9780252024610 - Medieval and Renaissance Venice (4 resultados)

Cloth. Condición: Very Good Plus. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good Plus. 1st Edition. Very Good Plus, internally clean, solid hard cover First Printing in a complete dust jacket with a somewhat faded spine, readable but with changes to the original colors. The jacket is complete and has no tears.

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in nearly new condition: firm and square, no bumps, no splits. Complete with original dustjacket: sharp and bright, no tears, no chips. Contents tight, crisp and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels just a former owner's bookplate at the endpaper. Looks unread. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. viii + 360 pages, illustrations : 24 cm. For the first time in a generation, leading scholars of medieval and Renaissance Venice join forces to define the current state of the field. Forays into neglected aspects of Venetian studies reveal new insights into coinage and concubinage, the first Jewish ghetto and the Fourth Crusade, and other matters from dowry inflation to state spectacle to cheese. These essays are emblematic of the dynamism that has marked Venetian scholarship over the past half-century, reflecting a shift in the definition of 'history' and 'historiography' from states, military engagements, and economies to prostitutes, brawlers, peasants, and the poor. Contributors bring to this volume impressive experience and expertise in the use of archival material to explore a rich variety of subject matter, interpretations, and methodologies. They draw on both public and private sources - tourist guides, eyewitness reports, government edicts, police records, diary entries, and literary sources in dialect - to articulate a compelling narrative of cultural change in an age of social discipline. Through topics such as "Venice's Hostage Crisis: Diplomatic Efforts to Secure Peace with Byzantium between 1171 and 1184", "The Abbot's Concubine", and "Curfew Time in the Ghetto of Venice", contributors explore diplomatic, economic, and architectural matters, as well as social and cultural trends. Many take interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches, employing innovative methodologies that take Venetian historiography in new directions. Marked by an interweaving of texts and contexts that represents a microcosm of the kind of discussion that continues to animate the discipline, "Medieval and Renaissance Venice" demonstrates the ways in which historiography continuously seeks to make the past vitally present.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Index. ix, 345 pp.