London: Faber and Faber, 2011. — 405 p. — ISBN 978–0–571–27923–4. A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded...
BRILL, 2013. — xxii+970 p. — ISBN: 9004252517 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,...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. — 310 p. Historian Eric R. Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this...
Zagreb, 2009. — 297 p. Epistolae et communicationes rectorum Dalmatiae et Albaniae Venetae / Pisma i poruke rektora Dalmacije i Mletačke Albanije naslov je serije u kojoj će se u sastavu edicije "Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium" u više zasebnih knjiga sustavno objavljivati arhivski spisi iz Državnog arhiva u Mlecima (Archivio di Stato di Venezia) koji se...
Zagreb, 2012. — 301 p. U ovome, drugom, svesku priređeni su istovrsni spisi predstavnika mletačke vlasti u dalmatinskim gradovima, odnosno komunama, Korčuli, Braču, Omišu, Makarskoj i Klisu. Riječ je o područjima koja su tijekom povijesti imala različitu sudbinu i nejednake etape uključenosti u sastav mletačkih prekomorskih stečevina te će se ta činjenica u nemaloj mjeri...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 240 p. Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 433 p. Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early modern capitalism in general and the transformation of the Mediterranean, Maria Fusaro presents a new perspective on the onset of Venetian decline. Examining the significant commercial relationship between these two European empires during...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. — 707 p. 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...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 490 p. This study re-examines Venice's political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people orpopolani who, despite the commonly held view that they were excluded from political life by the nobility ornobili, actually organized and ran for themselves hundreds of corporations within the city-state. Mercy was central to thispopolani's...
Viking Adult, 2012. — 374 p. An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur. Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an...
Viking Adult, 2012. — 374 p. An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur. Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an...
Viking Adult, 2012. — 374 p. An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur. Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 320 p. Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on medieval Venice, Thomas F. Madden traces the city-state's extraordinary rise through...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 544 p. — ISBN: 9780521248426 This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost of armies. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby only...
The John Hopkins University, 2002. — 561 p. Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume...
University of Chicago Press, 1974. — 334 p. In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081–1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores...
Vintage, 1989. — 673 p. Traces the rise of great trade Venetian Empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand year-old Republic. 32 p. of black and white photos, 4 maps and charts.
Little Brown Book Group, 2017. — 432 p. Henry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it, whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly...
The John Hopkins University Press, 2009. — 264 p. The city-state of Venice, with a population of less than 100,000, dominated a fragmented and fragile empire at the boundary between East and West, between Latin Christian, Greek Orthodox, and Muslim worlds. In this institutional and administrative history, Monique O'Connell explains the structures, processes, practices, and laws...
Plon, 2004. « Venise, elle, est la ville chérubinique par excellence : contemplation et compréhension du lointain, regard sans fin ramené sur soi après avoir bouclé la boucle, récollection et concentration des randonnées de la connaissance. C’est le visage dans la pierre voyant le temps dans ses fibres. Les franciscains séraphiques sont là aussi, bien sûr, mais Venise, comme...
Pegasus, 2013. — 368 p. A colorful new history of Venice that illuminates the character of the great city-state by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history — Petrarch, Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, and Casanova. The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After...
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