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Information and Communication in Venice - Rethinking Early Modern Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Information and Communication in Venice - Rethinking Early Modern Politics (Hardcover, New)
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This is a unique investigation of the political uses of different
forms of communication - oral, manuscript, and printed - in
sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice. De Vivo uses a rich and
diverse range of sources - from council debates to leaks and spies'
reports, from printed pamphlets to graffiti and rumors - to
demonstrate just how closely political communication was
intertwined with the wider social and economic life of the city.
The book also engages with important wider problems, inviting
comparison beyond Venice. For instance, today we take it for
granted that communication and politics influence each other
through spin-doctoring and media power. What, however, was the use
of communication in an age when rulers recognized no political role
for their subjects? And what access to political information did
those excluded from government have?
In answering these questions, de Vivo offers a highly original
reinterpretation of early modern politics that steers a course
between the tendency of the political historian to view events from
the windows of government buildings and the 'history from below' of
social historians. As this account shows, neither perspective is
sufficient in isolation, because even the most secretive oligarchs,
ensconced in the Ducal Palace's most restricted councils, were
constantly preoccupied by their vociferous subjects in the squares
below. Challenging the social and cultural boundaries of more
traditional accounts, the book goes on to show how politics in
early modern Venice extended far beyond the patrician elite to
involve the entire population, from humble clerks and foreign
spies, to notaries, artisans, barbers, and prostitutes.
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