Women and Men in Early Modern Venice: Reassessing History

The major aim of this book is to articulate the discursive arguments in an endeavour to reassess the overwhelmingly positivist-empiricist tradition of Venetian historiography. The author maintains that reassessing mainstream historiography in the field entails not only focusing on both its obvious and hidden shortcomings, but also the task of composing a new kind of text that highlights both its potentiality and its limits. With this in mind, the author has taken the common women and men of Venice as the major historical subjects of the study.