{"product_id":"mad-blood-stirring-vendetta-and-factions-in-friuli-during-the-renaissance-paperback","title":"Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward Muir\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals--the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular revolt in Renaissance Italy (and the basis for the story of \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eMad Blood Stirring\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping account and analysis of this event, as well as the social structures and historical conflicts preceding it and the subtle shifts in the mentality of revenge it introduced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new reader's edition offers students and general readers an abridged version of this classic work which shifts the focus from specialized scholarly analysis to the book's main theme: the role of vendetta in city and family politics. Uncovering the many connections between the carnival motifs, hunting practices, and vendetta rituals, Muir finds that the Udine massacre occurred because, at that point in Renaissance history, violent revenge and allegiance to factions provided the best alternative to failed political institutions. But the carnival massacre also marked a crossroads: the old mentality of vendetta was soon supplanted by the emerging sense that the direct expression of anger should be suppressed--to be replaced by duels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Muir \u003c\/b\u003e is the Ver Steeg Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is the editor, with Guido Ruggiero, of \u003ci\u003eSex and Gender in Historical Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMicrohistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.91 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 26, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782319112480,"sku":"9780801858499","price":54.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1f131ce298c63fb10d8d3e7ed2290761.webp?v=1780567947","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mad-blood-stirring-vendetta-and-factions-in-friuli-during-the-renaissance-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}