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Venice as the polity of mercy : guilds, confraternities, and the social order, c.1250-c.1650
- Title
- Venice as the polity of mercy : guilds, confraternities, and the social order, c.1250-c.1650 / Richard Mackenney.
- Author
- Mackenney, Richard
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xviii, 471 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This study re-examines the political economy of Venice from the point of view of the hundreds of corporations which ordinary people - despite their apparent 'exclusion' from political life - organized and ran for themselves. Mercy was central to their Christian values. Those who offered mercy to their brethren - and sisters - in temporary hardship were investing in the expectation of reciprocity in their own time of need. 'Venice, Polity of Mercy' traces a formative linking of economy, polity and religion in the thirteenth century, then the expansion and extension of a network of overlapping institutions in the fourteenth and fifteenth. There followed a dislocation during the struggles of Church and State between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-seventeenth, and a revitalizing reconnection of economy and polity in a different religious climate after the plague of 1630. The book offers a picture of circulation and movement rather than of stability and continuity, and a new understanding of the significance of Venice through a reconfiguration of Venetian history and the history of Venetian art.
- Series Statement
- Toronto Italian studies.
- Uniform Title
- Toronto Italian studies
- Subject
- To 1797
- Guilds > Italy > Venice > History
- Confraternities > Italy > Venice > History
- Confraternities
- Economic history
- Guilds
- Politics and government
- Barmherzigkeit
- Bruderschaft
- Fürsorge
- Sozialgeschichte
- Zunft
- Venice (Italy) > Economic conditions > To 1797
- Venice (Italy) > Politics and government
- Venice (Italy) > Religious life and customs
- Italy > Venice
- Venedig
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-458) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Economy, polity, and religion, c. 1250-c. 1650 -- Venice as mercantile system, c. 1250-c. 1300 -- Proliferation and punctuation, c. 1300-c. 1500 -- Who were the Venetians, c. 1500-c. 1600? -- Officers and office in the mercers' guild, c. 1450-c. 1600 -- Monuments to mercy, c. 1500-c. 1600 -- The Venetians and the confessional state, c. 1550-c. 1600 -- Conclusion: A final realignment of economy, polity, and religion? c. 1600-c. 1700.
- ISBN
- 9781442649682
- 1442649682
- OCLC
- on1080217865
- 1080217865
- SCSB-9277875
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library