Venice – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:35:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Venice – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 The Advancement of Health Care in Medieval Venice https://brewminate.com/the-advancement-of-health-care-in-medieval-venice/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 19:15:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=142058 Venice’s embodied a unique combination that fostered innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity. When Venetians invented quarantine in 1348, the

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Election and Service of the Doge in Medieval Venice https://brewminate.com/election-and-service-of-the-doge-in-medieval-venice/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:23:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=131222 The title “doge” was the title of the senior-most elected official of Venice and Genoa. Introduction The Doge

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International Trade and Institutional Change: Medieval Venice’s Response to Globalization https://brewminate.com/international-trade-and-institutional-change-medieval-venices-response-to-globalization/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:42:30 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=114481 Starting in 1297, a small group of particularly wealthy merchants blocked political and economic competition. Abstract International trade

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Strangers in the City: The Cosmopolitan Nature of 16th-Century Venice https://brewminate.com/strangers-in-the-city-the-cosmopolitan-nature-of-16th-century-venice/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:13:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=111390 Othello shows us the cosmopolitan nature of renaissance Venice. Of all Shakespeare’s plays, it is Othello which reflects

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A History of the Republic of Venice from the Early Middle Ages https://brewminate.com/a-history-of-the-republic-of-venice-from-the-early-middle-ages/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:13:29 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=111369 According to tradition, the original population consisted of refugees from nearby Roman cities. Introduction The Republic of Venice

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Torcello: Tracing the First Settlers of the Venetian Lagoon https://brewminate.com/torcello-tracing-the-first-settlers-of-the-venetian-lagoon/ Wed, 27 Nov 2019 21:56:25 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=110347 Examining who they were and why they started settling in this (at first sight) illogical location. Introduction Venice

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Crossing Borders Across Venetian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1500-1800 https://brewminate.com/crossing-borders-across-venetian-habsburg-and-ottoman-empires-1500-1800/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:41:47 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=103784 How the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian empires interacted with each other and how their competition over southeastern Europe

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Titian’s ‘Pastoral Concert’: A New Genre in Renaissance Italy https://brewminate.com/titians-pastoral-concert-a-new-genre-in-renaissance-italy/ Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:03:18 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=103745 This genre became one of the most important artistic contributions of Renaissance Venice. Farewell, peoples and cities. The

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Venice as the Ancient Source of Europe’s Commercial Roots https://brewminate.com/venice-as-the-ancient-source-of-europes-commercial-roots/ Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:35:03 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=79357 In the tumultuous aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire, the newly founded Republic of Venice boasted

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