Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic explores the different aspects of political actions and experiences in late medieval and early modern Venice. It will be essential reading for students of Venetian history, medieval and early modern Italy and Europe, political and social history.

Maartje van Gelder is Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Amsterdam. Recent publications include a co-edited volume on Cross-Cultural Diplomacy and Diplomatic Intermediaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2015) and 'The People's Prince: Popular Politics in Early Modern Venice', The Journal of Modern History 90.2 (2018): 249-291.

Claire Judde de Larivière is Senior Lecturer in medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Toulouse, and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She has recently published The Revolt of Snowballs: Murano Confronts Venice, 1511 (trans. Thomas V. Cohen, 2018).

Introduction

Maartje van Gelder and Claire Judde de Larivière

Chapter 1. Popular protest and alternative visions of the Venetian polity, c.1260 to 1423

Dennis Romano

Chapter 2. Memorializing conspiracy and unrest. Venetian historical writing at the turn of the sixteenth century

Monique O'Connell

Chapter 3. Political participation and ordinary politicization in Renaissance Venice. Was the popolo a political actor?

Claire Judde de Larivière

Chapter 4. Popular heresies and dreams of political transformation in sixteenth-century Venice

John Jeffries Martin

Chapter 5. Spaces of unrest? Policing hospitality sites in early modern Venice

Rosa Salzberg

Chapter 6. Protest in the Piazza: contested space in early modern Venice

Maartje van Gelder

Chapter 7. Female agency, subjectivity, and disorder in early modern Venice

Joanne M. Ferraro

Chapter 8. Tensions and compromises in the republican system of justice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice

Cristina Setti

Chapter 9. Boatmen, fishermen, and Venetian institutions: from negotiation to confrontation

Robin Quillien and Solène Rivoal

Chapter 10. Conflicts, social unease, and protests in the world of the Venetian guilds (sixteenth to eighteenth century)

Andrea Zannini

Afterword

Edward Muir