{"product_id":"firstborn-of-venice-9781421431871","title":"Firstborn of Venice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1988. In the decades after 1404, traditionally maritime Venice extended its control over much of northern Italy. Citizens of Vicenza, the first city to come under Venetian rule, proclaimed their city firstborn of Venice and a model for the Venetian Republic's dominions on the terraferma.    In Firstborn of Venice James Grubb tests commonplace attributes of the Renaissance state through a rich case study of society and politics in fifteenth-century Vicenza. Looking at relations between Venetian and local governments and at the location of power in Vicentine society, Grubb reveals the structural limitations of Venetian authority and the mechanisms by which local patricians deflected the claims of the capital. Firstborn of Venice explores issues that are political in the broadest sense: legal institutions and administrative practices, fiscal politics, the consolidation of elites, ecclesiastical management,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrubb's book brings great clarity to the legal and institutional history of Veneto, which has been cluttered with contending models about how such an apparently confused regime functioned.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Making of the Composite State\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Creating the Territorial State\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Definitions of State \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Dominion and Law\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Dominion and Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Privileged Commune, Commune of the Privileged\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Commune and Governor\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Commune and countryside\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Affirmation of the Patriciate \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Consolidation of the Patriciate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Center and Periphery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Pacification and Security \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Fisc and Army\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Piety and Morals\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Appeals and Their Limits\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Reconstructing Local Prerogatives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. The Renaissance Venetian State \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Unity and Particularism\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations \u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408131465559,"sku":"9781421431871","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421431871.jpg?v=1730501699","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/firstborn-of-venice-9781421431871","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}