Set Texts

• Chambers, David, and Brian Pullan (eds and trans), ​​Venice: A Documentary History 1450-1630 (1992; rept. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001)
• Dursteler, Eric R. (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797Link opens in a new window (Leiden: Brill, 2013) Brill e-book

As the Dursteler collection is available as an e-book via the Warwick Library, we ask only that you buy a copy of the Chambers and Pullan collection before you arrive in Venice. You can find buying options hereLink opens in a new window. NB There will be set reading from it each week and it will be useful for your essays.

Preparatory Reading

In order to get the most out of the module, students are encouraged to read a selection of the following books in addition to the set texts before they arrive in Venice:

• **Lane, F.C., Venice, a Maritime RepublicLink opens in a new window (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973) [This is particularly recommended]
• Nichols, Tom, Renaissance Art in Venice: From Tradition to IndividualismLink opens in a new window (London: Laurence King, 2016)
• Romano, Dennis, Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon CityLink opens in a new window (New York, 2024)
• Ruggiero, Guido, ed., A Companion to the Worlds of the RenaissanceLink opens in a new window (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2008)
• Ruggiero, Guido, The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the RinascimentoLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2014)
• Woolfson, Jonathan, ed., Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)