Description: Venice, Polity of Mercy presents a history of the people of Venice from the mid-thirteenth century to the mid-seventeenth, and provides a new perspective on the changing relationship of their economic, political and religious life.
Brief description:
Richard Mackenney is a professor in the Department of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Review Quotes:
"Mackenney certainly makes his case regarding the activity and agency of subordinate classes long treated as disenfranchised [...] as the key to tracing [...] inequality. The case is made stronger by his clear mastery of the archives."