Venice's most loyal city [electronic resource] : civic identity in Renaissance Brescia / Stephen D. Bowd.
Series: I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance historyPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.Description: xii, 359 p. : ill., mapISBN:- 9780674051201 (alk. paper)
- 0674051203 (alk. paper)
- 9780674060562 (e-book)
- Renaissance -- Italy -- Brescia
- City and town life -- Italy -- Brescia -- History
- Group identity -- Italy -- Brescia -- History
- Political culture -- Italy -- Brescia -- History
- Brescia (Italy) -- Relations -- Italy -- Venice
- Venice (Italy) -- Relations -- Italy -- Brescia
- Brescia (Italy) -- Social life and customs
- Brescia (Italy) -- Politics and government
- Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508
- Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797
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- DG975.B83 B69 2010eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Myth and history. Regional states and civic identity ; The myths of Brescia -- Pt. 2. Politics. Privilege, power, and politics ; Forming an urban oligarchy -- Pt. 3. Religion, ritual, and civic identity. Space, ritual, and identity ; Civic religion and reform ; Puritanism and the social order -- Pt. 4. Cooperation and conflict. A funerary fracas ; Jewish life ; Witches -- Pt. 5. Crisis and recovery. Disloyal Brescia ; Venice and the recovery of power.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.