{"product_id":"cultures-of-empire-rethinking-venetian-rule-1400-1700-essays-in-honour-of-benjamin-arbel-9789004427600","title":"Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400–1700: Essays in Honour of Benjamin Arbel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210798293335,"sku":"9789004427600","price":156.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultures-of-empire-rethinking-venetian-rule-1400-1700-essays-in-honour-of-benjamin-arbel-9789004427600","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}