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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Myth and history. Regional states and civic identity ; The myths of Brescia
- pt. 2. Politics. Privilege, power, and politics ; Forming an urban oligarchy
- pt. 3. Religion, ritual, and civic identity. Space, ritual, and identity ; Civic religion and reform ; Puritanism and the social order
- pt. 4. Cooperation and conflict. A funerary fracas ; Jewish life ; Witches
- pt. 5. Crisis and recovery. Disloyal Brescia ; Venice and the recovery of power.