Site Visit

• The Ghetto 

Seminar Questions

• ‘In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice social rank was more important than gender’. Discuss.
• Why did government policies towards minority communities in Venice change between c. 1350 and c. 1650?

Core Reading

You should each read three of the following items:

• Chambers, David, and Brian Pullan (eds), Venice: A Documentary History 1450-1630 (Oxford, 1992; rept. Toronto, 2001), pp. 242-94, 323-52.
• EITHER
  • Bellavitis, Anna, 'Family and SocietyLink opens in a new window', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797 (Leiden, 2013), pp. 319-52.
  • OR Schutte, Anne Jacobson, 'Society and the Sexes in the Venetian RepublicLink opens in a new window', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797 (Leiden, 2013), pp. 353-78.
• Ravid, Benjamin, 'Venice and its MinoritiesLink opens in a new window', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797 (Leiden, 2013), pp. 449-86.

Documents

• Sanudo, Marin, Venice, cità excelentissima: selections from the Renaissance diaries of Marin Sanudo, ed. and trans. Patricia H. Labalme and Laura Sanguineti White (Baltimore, 2008), pp. 287-325, 331-42.

Indications for Further Reading

• Gender and Social Status
• Minority Communities