The limits of identity : early modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the representation of difference

This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and decapitation bore a...

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Glavni autor: Barzman, Karen-edis (Autor, VerfasserIn)
Format: Knjiga
Jezik:English
Izdano: Leiden ; Boston : Brill , [2017]
Serija:Art and material culture in medieval and Renaissance Europe volume 7
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Online pristup:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Povezana djela:Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Karen-Edis Barzman, The limits of identity. Early modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the representation of difference]
Bilješke autora:by Karen-edis Barzman
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Sažetak:This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and decapitation bore a heavy burden in this regard, given as indices of an arbitrary violence ascribed to Venice's long-time adversary, "the infidel Turk." The book also addresses the recuperation of violence in Venetian discourse about maintaining civic order and waging crusade. Finally, it examines mobile populations operating in the porous limits between Venetian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia and the distinctions they disrupted between "Venetian" and "Turk" until their settlement on state-owned farmland. This occurred in the eighteenth century with the closing of the borderlands, thresholds of difference against which early modern "Venetian-ness" was repeatedly affirmed
Opis:XVII, 315 Seiten, 55 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9004331506
9789004331501