Honour and the culture of male Venetian nobles, c. 1500-1650
vVhy Venice? Venice was a republic in an age of monarchies, a stable political administration in an age of rebellions, a state of rigidly maintained social hierarchies in an age of social change, a political system which lionised liberty but had the most exclusive ruling elite in Western Europe. Its...
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University of Cambridge
1998
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