Project description DEENESFRITPL A Venetian view of violence Violence is a complex phenomenon with no clear definition. In general terms, it is theresult of complex interactions between cultural, social, economic, political, and environmental factors and is subject to changes that reflect on-going transformations within society. The EU-funded ViolenControl project will study violence during the early modern age to explore the role and weight of the state within society. It will examine rates of violence in some of the most important urban environments in the Republic of Venice – including Padua, Venice, and Verona – during the early modern age. Studying the transformations that the Venetian judicial bodies underwent as well as changes in the attitude of politics towards noble factionalism, will uncover the impact they had on violence. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Violence is the result of complex interactions between cultural, social, economic, political and environmental factors and is subject to changes that reflect on-going transformations within society. Investigating its perception and understanding the boundaries between tolerated, sanctioned, and unacknowledged violence allows to examine inter-personal relationships within a community and the shared value systems within it. The management of violence is then a direct consequence of specific political factors, which are expressed on the judicial level. Studying violence during the early modern age is of fundamental importance to understand, for example, the role and weight of the state within society.This research project will study the rate of violence in the Venetian urban environment during the early modern age and the efforts made by the Republic to reduce it. The project will pay particular attention to political violence among members of families belonging to the Venetian ruling class, to verify whether the Venetian context was an exception in the European context. The project will examine the transformations that the Venetian judicial bodies underwent to demonstrate what impact they had on violence, either by increasing or effectively containing it. In addition to the judicial system, the project will also examine the policing measure and the expansion of the surveillance network as a form of control of the urban territory. The results achieved will be compared with the rates of political violence, caused by factionalism, in the Italian mainland under Venetian rule. Finally, the project will verify how the Republic tried to put a brake on another main source of violence, the one linked to border banditry. Venice repeatedly negotiated extradition treaties with its neighbouring states in order to deny any space of immunity to outlaws, but the execution of these agreements had little success. Fields of science social scienceslawhuman rightshuman rights violationspolitical violencesocial sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systems Keywords history of violence early modern Republic of Venice political violence history of criminal law policing gender and violence peace and public order history of judicial institutions Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF YORK Net EU contribution € 224 933,76 Address HESLINGTON YO10 5DD York North Yorkshire United Kingdom See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber North Yorkshire York Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 224 933,76
