Venice's most loyal city
Subtitle: civic identity in Renaissance Brescia
By: Stephen D. Bowd
Series: I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history; I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780674051201
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Political culture; Relations; Renaissance; Group identity; City and town life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Myth and history.  Regional states and civic identity ; The myths of Brescia; title: Pt. 2. Politics.  Privilege, power, and politics ; Forming an urban oligarchy; title: Pt. 3. Religion, ritual, and civic identity.  Space, ritual, and identity ; Civic religion and reform ; Puritanism and the social order; title: Pt. 4. Cooperation and conflict.  A funerary fracas ; Jewish life ; Witches; title: Pt. 5. Crisis and recovery.  Disloyal Brescia ; Venice and the recovery of power.