Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice

by Kathryn Taylor

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information. Venice was at the center of both these developments. The book traces the emergence of a distinctive tradition of ethnographic writing that served as the basis for defining religious and cultural difference in new ways. Taylor draws on a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644533006
• ISBN13: 9781644533000
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 238 Pages