Union in Separation

Union in Separation
Author: Autori Vari
Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2016-01-14T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: History
ISBN: 8867285130

Union in Separation presents a series of case studies on diasporic groups in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. It explores how Armenian, Byzantine/Greek, Florentine, Genoese, Hospitaller, Jewish, Mamluk, and Venetian communities characterized by diasporic identities and inserted into local contexts navigated religious and socio-ethnic boundaries as well as other categories of difference. The volume draws on a wide range of historical and social-scientific methods and offers new perspectives on the arbitration of difference in the wider eastern Mediterranean from Tana to Cairo and Marseille to Isfahan prior to the emergence of nation states. It provides not only an analytical toolbox for historical diaspora studies but also reveals how, under the looming threat of crusade and within the daily routines of trade, diasporic groups and their hosts negotiated modes of coexistence that oscillated between cooperation and conflict, integration and rejection, union and separation.

Venetian Colour

Venetian Colour
Author: Paul Hills
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300081359

Discusses the relation of Venetian color to social, cultural, and environmental factors

Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe

Wage Labor and Guilds in Medieval Europe
Author: Steven A. Epstein
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807844984

Epstein takes a fresh look at the organization of labor in medieval towns and emphasizes the predominance of a wage system within them. He offers illuminating comment on a wide range of subjects_on guilds and guild organization, on women and Jews in the work force, on the value given labor, and on the sources of disaffection. His book presents a feast of themes in medieval social history. David Herlihy, Brown University

Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice

Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice
Author: Frederic Chapin Lane
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421436094

Originally published in 1985. Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller, in the first volume of Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, discuss Venice's economic achievement in terms of the complex system the city's inhabitants developed to manage moneys of account and coins. Money merchants of Venice developed a system whereby a premium attached to moneys of account acted as a stabilizing force and allowed merchants to engage in long-term trade. This system, according to the authors, helped establish Venice as a dominant city-state in international trade and exchange. This book outlines the development and success of this system through 1508. At the time it was first published, this book made a significant contribution to the history of money and economics by underscoring the large role that Venice played in the economic history of the West and the ascendance of capitalism as a structuring force of society.

Myths of Renaissance Individualism

Myths of Renaissance Individualism
Author: J. Martin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2016-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230535755

The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity. Myths of Renaissance Individualism , in short, will interest students not only of history but also of art history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology and religion.