Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice / / Edward Muir.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Muir, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS AND A NOTE ON DATING --; CIVIC RITUAL IN RENAISSANCE VENICE --; INTRODUCTION --; Map: The Ritual Geography of Venice --; PART ONE : MYTH AND RITUAL --; PART TWO: AN INHERITANCE OF LEGEND AND RITUAL --; PART THREE: GOVERNMENT BY RITUAL --; CONCLUSION --; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691201351; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691201351?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edward Muir.

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.