Describing the City, Describing the State
Title | Describing the City, Describing the State PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Toffolo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2020-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004428208 |
A detailed analysis of descriptions of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when both the city of Venice and the mainland state were undergoing fundamental changes.
Describing the City, Describing the State
Title | Describing the City, Describing the State PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Toffolo |
Publisher | Studies in Medieval and Reform |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004415904 |
" 'In Describing the City, Describing the State' Sandra Toffolo presents a comprehensive analysis of descriptions of the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when the Venetian mainland state was being created. Focusing on an extensive variety of descriptions, the book demonstrates that no one narrative of Venice prevailed in the early modern European imagination, and that authors continuously adapted geographical descriptions to changing political circumstances. In doing so, it shows the importance of studying geographical representation and early modern state formation together. Moreover, it challenges the long-standing concept of the myth of Venice, by showing that Renaissance observers never saw the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in a monolithic way"--
Indiana Forms for Pleading and Practice in Civil and Criminal Actions, Probate Matters and in Commissioners' Courts, Thoroughly Annotated
Title | Indiana Forms for Pleading and Practice in Civil and Criminal Actions, Probate Matters and in Commissioners' Courts, Thoroughly Annotated PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wesley Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1418 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Civil procedure |
ISBN |
The Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, 1889
Title | The Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, 1889 PDF eBook |
Author | Missouri |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1232 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Forms (Law) |
ISBN |
Municipal Record
Title | Municipal Record PDF eBook |
Author | San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | City planning |
ISBN |
Modern HISTORY: OR, THE Present State OF All NATIONS. DESCRIBING Their Respective Situations, Persons, Habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry, Plants, Animals and Minerals
Title | Modern HISTORY: OR, THE Present State OF All NATIONS. DESCRIBING Their Respective Situations, Persons, Habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry, Plants, Animals and Minerals PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Salmon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1730 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Laws of the State of Kansas
Title | The Laws of the State of Kansas PDF eBook |
Author | Kansas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |