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Venice as the Polity of Mercy : Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250-c. 1650 /
This study re-examines the political economy of Venice from the point of view of the hundreds of corporations which ordinary people - despite their apparent "exclusion" from political life - organized and ran for themselves. Mercy was central to their Christian values. Those who offered me...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Toronto Italian Studies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study re-examines the political economy of Venice from the point of view of the hundreds of corporations which ordinary people - despite their apparent "exclusion" from political life - organized and ran for themselves. Mercy was central to their Christian values. Those who offered mercy to their brethren - and sisters - in temporary hardship were investing in the expectation of reciprocity in their own time of need. Venice as the Polity of Mercy traces a formative linking of economy, polity, and religion in the thirteenth century, then the expansion and extension of a network of overlapping institutions in the fourteenth and fifteenth. There followed a dislocation during the struggles of Church and State between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-seventeenth, and a revitalizing reconnection of economy and polity in a different religious climate after the plague of 1630. The book offers a picture of circulation and movement rather than of stability and continuity, and a new understanding of the significance of Venice through a reconfiguration of Venetian history and the history of Venetian art. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781442621213 9783110652062 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |