Venice''s Most Loyal City - Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia

Informationen zum Autor Stephen D. Bowd is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack! economic downturn! and demographic collapse. Despite these trials! Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation! which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy. Zusammenfassung This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack! economic downturn! and demographic collapse. Despite these trials! Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation! which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen D Bowd, Stephen D. Bowd, Bowd Stephen D.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780674051201
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05120-1
• No. of pages: 374
• Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History; I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, Western Europe, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance