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A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 Edited by Eric R Dursteler, Brigham Young University The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the 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. The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 represents a new point of reference for the next generation of students of early modern Venetian studies, as well as more broadly for scholars working on all aspects of the early modern world. Contributors are Alfredo Viggiano, Benjamin Arbel, Michael Knapton, Claudio Povolo, Luciano Pezzolo, Anna Bellavitis, Anne Schutte, Guido Ruggiero, Benjamin Ravid, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Cecilia Cristellon, David D'Andrea, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Wolfgang Wolters, Dulcia Meijers, Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, Deborah Howard, Linda Carroll, Jonathan Glixon, Paul Grendler, Edward Muir, William Eamon, Edoardo Demo, Margaret King, Mario Infelise, Margaret Rosenthal and Ronnie Ferguson. Status: Available ? 125,00 Buy E-Book Volume Editor: Eric Dursteler Subject: History>Art History History>Early Modern History History>Economic History Religious Studies>History of Religion History>Social History ISBN13: 9789004271968 E-ISBN: 9789004252523 Publication Date: September 2014 Copyright Year: 2014 Format: Paperback Publication Type: Book Pages, Illustr.: 992 pp. Imprint: BRILL Language : English More information Editions Biographical noteReadershipTable of contents Biographical note Eric R Dursteler, Ph.D. (2000) Brown University, is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. His publications include Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Readership Graduate students, non-Venetian scholars, undergraduate courses on Venetian history, academic libraries Graduate students, non-Venetian scholars, undergraduate courses on Venetian history, academic libraries Table of contents List 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 1