Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
1st Edition
Published on 24. March 2021
256 pages
978-0-691-20135-1 (ISBN)
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Venice's reputation for political stability and a strong, balanced republican government holds a prominent place in European political theory. Edward Muir traces the origins and development of this reputation, paying particular attention to the sixteenth century, when civic ritual in Venice reached its peak. He shows how the ritualization of society and politics was an important reason for Venice's stability. Influenced in part by cultural anthropology, he establishes and applies to Venice a new methodology for the historical study of civic ritual.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and A Note on Dating
- Introduction
- Map: The Ritual Geography of Venice
- Part one : Myth and Ritual
- one : The Myth of Venice
- The Meaning of the Myth
- Historiography of the Myth
- Myth and Reality
- The Myth Abroad
- From Myth to Ritual or from Ritual to Myth?
- Part Two : An Inheritance of Legend and Ritual
- Two : An Escaped Trojan and A Transported Evangelist:Auspicious Beginnings
- The Legends of the Origins of Venice
- The Festive Calendar
- Pax Tibi Marce Evangelista Meus
- Saints Theodore, George, and Nicholas
- Three : A Grateful Pope and A Dowered Bride.-Imperial Prerogatives
- The Donation of Pope Alexander III
- The Marriage of the Sea
- Four : Twelve Wooden Marys and A Fat Thursday: A Serene Society
- The Doge's Annual Visit to Santa Maria Formosa
- Giovedi Grasso and the Carnival Season
- Part Three : Government By Ritual
- Five : A Republic of Processions
- From Theory to Practice
- The Ducal Procession
- Six : The Ritual Occasion
- Annual Observances
- Corpus Christi
- Special Observances
- Seven : The Paradoxical Prince
- The Doge as Primus Inter Pares and as Princeps
- The Funeral and Coronation of the Doge
- The Dogaressa
- Conclusion
- Manuscript Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
