Late Renaissance Venice Research Articles

:The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice

The War of the Fists explores early modern Venetian society through the lens of the festive combat which involved all classes, but especially the city's more marginal workers. It employs four different topical approaches: the social geography of Venetian factionalism; the structure of combat itself; the festive world which grew up around the encounters, providing workers with an alternative society of their own; and the response of the Venetian patriciate, government and police to this largely uncontrollable, plebeian entertainment.

The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice.

The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice.

The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice. Robert C. Davis

<i>The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice</i>. Robert C. Davis

The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice. By Robert C. Davis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. vi plus 232pp. $39.95)

The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice. By Robert C. Davis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. vi plus 232pp. $39.95)

The war of the fists: popular culture and public violence in late Renaissance Venice

The war of the fists: popular culture and public violence in late Renaissance Venice

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The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice

The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice

Out of the Shadow: Heretical and Catholic Women in Renaissance Venice

In late Renaissance Venice, a patriarchal ideology was not only the patrimony of noblemen but was diffused among male artisans as well. Drawing on the records of trials from the Roman Inquisition in the later half of the six teenth century, this article examines ways in which both Catholic and heretical women—in both cases the wives of artisans—responded to the patriarchy and the violence of their households. Catholic women found refuge in a variety of reli gious devotions ranging from confession to the rituals associated with childbirth. To a degree, these women were aided by certain of the Tridentine reforms. The heretical women, by contrast, sought solidarity with one another and demon strated remarkable self-confidence in their interpretations of religious matters. Yet there were similarities in both social and cultural dimensions of female reli giousness in sixteenth-century Venice which transcended purely religious dif ferences. These similarities, moreover, are suggestive of a world in which, despite the pervasiveness of a patriarchial ideology, women enjoyed considerable autonomy.