TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barzman,Karen-edis
TI  - The limits of identity: early modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the representation of difference 
T2  - Art and material culture in medieval and Renaissance Europe,
SN  - 9789004331518
AV  - DG676.97.T9 B37 2017
U1  - 945/.305 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Italy
KW  - Venice
KW  - History
KW  - Difference (Philosophy)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Beheading
KW  - Sources
KW  - Beheading in literature
KW  - Beheading in art
KW  - Venice (Italy)
KW  - Relations
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - To 1797
KW  - Dalmatia (Croatia)
KW  - Bosnia and Herzegovina
KW  - Croatia
KW  - Dalmatia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 “A Diabolical Violence” and “Authority Above the Law”: Ottoman Rule in Venetian Public Discourse -- 2 Justice and Iniquity: Decapitation’s Double Valence in Early Modern Venice -- 3 Judith Triumphant: Severed Heads on Public Monuments and in Celebrations of Venetian Victory -- 4 Severed Heads and Bodies in Pieces: Venetian Reception of Jerusalem Liberated  -- 5 Provincial Subjectivity and the Troubling of Difference: The Morlacchi in Venetian Text and Image -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and decapitation bore a heavy burden in this regard, given as indices of an arbitrary violence ascribed to Venice’s long-time adversary, “the infidel Turk.” The book also addresses the recuperation of violence in Venetian discourse about maintaining civic order and waging crusade. Finally, it examines mobile populations operating in the porous limits between Venetian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia and the distinctions they disrupted between “Venetian” and “Turk” until their settlement on farmland of the Venetian state. This occurred in the eighteenth century with the closing of the borderlands, thresholds of difference against which early modern “Venetian-ness” was repeatedly measured and affirmed
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004331518
ER  -