{"product_id":"venice-as-the-polity-of-mercy-guilds-confraternities-and-the-social-order-c-1250-c-1650-hardback-9781442649682","title":"Venice As the Polity of Mercy; Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, C. 1250-c. 1650 (Hardback) 9781442649682","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVenice As the Polity of Mercy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGuilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, C. 1250-c. 1650\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard MacKenny (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442649682\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e496 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.5 x 4.1 cm, 0.88 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mackenney certainly makes his case regarding the activity and agency of subordinate classes long treated as disenfranchised […] as the key to tracing […] inequality. The case is made stronger by his clear mastery of the archives.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto (\u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"This is an important book and repays an effort on the part of the reader. It not only provides much information about guilds and confraternities and other aspects of Venetian social and religious life at the often-neglected level of the \u003ci\u003epopolani\u003c\/i\u003e, but it also demonstrates that exclusion from political office did not prevent them from active engagement in autonomous activities in defense of their interests in the political, social, and religious spheres.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Christine Meek, Trinity College Dublin (\u003cem\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study re-examines Venice\u0026amp;#x2019;s political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people or \u003ci\u003epopolani\u003c\/i\u003e who, despite the commonly held view that they were excluded from political life by the nobility or \u003ci\u003enobili\u003c\/i\u003e, actually organized and ran for themselves hundreds of corporations within the city-state. Mercy was central to this \u003ci\u003epopolani\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;#x2019;s Christian values and those who offered mercy to their fellow men and women in temporary hardship were investing in the expectation of reciprocity in their own time of need. Beginning by tracing a formative linking of religion, economy, and polity from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, \u003ci\u003eVenice as the Polity of Mercy \u003c\/i\u003ethen chronicles the collapse of this triad during the struggles between church and state in the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, followed by a revitalizing reconnection of economy and polity within a different religious climate after the plague of 1630. As such, Richard Mackenney\u0026amp;#x2019;s book offers up a revitalized image of Renaissance Venetian society as dynamic rather than static, as well as a new understanding of the city\u0026amp;#x2019;s significance through a reconfiguration of its history and artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables and Appendices\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Economy, Polity, and Religion, c. 1250–c. 1650\u003cbr\u003eThe Venetian Popolo: Anonymous or Autonomous?\u003cbr\u003eThe Spectrum of Representation\u003cbr\u003eThe Sources and Their Scope\u003cbr\u003eThe Stones of Venice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Venice as Mercantile System, c. 1250–c. 1300\u003cbr\u003ePolity, 1297\u003cbr\u003ePolity, 1268\u003cbr\u003eEconomy, 1271\u003cbr\u003eReligion, 1247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Proliferation and Punctuation, c. 1300–c. 1500\u003cbr\u003eThe Confraternities of Venice\u003cbr\u003eBefore the Black Death, 1300–48\u003cbr\u003eThe Impact of the Plague\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Black Death to the Bianchi, 1348–99\u003cbr\u003eThe Bianchi, 1399\u003cbr\u003eThe Franciscan Revival and Social Change, c. 1400–c. 1450\u003cbr\u003ePlague and Patronage, c. 1450–c. 1500 \u003cbr\u003eThe Vision of the Polity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Who Were the Venetians, c. 1500–c. 1600?\u003cbr\u003eMetropolis and Cosmopolis\u003cbr\u003eRooms at the Inns, 1530–1\u003cbr\u003eL\u0026amp;#x2019;arte dei fabbri\u003cbr\u003eStrands of Identity\u003cbr\u003e\"Quel ramo del lago di Como\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Tale of \"Il Medeghino\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Officers and Office in the Mercers\u0026amp;#x2019; Guild, c. 1450–c. 1600\u003cbr\u003eA Little Republic?\u003cbr\u003eArte dei marzeri and Scuola di San Teodoro\u003cbr\u003eOfficers and Members\u003cbr\u003eOligarchs or Plutocrats? A Test Case\u003cbr\u003eOfficial Business\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Monuments to Mercy, c. 1500–c. 1600\u003cbr\u003eArti and Scuole in the Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eThe Scuole del Venerabile\u003cbr\u003eThe Sovvegni\u003cbr\u003eThe Scuole and the Stones of Venice\u003cbr\u003eThe Wider Network\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Venetians and the Confessional State, c. 1550–c. 1600\u003cbr\u003eThe Autonomy of the Venetian Laity\u003cbr\u003eThe Agencies of the Confessional State\u003cbr\u003eThe Inquisition and the Venetian Laity\u003cbr\u003eThe Visitation of 1581\u003cbr\u003eVenice and the Defence of Political Absolutism\u003cbr\u003eTintoretto and the Last Fight\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: A Final Realignment of Economy, Polity, and Religion? c. 1600–c. 1700\u003cbr\u003eMorbidity in an Age of Decline: The Suffragi\u003cbr\u003eFamily Ties\u003cbr\u003eAn Envoi: Decadence or Shift?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaps\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681284354328,"sku":"9781442649682","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/venice-as-the-polity-of-mercy-guilds-confraternities-and-the-social-order-c-1250-c-1650-hardback-9781442649682","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}