Venetian Seminar 8 May 2021

VENETIAN SEMINAR 8 May 2021 University of Leeds – Zoom 10.30 Coffee – online breakout rooms 11.00-12.30 Catherine Fletcher (Manchester Metropolitan): The dynamics of arms supply in the sixteenth-century Venetian terraferma Nora Gietz (Warwick): The Napoleonic parish reform in Venice (18071811): Rationale, reorganization, ruin Discussion Chair: David Laven (Nottingham) 12.30 Lunch break 1.30-2.30 Early career session 1 (chair – Mary Laven) Stephanie Azzarello (Cambridge): Rendering the Other: Depictions of Jews and Muslims in early Quattrocento Venetian manuscripts Luca Zenobi (Cambridge): At the frontiers of the Serenissima: Medieval borders and the spatial fabric of Quattrocento Italy Joshua Rushton (Leeds): Shrines and shrine books in the CounterReformation Respondent: Richard Mackenney (Binghamton) 2.30 Break 2.45-3.45 Early career session 2 (chair – Alex Bamji) Luise Scheidt (Cambridge): The representation of battles and war in late Quattrocento and Cinquecento Venice Valentina Tomassetti (Warwick): ‘My most precious possession’: Women’s honour in Venetian tribunals (XVI-XVII Century) Hannah Lee (National Portrait Gallery): The figure of the ‘Moor’ in the early modern Venetian interior Respondent: Holly Hurlburt (NC State) 3.45 Break 4.00-5.00 Keynote Patricia Fortini Brown (Princeton): The Venetian Bride Chair: Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck) 5.00 Drinks – online breakout rooms The Venetian Seminar is a peripatetic one-day workshop with a long tradition of participation by scholars of history, art history, literature and linguistics who study Venice and Italy. It is convened on a yearly basis by Alex Bamji (Leeds), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), and Mary Laven (Cambridge). We are grateful to the School of History at the University of Leeds for its support for this online event. There is no registration fee, but registration is required. Please sign up at this link to register. A Zoom link will be circulated to registered participants shortly before the Seminar.