The Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice
Dana E. Katz examines the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a paradox of urban space. In 1516, the Senate established the ghetto on the periphery of the city and legislated nocturnal curfews to reduce the Jews' visibility in Venice. Katz argues that it was precisely this practice of marginalization th...
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| Language: | English |
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Margins as laboratories of urban planning
- Enclosures as topographies of vision
- Windows as sites of visual disturbance
- Walls as boundaries of the night