1st Edition
Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic Political Conflict and Social Contestation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Venice
Introduction
Maartje van Gelder and Claire Judde de Larivière
Chapter 1. Popular protest and alternative visions of the Venetian polity, c.1260 to 1423
Dennis Romano
Chapter 2. Memorializing conspiracy and unrest. Venetian historical writing at the turn of the sixteenth century
Monique O’Connell
Chapter 3. Political participation and ordinary politicization in Renaissance Venice. Was the popolo a political actor?
Claire Judde de Larivière
Chapter 4. Popular heresies and dreams of political transformation in sixteenth-century Venice
John Jeffries Martin
Chapter 5. Spaces of unrest? Policing hospitality sites in early modern Venice
Rosa Salzberg
Chapter 6. Protest in the Piazza: contested space in early modern Venice
Maartje van Gelder
Chapter 7. Female agency, subjectivity, and disorder in early modern Venice
Joanne M. Ferraro
Chapter 8. Tensions and compromises in the republican system of justice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice
Cristina Setti
Chapter 9. Boatmen, fishermen, and Venetian institutions: from negotiation to confrontation
Robin Quillien and Solène Rivoal
Chapter 10. Conflicts, social unease, and protests in the world of the Venetian guilds (sixteenth to eighteenth century)
Andrea Zannini
Afterword
Edward Muir
Biography
Maartje van Gelder is Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Amsterdam. Recent publications include a co-edited volume on Cross-Cultural Diplomacy and Diplomatic Intermediaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2015) and 'The People’s Prince: Popular Politics in Early Modern Venice', The Journal of Modern History 90.2 (2018): 249–291.
Claire Judde de Larivière is Senior Lecturer in medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Toulouse, and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She has recently published The Revolt of Snowballs: Murano Confronts Venice, 1511 (trans. Thomas V. Cohen, 2018).
