CONTENTS
List of Maps and Figures .............................................................................. ix
Contributors ..................................................................................................... xiii
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ xxi
Introduction: A Brief Survey of Histories of Venice ............................. 1
Eric R. Dursteler
Venice and Its Surroundings ....................................................................... 25
Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
Politics and Constitution .............................................................................. 47
Alfredo Viggiano
The Terraferma State ..................................................................................... 85
Michael Knapton
Venice’s Maritime Empire in the Early Modern Period ..................... 125
Benjamin Arbel
The Venetian Economy ................................................................................. 255
Luciano Pezzolo
Industry and Production in the Venetian Terraferma
(15th–18th Centuries) ............................................................................... 291
Edoardo Demo
Family and Society
Anna Bellavitis ............................................................................................. 319
Society and the Sexes in the Venetian Republic ................................... 353
Anne Jacobson Schutte
Religious Life
Cecilia Cristellon and Silvana Seidel Menchi ....................................... 379