Decoding Debate in the Venetian Senate

Short Stories of Crisis and Response on Albania (1392-1402)

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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.
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2022
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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.
Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

 1 Albania in Focus

 2 Sources

 3 Note on Names, Transcriptions and Dates

1 Decoding Senate Debate
 1.1 Theoretical Considerations

 1.2 From ‘Debate’ to Entry

 1.3 From Entry to ‘Story’
 1.3.1 Selection Criteria


2 Debate in Context
 2.1 Elitism and Protagonism

 2.2 Sea Riches

 2.3 Past and Present


3 Outline on Venice and the Mediterranean Protagonists
 3.1 Power Units alla veneziana

 3.2 Communal Administration and Organisation of Albanian Cities

 3.3 Albanian Protagonists

 3.4 Mediterranean Protagonists


4 Newsworthiness
 4.1 Uneven Impact: N-entries and Other Nouitates (1392–1394)

 4.2 Alternative Formulations of N-entries (1394–1395)

 4.3 The Ottoman Victory: A Change of Perspective (1396–1397)

 4.4 Albania Rebels (1398–1400)

 4.5 News Heard and Expectation (1400–1401)

 4.6 Latest News: All Enemies Defeated (1402)

 4.7 Concluding Remarks


5 ‘What the Signoria Says’
 5.1 First Responses to Durrës, Shkodra and Lezhë (1392–1394)

 5.2 New Threats: Many Responses (1395–1396)

 5.3 Venice’s Silence and Its Consequence (1397–1400)

 5.4 Venice’s Say in a Changing World (1401–1402)

 5.5 Concluding Remarks


Epilogue: Antonio Morosini, the Witness

Some Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Scholars, non-academics and graduate students interested in Venetian history, the stato da mar, medieval and early modern Mediterranean studies, political communication, historical method and explanation, and intellectual history.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
x; 256 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004520936

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