Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Venice"
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At the Origins of Welfare Policy: Law and the Economy in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (1150-1350)
(2014-10-21)This dissertation is an economic and institutional history of the first comprehensive public health and welfare system in the Western world. Based on previously unexamined archival and archaeological evidence from several ... -
Mobility, Diplomacy, and Musical Exchange between England and Venice, 1600-1660
(2021-05-14)Political histories of early modern diplomacy have traditionally avoided discussing the arts, focusing instead on the more bureaucratic concerns of government agents. And though Italian influence is a central theme in ... -
Venice's Colonial Jews: Community, Identity, and Justice in Late Medieval Venetian Crete
(2014-06-06)This dissertation offers a social history of the Jews of Candia, Venetian Crete's capital, by investigating how these Jews related to their colonial sovereign, their Latin and Greek Christian neighbors, and their diverse ...