Venice: A New History by Madden, Thomas F.

Venice: A New History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780147509802)

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Format: Paperback
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Venice: A New History by Madden, Thomas F.

Venice: A New History

$21.00
Venice: A New History by Madden, Thomas F.

Venice: A New History

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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A spellbinding new portrait of one of the world's most beloved cities, from the author of Istanbul

La Serenissima. Its breathtaking architecture, art, and opera ensure that Venice remains a perennially popular destination for tourists and armchair travelers alike. Yet most of the available books about this magical city are either facile travel guides or fusty academic tomes. In Venice, renowned historian Thomas F. Madden draws on new research to explore the city's many astonishing achievements and to set 1,500 years of Venetian history and the endless Venetian-led Crusades in the context of the ever-shifting Eurasian world. Filled with compelling insights and famous figures, Venice is a monumental work of popular history that's as opulent and entertaining as the great city itself.

Author: Thomas F. Madden
ISBN-10: 0147509807
ISBN-13: 9780147509802
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2013
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d
By Thomas F. Madden
By Thomas F. Madden
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Thomas F. Madden is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. He has written and lectured extensively on the ancient and medieval Mediterranean as well as the history of Christianity and Islam. Awards for his scholarship include the Medieval Academy of America's Haskins Medal and the Medieval Institute's Otto Grundler Prize. He is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Medieval Academy of America. His books include Venice: A New History and Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World.

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