Venice's Most Loyal City : Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia / Stephen D. Bowd.
Bowd, Stephen D., author.
2010
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Title Venice's Most Loyal City : Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia / Stephen D. Bowd.
Author Bowd, Stephen D., author.
ISBN 9780674060562
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674060562
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (374 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674060562 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 945/.26105
Summary 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 communal politics and the communal identities of the subject cities of the new territorial states. Bowd's study is an important corrective to this argument. Based on extensive archival research in Brescia and Venice, Venice's Most Loyal City explores the creation of a civic identity based on local politics, religion, and ritual. Communal identity flourished in Brescia in ways that reveal the strength of local autonomy and the limits of state building in the triumphal age for Venice. It is especially sophisticated in the analysis of the treatment of Brescia's Jews and alleged witches. By employing the most recent methods of historical analysis derived from ritual and religious studies, Bowd manages to return to an older conception of Renaissance Italy that has been eclipsed in recent years.
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Series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
In HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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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

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