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The "public" and the "private" in sixteenth-century Venice: from medieval economy to early modern state
Das "Öffentliche" und das "Private" im Venedig des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts: von der mittelalterlichen Ökonomie zum frühmodernen Staat
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Abstract
"This article analyses the Venetian public galleys' expeditions during the sixteenth century, as a case study for understanding the relationships between patricians and the State, and the way in which the 'public' and the 'private' roles were reorganized in the late Middle Ages. Going further the ex... view more
"This article analyses the Venetian public galleys' expeditions during the sixteenth century, as a case study for understanding the relationships between patricians and the State, and the way in which the 'public' and the 'private' roles were reorganized in the late Middle Ages. Going further the explanations usually given, the article tries to explain the decline of the public galleys, and emphasizes the symbolic, cultural, political and ideological factors that had also led to the abandonment of public navigation. It seeks to reintegrate economic considerations, practices, actions and actors into their social, political and ideological contexts, and thus avoids isolating economic phenomena and economic thinking from their political background. Doing so, it argues that the abandonment of public navigation in Venice was the corollary of the gradual differentiation between the state and the ruling class that was typical of the earliest stages of modernity." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Italy; modernization; national state; middle ages; sixteenth century; the public; privacy; ruling class; economy; modernity
Classification
General History
Social History, Historical Social Research
Method
historical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 76-94
Journal
Historical Social Research, 37 (2012) 4
Issue topic
The "Économie des Conventions"
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.37.2012.4.76-94
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed