CfP "People, politics and protests in the Venice, 15th-17th centuries
Amsterdam, 27-28 February 2015
Organisation: Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Claire Judde de Larivière (Toulouse)
For many years, the classical historiography of Venice claimed that the most Serene Republic knew no noble factions, no popular revolts, no uprisings, and no real resistance against patrician authority. Scholars have criticized the so-called myth of Venice, analysing and dismissing it as a rhetorical device used by patricians to promote their institutions: the Venetian government was neither better nor more