Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400-1700 : Essays in Honour of Benjamin Arbel (Medieval Mediterranean)

Christ, Georg (EDT)/ Morche, Franz-Julius (EDT)

Brill（2020/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 484 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004427600
• DDC分類 945.306

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This book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400-1700). Against the backdrop of the controversial notion of the Venetian realm as a colonial empire, essays from a range of specialists examine how Venice negotiated control over the territories, resources, and traditions of different empires (Byzantine, Roman, Mamluk, Ottoman) while developing its own claims of authority. Focusing in particular on questions of belonging and status in the Venetian overseas territories, the volume incorporates observations on the daily realities of Venetian rule: how did Venice negotiate claims of authority in light of former and ongoing imperial belongings? What was the status of colonial subjects and ships in the metropolis and in foreign territories? In what ways did Venice accept and continue old forms of imperial belonging? Did subordinate entities join in a shared communal identity? The volume opens new perspectives on Venetian rule at the crossroads of empire and early modern statehood: a polity negotiating and entangling empire.

Contributors are Housni Alkhateeb Shehada, Georg Christ, Giacomo Corazzol, Nicholas Davidson, Renard Gluzman, Deborah Howard, David Jacoby (z''l), Marianna Kolyvà, Franz-Julius Morche, Reinhold C. Mueller, Monique O'Connell, Gerassimos D. Pagratis, Tassos Papacostas, Maria Pia Pedani (†), Dorit Raines, and E. Natalie Rothman.

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