By Maartje van Gelder
Early Modern Venice is generally assumed to have been an unusually calm city-state, devoid of the collective protest that characterised contemporary societies across Europe. In this talk, held in February 2024 at the Colloquium for Economic and Social History of Humboldt University Berlin, Maartje van Gelder argues that this eponymous reputation for serenity rests on extensive archival suppression…