Venice's Most Loyal City : Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia /
For the past generation, most historical work on the Italian Renaissance has been devoted to the ways in which city states such as Venice transformed their captured territories into a regional state during the fifteenth century. The territorial state approach de-emphasizes the persistence of communa...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2010]
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Colección: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE. Myth and History
- 1. Regional States and Civic Identity
- 2. The Myths of Brescia
- PART TWO. Politics
- 3. Privilege, Power, and Politics
- 4. Forming an Urban Oligarchy
- PART THREE. Religion, Ritual, and Civic Identity
- 5. Space, Ritual, and Identity
- 6. Civic Religion and Reform
- 7. Puritanism and the Social Order
- PART FOUR. Cooperation and Conflict
- 8. A Funerary Fracas
- 9. Jewish Life
- 10. Witches
- PART FIVE. Crisis and Recovery
- 11. Disloyal Brescia
- 12. Venice and the Recovery of Power
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index