Edward Muir - Publications#
Books and EditionsCivic Ritual in Renaissance Venice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981, 256pp. Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History
Italian translation: Il rituale civico a Venezia nel Rinascimento. Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 1984.
Chinese translation: Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, forthcoming.
The Leopold von Ranke Manuscript Collection of Syracuse University: The Complete Catalogue. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1983, 288pp.
Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 1. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, 264pp.
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, 240pp.
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 390pp.
Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History
Reader's edition under title, Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Italian translation: Il sangue s’infuria e ribolle: La vendetta nel Friuli del Rinacimento. Verona: Cierre edizioni, 2010.
History from Crime. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 3. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 236pp.
Ritual in Early Modern Europe. New Approaches in European History series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 2nd edition, 2005, 332 pp.
Italian translation: Riti e rituali nell’Europa moderna. Milan, La Nuova Italia, 2000.
Spanish translation: Fiesta y rito en la Europa moderna. Madrid, Editorial Complutense, 2001.
Excerpts reprinted in Richard M. Golden, Social History of Western Civilization. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
Co-author with Brian Levack, Michael Maas, and Meredith Veldman, The West: Encounters and Transformations. New York: Longman, 2004. Concise edition, 2006. 2nd full edition, 2007. 3rd full edition, 2011, 965pp. 4th full edition, in preparation.
The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007, 192pp.
Italian translation: Guerre culturali: Libertinismo e religione alla fine del Rinascimento. Bari: Laterza, 2008.
Articles and Chapters
"The Doge as Primus Inter Pares: Ducal Interregnum Rites in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice," in Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, edited by Sergio Bertelli and Gloria Ramakus, 1: 145-60. Florence: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 1978.
"Images of Power: Art and Pageantry in Renaissance Venice," American Historical Review 84 (1979): 16-52.
Excerpts reprinted in The Many Sides of History: Readings in the Western Heritage, vol. 1: The Ancient World to Early Modern Europe, edited by Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 177-86, and in Major Problems in the History of the Italian Renaissance, edited by Benjamin G. Kohl and Alison Andrews Smith (Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath, 1995), 403-12.
"Manifestazioni e cerimonie nella Venezia di Andrea Gritti," in "Renovatio Urbis": Venezia nell' età di Andrea Gritti (1523-1538), edited by Manfredo Tafuri, 59-77. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1984.
"The Cannibals of Renaissance Italy," Syracuse Scholar 5 (Fall 1984): 5-14.
"Leopold von Ranke, His Library, and the Shaping of Historical Evidence," Courier 22 (1987): 3-10.
Co-author with Ronald Weissman, "Social and Symbolic Places in Renaissance Venice and Florence," in The Power of Place: Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations, edited by John Agnew and James Duncan, 81-104. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
"The Virgin on the Street Corner: The Place of the Sacred in Italian Cities," in Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Steven Ozment, 25-42, Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, vol. 11. Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1989. (Winner of the Harold J. Grimm Memorial Prize)
Reprinted in The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Readings, edited by Paula Findlen, 151-166 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002) and in The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad, edited by John Jeffries Martin, 279-296 (London: Routledge, 2003).
A "Commentary" in Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: 1250-1500, edited by Charles M. Rosenberg, 227-30. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.
"Gaze and Touch: Ritual in the Renaissance and Reformation," Ideas from the National Humanities Center 2 (Summer 1993): 4-14.
"The Double Binds of Manly Revenge," in Gender Rhetorics: Postures of Dominance and Submission in Human History, edited by Richard C. Trexler, 65-82. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1994.
"Observar les petiteses," in Les raons del passat: Tendències historiorgràfiques actuals, edited by Agustí Colomines and Vicent S. Olmos, 183-208. Catarroja and Barcelona: Editorial Afers, 1998 (a revised version translated into Catalan of the "Introduction: Observing Trifles" to Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe).
"Extraterritorialità e integrazione nelle corti del tardo medioevo," in Origini dello Stato: Processi di formazione statale in Italia fra medioeo ed età moderna, edited by Giorgio Chittolini, Anthony Molho, and Pierangelo Schiera, 483-89. Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento. Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico, Quaderno 39. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1994.
"Vendetta and Love in Renaissance Italy," in Crossed Stars: Artistic Sources and Social Conflict in the Ballet `Romeo and Juliet', edited by Rita Felciano and Eric Hellman, 13-18. San Francisco: San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, 1994.
"The Italian Renaissance in America," American Historical Review, 100 (1995): 1095-1118.
"Idee, riti, simboli del potere," in Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima, vol. 2: L'età del Comune (metà XII ca. -- fine XIII sec.), edited by G. Cracco and G. Ortalli. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1995.
"Le vie sacre e le vie profane di Venezia," in San Marco aspetti storici e agiografici: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Venezia, 26-29 aprile 1994, edited by Antonio Niero, 81-96. Venice: Marsilio, 1996.
"The Sources of Civil Society in Italy," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29 (1999): 379-406.
"Introduction" to Duccio Balestracci, The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant, trans. Paolo Squatriti and Betsy Merideth. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
"Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics? Venice after Agnadello," in Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797, eds. John Martin and Dennis Romano, 137-67. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
“The Idea of Community in Renaissance Italy,” The 2001 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture, Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 1-18.
“Government and Bureaucracies,” in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, edited by Guido Ruggiero, 107-123. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
“Modi diversi di leggere Il formaggio e i vermi,” in Uno storico, un mugnaio, un libro: Carlo Ginzburg, Il formaggio e I vermi, 1976-2002, edited by Aldo Colonnello and Andrea Del Col, 29-34. Monreale Valcellina: Circolo culturale Menocchio, 2002.
“Representations of Power in Renaissance Italy,” in Italy in the Renaissance (1300-1550), edited by John M. Najemy, 226-45. Oxford Short History of Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Why Venice?: Venetian Society and the Success of Early Opera,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 36 (2006): 331-354.
“The Eye of the Procession: Ritual Ways of Seeing in the Renaissance,” 129-153 in Ceremonial Culture in the Pre-Modern World, edited by Nicholas Howe. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
“In Some Neighbors We Trust: On the Exclusion of Women from the Public in Renaissance Italy,” 271-90 in Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy, Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy, edited by David S. Peterson and Daniel E. Bornstein. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008.
“Trexleriana: An Introduction,” 19-27 in Public Life, Gender, and Private Conduct across the Early Modern and Modern World: Essays in Honour of Richard C. Trexler, edited by Peter Arnade and Michael Rocke. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008.
“Presence and Representation in Italian Civic Rituals,” 81-97 in La ville à la Renaissance: Espaces—Reprèsentations—Pouvoirs, edited by Gèrald Chaix. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2008.
“Impertinent Meddlers in State Building: An Anti-War Movement in Seventeenth-Century Italy,” in Europa e Italia: Studi in onore di Giorgio Chittolini, eds. Paola Guglielmotti, Isabella Lazzarini, and Gian Maria Varnanini. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011. Pp. 343-354.
“An Evening at the Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice,” in Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music, edited by Jane Fulcher. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 335-353.
“The Anthropology of Venice,” in Handbook of Venetian History, 1400-1600, edited by Eric Dursteler. Leiden: Brill, in press.
“La Patria del Friuli e della Repubblica di Venezia” in Usage de l’histoire et pratiques politiques en Italie, du Moyen Age aux temps modernes: autour de la notion de réemploi, eds. Caroline Callard, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, and Alain Tallon. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, forthcoming.
“Venice, Rome, and Garry Wills,” The Horror of War and the Hope for Peace: Essays in Honor of Garry Wills, ed. Kenneth L. Vaux, forthcoming.
Encyclopedia Entries
"Coronations" and "Microhistory" in Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns. New York: Garland, 1994.
"Microhistory or microstoria" in A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. D.R. Woolf. New York: Garland, 1998.
"Carnival," "Ritual, Civic," and "Violence" in The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
Reviews and Review Essays
Richard Tilden Rapp, Industry and Economic Decline in Seventeenth-Century Venice and Renaissance Venice, edited by J.R. Hale, reviewed in American Historical Review 82 (1977): 140-41.
Gene Brucker, The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence, reviewed in The Sixteenth-Century Journal 10 (1979): 108-109.
"New Light on Old Numbers: The Political and Cultural Implications of Les Toscans et leurs familles," review essay in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11 (1981): 477-85.
Ronald F.E. Weissman, Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence, reviewed in American Historical Review 87 (1982): 1416-17.
Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr., The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence, reviewed in Labor History 25 (1984): 302-305.
Richard C. Trexler, Public Life in Renaissance Florence, reviewed in Catholic Historical Review 70 (1984): 303-305.
Aldo De Maddalena, Dalla città al borgo: Avvio di una metamorfosi economica e sociale nella Lombardia spagnola, reviewed in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 15 (1984): 134-36.
Brian Pullan, The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice, 1550-1670, reviewed in The American Historical Review 89 (1984): 725.
Richard J. Goy, Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History, reviewed in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (1987): 144-46.
Rona Goffen, Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans, reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly 40 (1987): 331-34.
Donald Queller, The Venetian Patriciate: Reality versus Myth, reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly 41 (1988): 288-91.
James S. Grubb, Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State, reviewed in Speculum 65 (1990): 678-80.
Carlo Ginzburg, Clues, Myths, and Historical Method, reviewed in Journal of Social History 25 (1991): 123-25.
Edoardo Salzano, ed., An Atlas of Venice; Manfredo Tafuri, Venice and the Renaissance; and Richard J. Goy, Venetian Vernacular Architecture, review essay in Design Book Review 20 (Spring 1991): 39-41.
Gábor Klaniczay, The Uses of Supernatural Power: The Transformation of Popular Religion in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe, reviewed in Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1992 5 (1993): 398-99.
"All the World's a Stage . . .": Art and Pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque, edited by Barbara Wisch and Susan Scott Munshower, reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly 45 (1992): 560-62.
Daniel Waley, Siena and the Sienese in the Thirteenth Century and Martha D. Pollack, Turin, 1564-1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital, reviewed in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 24 (1993): 143-45.
Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, "Sopra le acque salse:" Espaces, pouvoir et société à Venise à la fin du Moyen Age, 2 vols., reviewed in Speculum 69 (1994): 1150-52.
R. Po-Chia Hsia, Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial and David Gentilcore, From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra d'Otranto, reviewed in The Journal of Modern History 67 (1995): 182-85.
Claudio Povolo, Il romanziere e l'archivista: Da un processo veneziano del '600 all'anonimo manoscritto dei Promessi Sposi, reviewed in The Journal of Modern History 67 (1995): 961-62.
Anthony Molho, Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence, reviewed in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 27 (1996): 320-21.
Matteo Casini, I gesti del principe: La festa politica a Firenze e Venezia in età rinascimentale, reviewed in New on the Rialto, no. 18 (1997): 6-7.
Steven A. Epstein, Genoa and the Genoese: 958-1528, reviewed in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28 (1997): 280-81.
Claudio Povolo, L'intrigo dell'Onore: Poteri e istituzioni nella Repubblica di Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento, reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 1345-46.
James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700, reviewed in Sixteenth Century Journal 38 (2007): 1178-79.
Iain Fenlon, The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice, reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly 61 (2008): 1233-12134.
Thomas Kuehn, Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence, reviewed in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39 (2009): 580-81.
Joanne M. Ferraro, Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789, reviewed in Eighteenth-Century Studies 44 (2011): 305-306.
