The Revolt of Snowballs: Murano Confronts Venice, 1511

ISBN-13: 9781032095219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

Claire Judde de Larivière

Opis

The Revolt of Snowballs unpicks a rare and turbulent event which occured in 1511 and investigates the meaning behind it. By putting Murano under the microscope, The Revolt of Snowballs provides a window into the cultural and political world of early modern Italy, and is essential reading for historians of revolt and microhistor

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1. The Island of Murano; Chapter 2. Murano’s Political Community and Venice; Chapter 3. A Tottering Ritual; Chapter 4. The Revolt in its Time; Chapter 5. The Sense of Justice; Chapter 6. The Accused; Chapter 7. Political Actions, Political Intentions; Chapter 8. The Trial. A Test of Truth and Persons; Conclusion

O autorze

Claire Judde de Larivière is Senior Lecturer at the University of Toulouse and honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Her previous works include Naviguer, commercer, gouverner. Économie maritime et pouvoirs à Venise (XV^e-XVI^e siècles), 2008; "‘Le peuple est la cité’. L’idée de popolo et la condition des popolani à Venise (XV^e-XVI^e siècle)", Annales HSS, 2013/4 (with Rosa M. Salzberg); and, ‘The Urban Culture of the Ordinary People. Space and Identity in Renaissance Venice (fifteenth-sixteenth Centuries)’, Medieval Urban Culture, ed. by Andrew Brown and Jan Dumolyn, Turnhout, 2017.