Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice

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Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice is written by Edward Muir and published by Princeton University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0691201358 (ISBN 10) and 9780691201351 (ISBN 13).

Venice's reputation for political stability and a strong, balanced republican government holds a prominent place in European political theory. Edward Muir traces the origins and development of this reputation, paying particular attention to the sixteenth century, when civic ritual in Venice reached its peak. He shows how the ritualization of society and politics was an important reason for Venice's stability. Influenced in part by cultural anthropology, he establishes and applies to Venice a new methodology for the historical study of civic ritual.