Edward Muir
Biographic Data
| ID | 1059908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Muir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Muir |
| SIGNATURE | MUIR E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice by Anastasia Stouraiti
Overflowing with imperialistic ardor to recover from the Ottoman Empire its once abundant possessions in Greece, the Republic of Venice fought between 1684 and 1699 in the War of the Morea (Peloponnese). Except for one scandalous episode, modern historians of Europe have not displayed much interest in this seemingly obscure war after which Venice soon lost what it had gained. The scandal involved Francesco Morosini, the captain general of Venice,…
Conversations with the Dead
La Disfida di Barletta: Storia, fortuna, rappresentazione
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Claire Judde de Larivière. La révolte des boules de neige: Murano face à Venise, 1511
The “snowball revolt” was a minor event in a small place. It had been snowing on January 27, 1511, when the ceremonial transfer of authority from the old podestà of Murano to the new one took place. An island dependency of the Republic of Venice, Murano had a population between five and six thousand, and its residents lived from fishing or glass making. Protective of the secrets of the glass industry, Venetian authorities kept Murano isolated fro…
Italy in the No Longer Forgotten Centuries
The West, Encounters and Transformations: Encounters and Transformations, the, Combined Volume
Public Life in Renaissance Florence
Old Debates Recycled
The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
Iain Fenlon. The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xvi + 448 pp. index. illus. bibl. $50. ISBN: 978–0–300–11937–4. - Volume 61 Issue 4
The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700
Why Venice? Venetian Society and the Success of Early Opera
Why did opera first succeed as a public art form in Venice between 1637 and 1650 when all the elements of the new form were fully evident? The answer is to be found in the conjunction between Venetian carnival festivity and the intellectual politics of Venetian republicanism during the two generations after the lifting of the papal interdict against Venice in 1607. During this extraordinary period of relatively free speech, which was unmatched el…
The 2001 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: The Idea of Community in Renaissance Italy
This essay is based upon the methodological assumption that by examining an exceptional event in an exceptional place one can unmask the hidden assumptions of the mundane and quotidian. The problem is to determine what the idea of community could have meant in north Italian towns and villages during the Renaissance. Depositions about a brawl in an otherwise insignificant small town provide an opportunity to examine how the idea of community was c…
Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early
Social Science Should Be a Process, Not a Bloody Shirt
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Ritual in Early Modern Europe
This is an ambitious, entertaining, and well-written, but nevertheless somewhat puzzling book.The author seeks to illustrate and analyze the process by which what were seen as powerful invocations of the divine in the Middle Ages were transformed into "mere" or "empty" ritual by the end of the eighteenth century.Rather than an original investigation of archival sources, it is a survey of the literature on ritual theory, and of published primary a…
They Blinded Me with Political Science: On the Use of Nonpeer Reviewed Research in Education Policy
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The Sources of Civil Society in Italy
January 01 1999 The Sources of Civil Society in Italy Edward Muir Edward Muir Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Edward Muir Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Online ISSN: 1530-9169 Print ISSN: 0022-1953 © 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology an…
L'intrigo dell'Onore: Poteri e istituzioni nella Repubblica di Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento
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Genoa & the Genoese
Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence
How did propertied families in late medieval and early modern Florence maintain their power and affluence while equally important clans elsewhere were fatally undermined by the growth of commerce and personal freedom, and the consequences of the Plague? Drawing on a vast array of archival research - from letters and memoirs to fiscal declarations to records of the Dowry Fund, Anthony Molho suggests that the answer is found in the twin institution…
Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial . R. Po-Chia Hsia From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra . d'Otranto., David Gentilcore
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance
In the small Italian town of Udine on the first day of carnival - February 27, 1511 - a crowd of Udinesi and peasants gathered for the festivities, along with more than 1000 tired, hungry militiamen. The wine flowed, looting began, and the bloody rioting that ensued soon spread to the surrounding countryside. By the time it was over, nobles had been slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to anim…
Il romanziere e l'archivista: Da un processo veneziano del `600 all'anonim manoscritto dei Promessi Sposi. Claudio Povolo
Sopra le acque salse: Espaces, pouvoir et Société à Venise à la fin du Moyen Âge. Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe
An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory...In essence these historians begin their analysis `from below,' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history.--'Catholic Historical Review.' 'Selections from' Quaderni Storici
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe
Various authors present case studies of microhistory, an evolving branch of historical research that seeks to focus on writing without anachronism about events and peoples. The microhistorian uses the methodology of strict positivist standards to reconstruct the meanings of artifacts in their original context. They seek to find historical causation on the level of small groups and open history to ideas tainted by the modernity of other methods
The 2001 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: The Idea of Community in Renaissance Italy
This essay is based upon the methodological assumption that by examining an exceptional event in an exceptional place one can unmask the hidden assumptions of the mundane and quotidian. The problem is to determine what the idea of community could have meant in north Italian towns and villages during the Renaissance. Depositions about a brawl in an otherwise insignificant small town provide an opportunity to examine how the idea of community was c…
The Sources of Civil Society in Italy
January 01 1999 The Sources of Civil Society in Italy Edward Muir Edward Muir Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Edward Muir Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Online ISSN: 1530-9169 Print ISSN: 0022-1953 © 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology an…
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe
An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory...In essence these historians begin their analysis `from below,' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history.--'Catholic Historical Review.' 'Selections from' Quaderni Storici
Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence
Why Venice? Venetian Society and the Success of Early Opera
Why did opera first succeed as a public art form in Venice between 1637 and 1650 when all the elements of the new form were fully evident? The answer is to be found in the conjunction between Venetian carnival festivity and the intellectual politics of Venetian republicanism during the two generations after the lifting of the papal interdict against Venice in 1607. During this extraordinary period of relatively free speech, which was unmatched el…
They Blinded Me with Political Science: On the Use of Nonpeer Reviewed Research in Education Policy
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The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
New Light on Old Numbers: The Political and Cultural Implications of Les Toscans et Leurs Familles
This article is a critique of Herlihy and Klapisch-Zubers book Les Toscans et Leurs Familles [Tuscans and Their Families] which is a historical demographic study based on the Florentine catasto of 1427. The political and cultural implications of the book are discussed. (ANNOTATION)
Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
Dalla Citta al Borgo: Avvio di una Metamorfosi Economica e Sociale Nella Lombardia Spagnola
Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans
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Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
The Venetian Patriciate: Reality versus Myth
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Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective
How we did the fallen women of Bologna regain their lost honor as wives or nuns? Why did the church need to control the quasi-magical power of female fertility? What did working women do to transform the factory environment-- as well as their social identity? In the microstoria of Italian scholars, good stories make even better history. Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective-- the inaugural volume of Selections from Quaderni Storici-- looks at …
Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State. James S. Grubb
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe
Various authors present case studies of microhistory, an evolving branch of historical research that seeks to focus on writing without anachronism about events and peoples. The microhistorian uses the methodology of strict positivist standards to reconstruct the meanings of artifacts in their original context. They seek to find historical causation on the level of small groups and open history to ideas tainted by the modernity of other methods
All the world's a stage: Art and pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque. Part I, Triumphal Celebrations and the Rituals of Statecraft. Part 2, Theatrical Spectacle and Spectacular Theatre
Barbara Wisch and Susan Scott Munshower, eds. “All the world's a stage ...“: Art and pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque. Part i, Triumphal Celebrations and the Rituals of Statecraft. Part 2, Theatrical Spectacle and Spectacular Theatre. (Papers in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University, 6.) University Park, Pennsylvania: Department of Art History, The Pennsylvania State University, 1990. 2 vols. + 307 pls. + xx + 620 pp. $50. - …
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe
An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory...In essence these historians begin their analysis `from below,' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history.--'Catholic Historical Review.' 'Selections from' Quaderni Storici
Siena & the Sienese in the Thirteenth Century
Sopra le acque salse: Espaces, pouvoir et Société à Venise à la fin du Moyen Âge. Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial . R. Po-Chia Hsia From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra . d'Otranto., David Gentilcore
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance
In the small Italian town of Udine on the first day of carnival - February 27, 1511 - a crowd of Udinesi and peasants gathered for the festivities, along with more than 1000 tired, hungry militiamen. The wine flowed, looting began, and the bloody rioting that ensued soon spread to the surrounding countryside. By the time it was over, nobles had been slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to anim…
Il romanziere e l'archivista: Da un processo veneziano del `600 all'anonim manoscritto dei Promessi Sposi. Claudio Povolo
Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence
How did propertied families in late medieval and early modern Florence maintain their power and affluence while equally important clans elsewhere were fatally undermined by the growth of commerce and personal freedom, and the consequences of the Plague? Drawing on a vast array of archival research - from letters and memoirs to fiscal declarations to records of the Dowry Fund, Anthony Molho suggests that the answer is found in the twin institution…
Genoa & the Genoese
L'intrigo dell'Onore: Poteri e istituzioni nella Repubblica di Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento
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Ritual in Early Modern Europe
This is an ambitious, entertaining, and well-written, but nevertheless somewhat puzzling book.The author seeks to illustrate and analyze the process by which what were seen as powerful invocations of the divine in the Middle Ages were transformed into "mere" or "empty" ritual by the end of the eighteenth century.Rather than an original investigation of archival sources, it is a survey of the literature on ritual theory, and of published primary a…
Art (26 works) · History (24 works) · Art history (16 works) · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (15 works) · The Renaissance (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (8 works)