{"product_id":"a-companion-to-venetian-history-1400-1797-9789004252516","title":"A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps and Figures ... ix Contributors ... xiii Acknowledgements ... xxi  Introduction: A Brief Survey of Histories of Venice ... 1   Eric R. Dursteler Venice and Its Surroundings ... 25   Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan Politics and Constitution ... 47   Alfredo Viggiano The Terraferma State ... 85   Michael Knapton Venice’s Maritime Empire in the Early Modern Period ... 125   Benjamin Arbel The Venetian Economy ... 255   Luciano Pezzolo Industry and Production in the Venetian Terraferma (15th–18th Centuries) ... 291   Edoardo Demo Family and Society   Anna Bellavitis ... 319 Society and the Sexes in the Venetian Republic ... 353   Anne Jacobson Schutte Religious Life   Cecilia Cristellon and Silvana Seidel Menchi ... 379 Charity and Confraternities ... 421   David D’Andrea Venice and its Minorities ... 449   Benjamin Ravid The Anthropology of Venice ... 487   Edward Muir Liturgies of Violence: Social Control and Power Relationships in the Republic of Venice between the 16th and 18th Centuries ... 513   Claudio Povolo Wayfarers in Wonderland: The Sexual Worlds of Renaissance Venice Revisited ... 543   Guido Ruggiero The Venetian Intellectual World ... 571   Margaret L. King Venetian Literature and Publishing ... 615   Linda L. Carroll Book Publishing and the Circulation of Information ... 651   Mario Infelise Education in the Republic of Venice ... 675   Paul F. Grendler Science and Medicine in Early Modern Venice ... 701   William Eamon Venetian Architecture ... 743   Deborah Howard Art in Venice, 1400–1600 ... 779   Wolfgang Wolters Venetian Art, 1600–1797 ... 811   Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, and Dulcia Meijers Music in Venice: A Historigraphical Overview ... 865   Jonathan Glixon Clothing, Fashion, Dress, and Costume in Venice (c.1450–1650) ... 889   Margaret F. Rosenthal Venetian Language ... 929   Ronnie Ferguson  Appendix One: Venetian Doges 1400–1797 ... 959 Appendix Two: Patriarchs of Grado 1400–1451 and Patriarchs of Venice 1451–1800 ... 960 Index ... 961","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210638418263,"sku":"9789004252516","price":316.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-venetian-history-1400-1797-9789004252516","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}