Venice, A Maritime Republic

Venice, A Maritime Republic
Author: Frederic Chapin Lane
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1973-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801814600

A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole.

Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy

Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy
Author: Daniela Frigo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2000-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521561891

This 2000 volume was the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states in the early modern period. The various contributions reveal the instruments and forms of foreign relations in the Italian peninsula. They also show a range of different case-studies and models which share the values and political concepts of the cultural context of diplomatic practice in the ancien régime. While Venice, the Papal States, the duchy of Savoy, Florence (later the duchy of Tuscany), Mantua, Modena, and later the kingdom of Naples may be considered minor states in the broader European context, their diplomatic activity was equal to that of the major powers. This reconstruction of their ambassadors, their secretaries, and their ceremonies offers a fascinating interpretation of the political history of early modern Italy.

Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance

Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance
Author: Margaret L King
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400854342

In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of their class and of the city itself. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Trading Conflicts

Trading Conflicts
Author: Georg Christ
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004221999

Based on Mamluk and Venetian sources, this book offers a thorough analysis of the various conflicts arising around Levant trade. It demonstrates how these conflicts more often than not cut across cultural divides in Late Medieval Mamluk Alexandria.

Byzantium and Venice

Byzantium and Venice
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1992-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521428941

This book, the first of this scope to have been published, traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian republic to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, especially after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.

Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty

Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty
Author: William J. Bouwsma
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520329236

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750-1000

Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750-1000
Author: Veronica West-Harling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191069124

The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna, and Venice examines their common Byzantine past, since all three escaped incorporation into the Lombard kingdom in the late 7th and early 8th centuries. By 750, however, Rome and Ravenna's political links with the Byzantine Empire had been irrevocably severed. Thus, did these cities remain socially and culturally heirs of Byzantium? How did their political structures, social organisation, material culture, and identities change? Did they become part of the Western political and ideological framework of Italy? This study identifies and analyses the ways in which each of these cities preserved the structures of the Late Antique social and cultural world; or in which they adapted each and every element available to them to their own needs, at various times and in various ways, to create a new identity based partly on their Roman heritage and partly on their growing integration with the rest of medieval Italy. It tells a story which encompasses the main contemporary narratives, documentary evidence, recent archaeological discoveries, and discussions on art history; it follows the markers of status and identity through titles, names, ethnic groups, liturgy and ritual, foundation myths, representations, symbols, and topographies of power to shed light on a relatively little known area of early medieval Italian history.