On The Social,Political And Cultural Factors Influencing The Rise And Decline Of Venice Commerce

At the present, there is not much specialized research on noneconomic factors of the nourishment and decline of Venice commerce. Therefore, the thesis will choose this topic as the subject of the master's paper. Besides the foreword and concluding remarks, this paper consists of three parts.The first section mainly probes into Venetian social class structure and government system. In a macroscopic point of view, the long lasted prosperous business in Venice is based on its centralized social class structure and its many faceted system of government. Microscopically, split and struggle, which ran through its history, influenced the steady development of commerce and accelerated its decline.The second part focuses on a series of policies in politics, economy, and diplomatic implemented by Venice government, which exerted great effects on business. All these policies were striving to make economic profit. In some sense, they indeed greatly promoted the prosperity of business. However, they were more or less of extremism and expedient, whose negativity became more and moreobvious with time going on, and hindered the further development of commerce.The paper tries to elaborate the features of Venetian commercial culture from the prospective of microscopic culture. And the cultural factor is the main topic of Part Three: Venice has not only a strong smell of native commercial culture, but various cultures absorbed from alient places. These various cultural factors, interweaving and interacting, stimulated Venice's economy to be prosperous for centuries, and on the other hand, accelerated its recession process unavoidably.