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Author:   Richard MacKenny
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9781442649682

ISBN 10:   1442649682
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   09 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures List of Tables and Appendices Acknowledgments Introduction: Economy, Polity, and Religion, c. 1250–c. 1650 The Venetian Popolo: Anonymous or Autonomous? The Spectrum of Representation The Sources and Their Scope The Stones of Venice 1 Venice as Mercantile System, c. 1250–c. 1300 Polity, 1297 Polity, 1268 Economy, 1271 Religion, 1247 2 Proliferation and Punctuation, c. 1300–c. 1500 The Confraternities of Venice Before the Black Death, 1300–48 The Impact of the Plague From the Black Death to the Bianchi, 1348–99 The Bianchi, 1399 The Franciscan Revival and Social Change, c. 1400–c. 1450 Plague and Patronage, c. 1450–c. 1500 The Vision of the Polity 3 Who Were the Venetians, c. 1500–c. 1600? Metropolis and Cosmopolis Rooms at the Inns, 1530–1 L’arte dei fabbri Strands of Identity ""Quel ramo del lago di Como"" The Tale of ""Il Medeghino"" 4 Officers and Office in the Mercers’ Guild, c. 1450–c. 1600 A Little Republic? Arte dei marzeri and Scuola di San Teodoro Officers and Members Oligarchs or Plutocrats? A Test Case Official Business 5 Monuments to Mercy, c. 1500–c. 1600 Arti and Scuole in the Sixteenth Century The Scuole del Venerabile The Sovvegni The Scuole and the Stones of Venice The Wider Network 6 The Venetians and the Confessional State, c. 1550–c. 1600 The Autonomy of the Venetian Laity The Agencies of the Confessional State The Inquisition and the Venetian Laity The Visitation of 1581 Venice and the Defence of Political Absolutism Tintoretto and the Last Fight Conclusion: A Final Realignment of Economy, Polity, and Religion? c. 1600–c. 1700 Morbidity in an Age of Decline: The Suffragi Family Ties An Envoi: Decadence or Shift? Maps List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index"

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Venice as the Polity of Mercy challenges the persistent image of Venice as a patrician dominated, top-down, hierarchical regime. The central question of Venetian history is how to explain its unusual stability and lack of the riots, regime changes, and civil and factional struggles that characterized other Renaissance states. Richard Mackenny offers a new and persuasive answer to that old question by challenging the idea that patricians controlled popular life through strict oversight of popular institutions such as confraternities. - Monique O'Connell, Dept. of History, Wake Forest University Mackenney links his analysis of institutions and behaviour to the physical spaces of the city, showing how political and social relationships were deeply affected by the places where people lived, worked, and worshipped. This is one of the most important and ground-breaking aspects of Venice as the Polity of Mercy. - Alison Smith, Department of History, Wagner College

""Mackenney certainly makes his case regarding the activity and agency of subordinate classes long treated as disenfranchised […] as the key to tracing […] inequality. The case is made stronger by his clear mastery of the archives."" - Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto (University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018) ""This is an important book and repays an effort on the part of the reader. It not only provides much information about guilds and confraternities and other aspects of Venetian social and religious life at the often-neglected level of the popolani, but it also demonstrates that exclusion from political office did not prevent them from active engagement in autonomous activities in defense of their interests in the political, social, and religious spheres."" - Christine Meek, Trinity College Dublin (Sixteenth Century Journal)

Mackenney certainly makes his case regarding the activity and agency of subordinate classes long treated as disenfranchised [...] as the key to tracing [...] inequality. The case is made stronger by his clear mastery of the archives. -- Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto * <em>University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018</em> *

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Richard Mackenney is a professor in the Department of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

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