Robert Charles Davis

"The War of the Fists" is a study of 17th-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or "battagliole", which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. Their importance in the city's plebeian life makes bridge battles an extremely valuable point of entry for exploring structures of Venetian popular culture, a task which Robert Davis attempts at several levels.

Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice

The War of the Fists

Unwittingly involved with rogue CIA agents and a woman bent on revenge, Alex Seacourt finds himself involved in a plot that threatens the world with a new deadly form of an AIDS virus.

The Doomsday Kiss

A powerful work exposes the religiously-based white slave trade that existed throughout the Mediterranean, where it was as extensive as--and more brutal than--the trade in African slaves.

Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-modern Mediterranean

Holy War and Human Bondage

Judith C Brown

Judith C. Brown

This major new collection of essays by leading scholars of Renaissance Italy transforms many of our existing notions about Renaissance politics, economy, social life, religion, medicine, and art. All the essays are founded on original archival research and examine questions within a wide chronological and geographical framework - in fact the pan-Italian scope of the volume is one of the volume's many attractions.Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy provides a broad, comprehensive perspective on the central role that gender concepts played in Italian Renaissance society.

Robert Charles Davis

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