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1 online resource (516 pages)
ISBN:
9789004428874
Serie:
The Medieval Mediterranean Ser.
Inhalt:
This book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400-1700) between colonial empire, negotiated and pragmatic rule; between soft touch and exploitation; in contexts of former and continuous imperial belongings; and with a focus on representations and modes of rule as well as on colonial daily realities and connectivities.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400-1700: Essays in Honour of Benjamin Arbel -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Benjamin Arbel: A Biographical Sketch -- Bibliography Benjamin Arbel -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1: Building Empire -- 2 Venetian Empire in Oratory and Print in the Later Fifteenth Century -- 3 The Old, the Antique, and the Venerable in Venetian Renaissance Architecture -- Part 2: Managing Empire -- 5 Venetian Citizenship and Venetian Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Twelfth to Fifteenth Century -- 6 "Nobili scaduti"? The Return of Cretan Patricians to Venice in the Seventeenth Century -- Part 3: Living Empire -- 7 Cittadin e mercadante de lì: The Early Sixteenth-Century Sopracomito in Armata, Jacomo Siguro -- 8 The Greeks in the Maritime Trade of Venice during the Sixteenth Century: The Case of the Verghis Family -- 9 Music as Aristocratic Pastime in the Stato da Mar: The Cypriot Madrigals of Giandomenico Martoretta -- 10 Latins and Greeks in the Venetian Colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean -- Part 4: Connecting Empire -- 11 A Device for Signalling the Height of the Tide at the Port of Venice around 1500 -- 11 Appendix -- 12 What Made a Ship Venetian? (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) -- 13 Jewish Medicine in Venetian Crete (Late Thirteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries): Physicians, Surgeons, and Manuscripts -- Part 5: Donating Empire -- 14 From the Far North to the Near East: Venice as an Intermediary in the Supply of Gyrfalcons to the Mamluks -- 15 The Interpreter Michele Membrè's Life in Venice -- 16 Accounting for Gifts: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Material Circulations in Venetian-Ottoman Diplomacy -- Index.
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ISBN 9789004427600
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004427600
Sprache:
Englisch
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