Medieval and Renaissance Venice
Published by University of Illinois Press, USA, 1999
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Curtle Mead Books, Cowes, Isle of Wight, IOW, United KingdomCurtle Mead Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 69.03
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A lovely copy. Few photos in Ca'da Mosto chapter only.Back flyleaf has pencil notes by previous owner of dates and pages read. Fully indexed. ix, 345pp. This book includes 13 essays by leading scholars of medieval and Renaissance Venice. These include describing new insights into coinage and concubinage, the first Jewish ghetto, and the Fourth Crusade. Also included are dowry inflation to state spectacle to cheese. All these have used both private and public sources leading to a book which 'articulates a compelling narrative of cultural change in an age of social discipline'. Examples of topics are ' Venice's Hostage Crisis: Diplomatic Efforts to Secure Peace with Byzantium between 1171 and 1184,' ' The Abbot's Concubine,' and 'Curfew time in the Ghetto of Venice.' and in these the contributors explore diplomatic, economic and architectural matters as well as social and cultural trends.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Medieval and Renaissance Venice
- Author
- Ellen E.Kittell and Thomas F. Madden
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press, USA
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- History, Historiography & Military
Curtle Mead Books
Cowes, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
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