Venice Reconsidered

This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is “likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography” ( The Historical Journal ). Venice Reconsidered  offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice’s politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present