Legal and Political Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2108187 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Walker (0000-0003-2571-2429, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 800-826 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417502000361 |
| OpenAlex | W1974554955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In a recent CSSH article, Jutta Sperling argued that in early modern Venice, political theory was a hermetically enclosed linguistic system, characterized by paradoxes and tautologies. In what we might describe as a 'deconstruction' of the so-called 'myth of Venice,' Sperling argued that it collapses under the weight of its own internal contradictions, which reveal it to be 'non-sensical.' The insistence that Venice was a perfect state not only prevented nobles from dealing effectively with conspicuous consumption and electoral corruption but made it impossible for them to admit to the real source of their problems without destroying their claims to legitimacy. In particular, Sperling singles out the demographic and social consequences of a commitment to lineal purity among nobles, resulting in limited marriage, inflated dowries, the enforced placement of women in nunneries, and increasing economic divisions within a nobility whose official ideology remained one of Republican equality
Art · Civilization · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Ideology · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Classics · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |