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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents Preface List of Figures Benjamin Arbel: A Biographical Sketch Georg Christ, Renard Gluzman Bibliography Benjamin Arbel Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Georg Christ, Franz-Julius Morche Part 1: Building Empire 2 Venetian Empire in Oratory and Print in the Later Fifteenth Century Monique O’Connell 3 The Old, the Antique, and the Venerable in Venetian Renaissance Architecture Deborah Howard 4 The Letters of Others: The Correspondence of Marino Morosini and his Curious Newssheet on the Battle of Maclodio (1427) Franz-Julius Morche Part 2: Managing Empire 5 Venetian Citizenship and Venetian Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Twelfth to Fifteenth Century David Jacoby (z’’l) 6 “Nobili scaduti”? The Return of Cretan Patricians to Venice in the Seventeenth Century Dorit Raines Part 3: Living Empire 7 Cittadin e mercadante de lì: The Early Sixteenth-Century Sopracomito in Armata, Jacomo Siguro Marianna Kolyvà 8 The Greeks in the Maritime Trade of Venice during the Sixteenth Century: The Case of the Verghis Family Gerassimos D. Pagratis 9 Music as Aristocratic Pastime in the Stato da Mar: The Cypriot Madrigals of Giandomenico Martoretta Tassos Papacostas 10 Latins and Greeks in the Venetian Colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean Nicholas S. Davidson Part 4: Connecting Empire 11 A Device for Signalling the Height of the Tide at the Port of Venice around 1500 Reinhold C. Mueller 12 What Made a Ship Venetian? (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) Renard Gluzman 13 Jewish Medicine in Venetian Crete (Late Thirteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries): Physicians, Surgeons, and Manuscripts Giacomo Corazzol 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 Housni Alkhateeb Shehada 15 The Interpreter Michele Membrè’s Life in Venice Maria Pia Pedani (†) 16 Accounting for Gifts: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Material Circulations in Venetian-Ottoman Diplomacy E. Natalie Rothman Index
