th Centuries | 291 |
Family and Society | 319 |
The Venetian Intellectual World | 571 |
Venetian Literature and Publishing | 615 |
Book Publishing and the Circulation of Information | 651 |
Education in the Republic of Venice | 675 |
Science and Medicine in Early Modern Venice | 701 |
Venetian Architecture | 743 |
Art in Venice 14001600 | 779 |
Venetian Art 16001797 | 811 |
Society and the Sexes in the Venetian Republic | 353 |
Religious Life | 379 |
Charity and Confraternities | 421 |
Venice and its Minorities | 449 |
The Anthropology of Venice | 487 |
Social Control and Power Relationships in the Republic of Venice between the 16th and 18th Centuries | 513 |
The Sexual Worlds of Renaissance Venice Revisited | 543 |
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