Decoding Debate in the Venetian Senate

Short Stories of Crisis and Response on Albania (1392-1402)
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52051-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 134, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

Debate within the Venetian Senate at turn of the fifteenth century has long been opaque, as only an elite few were allowed access to Senate proceedings, their participation bound to secrecy. This volume offers a new interpretation of scribal intent, enabling hidden aspects of those discussions to come to light.

By using documentation related to Venice’s involvement in Albanian territories as a case study, this study unfolds the systematic yet secretive method by which scribes classified Senate discussions. The registers emerge as triumphs of precise and pragmatic codification within a milieu of information overflow.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rojas Molina, Grabiela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Grabiela Rojas Molina, Ph.D. (2020), Central European University, is a researcher of intellectual history and late medieval Venice. She has also delivered lectures and published articles on the legal tradition of medieval Albanian cities.