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With a special focus on the spatial, architectural, and artistic elements of the marketplace, Romano adds new dimensions to our understanding of the evolution of the market economy and the origins of commercial capitalism and Renaissance individualism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49708174475537,"sku":"CIN0300169078G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52085482750225,"sku":"CIN0300169078VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300169078.jpg?v=1750695123"},{"product_id":"housecraft-and-statecraft-book-dennis-romano-9780801852886","title":"Housecraft and Statecraft","description":"Unlike modern households, those of late medieval and early modern European societies included many individuals not related by blood or marriage. Prominent among these were domestic servants, members of the lower classes whose duties ranged from managing of the household to raising the children. Within the confines of the household, the powerful and powerless came together in complex and significant ways. In this volume, the author examines the realities and significance of domestic service in what was arguably the most important city in 15th- and 16th-century Europe - Venice. Drawing on a variety of materials, including humanist treatises on household management, books of costumes, civic statutes, census data, contracts, wills and court records, Romano paints a vivid picture of the conditions of domestic labour, the difficult lives of servants, the worries and concerns of masters and the ambivalent ways in which masters and servants interacted. He also shows how servants - especially gondoliers - came to be seen more and more as symbols of their masters' status. This study offers a perspectice on Venice and Venetian society as the city evolved from a merchant-dominated regime in the 15th century into an aristocratic oligarchy in the 16th. It traces the growth, within the elite, of a new sense of hierarchy and honour. At the same time, it illuminates the strategies that servants developed to resist the ever more powerful elite and, in doing so, demonstrates the centrality of domestic servants in the struggles between rich and poor in early modern Europe.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50477885161745,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50477885391121,"sku":"GOR013794252","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801852889.jpg?v=1750945998"},{"product_id":"likeness-of-venice-book-dennis-romano-9780300112023","title":"The Likeness of Venice","description":"Immortalized in later centuries in works by Lord Byron, Giuseppe Verdi, Eugène Delacroix, and others, Francesco Foscari reigned as the powerful doge of Venice during tumultuous years from 1423 to 1457. The stuff of legends, his life was marked by political conflict, vengeful enemies, family heartbreak, and, at the end, the forced relinquishment of the ducal throne. Yet Foscari left behind no personal papers, and until now, no complete biography of him has been written. This book, a thorough and fascinating biography, fills that longstanding gap, illuminating not only the life of the man but also the history and culture of fifteenth-century Venice. Dennis Romano reconstructs Foscari’s life through careful reading of extant governmental records and chronicle sources. He also uses architectural monuments built by Foscari and his heirs as critical interpretive keys for unlocking the personality and policies of the doge. Romano analyzes how art and power intersected in Renaissance Italy and how the doge came to represent and even embody the state. With this biography, Romano clears away longstanding myths, fills in previously unknown details about Foscari’s triumphs and ordeals, and allows to emerge the first intimate portrait of this singular doge.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50726789742865,"sku":"GOR002778030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53246078386449,"sku":"GOR014829059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53519539241233,"sku":"GOR013046259","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300112025.jpg?v=1750876436"},{"product_id":"patricians-and-popolani-book-dennis-romano-9781421431451","title":"Patricians and Popolani","description":"Originally published in 1987. 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In separate chapters, Patricians and Popolani examines the forms of association in everyday Venetian life: marriage and family structure; artisan workshops and relations among tradesmen; the role of the parish clergy and the \"sacred networks\" that formed around convents, hospitals, and confraternities; and neighborhood and patron–client ties. By the beginning of the fifteenth century, Romano argues, all these networks of association had been transformed as a new hierarchical spirit took hold and overwhelmed the older, more freewheeling tendencies of Venetian society. The old sense of community yielded to a new and equally compelling sense of place, and La Serenissima remained stable throughout the later Renaissance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51025276076305,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51025278730513,"sku":"NIN9781421431451","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52532741669137,"sku":"NLS9781421431451","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1421431459.jpg?v=1750890544"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-dennis-romano.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}