Parution : Kathryn Taylor, “Ordering Customs Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice”, Harrogate, Combined Academic Publishers, 2023
Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information. Venice was at the center of both these developments. The book traces the emergence of a distinctive tradition of ethnographic writing that served as the basis for defining religious and cultural difference in new ways. Taylor draws on a trove of unpublished sources—diplomatic correspondence, court records,...