Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, C. 1250-C. 1650

by Richard Mackenny and Richard Mackenney

This study re-examines Venice's political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people or popolani who, despite the commonly held view that they were excluded from political life by the nobility or nobili, actually organized and ran for themselves hundreds of corporations within the city-state. Mercy was central to this popolani's Christian values and those who offered mercy to their fellow men and women in temporary hardship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442649682
• ISBN13: 9781442649682
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"