The limits of identity : early modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the representation of difference / by Karen-edis Barzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barzman, Karen-edis, author.

Series:

Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; v. 7.

Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Venice.

Relations.

Beheading.

History.

Difference (Philosophy).

Social aspects.

Group identity.

Venice (Italy)--Relations--Turkey.

Venice (Italy).

Turkey--Relations--Italy--Venice.

Turkey.

Venice (Italy)--Social conditions--To 1797.

Group identity--Italy--Venice--History.

Difference (Philosophy)--Social aspects--Italy--Venice--History.

Beheading--Italy--Venice--History--Sources.

Beheading in literature.

Beheading in art.

Dalmatia (Croatia)--Relations--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dalmatia (Croatia).

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Relations--Croatia--Dalmatia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Croatia.

Croatia--Dalmatia.

Italy--Venice.

Italy.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

XVII, 315 pagina's, 52 platen : ǂb illustraties ; ǂc 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

"This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and decapitation bore a heavy burden in this regard, given as indices of an arbitrary violence ascribed to Venice's long-time adversary, 'the infidel Turk.' The book also addresses the recuperation of violence in Venetian discourse about maintaining civic order and waging crusade. Finally, it examines mobile populations operating in the porous limits between Venetian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia and the distinctions they disrupted between 'Venetian' and 'Turk' until their settlement on state-owned land. This occurred in the eighteenth century with the closing of the borderlands, thresholds of difference against which early modern 'Venetian-ness' was repeatedly measured and affirmed"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"A diabolical violence" and "authority above the law" : Ottoman rule in Venetian public discourse

Justice and iniquity : decapitation's double valence in early modern Venice

Judith triumphant : severed heads on public monuments and in celebrations of Venetian victory

Severed heads and bodies in pieces : Venetian reception of Jerusalem liberated

Provincial subjectivity and the troubling of difference : the Morlacchi in Venetian text and image.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-294) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Barzman, Karen-edis, author. Limits of identity

ISBN:

9789004331501

9004331506

OCLC:

961008428

Publisher Number:

99972582189