Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400-1700

Essays in Honour of Benjamin Arbel
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42760-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 122, 484 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Christ, Georg

Morche, Franz-Julius

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Georg Christ, Dr. phil. (2006), Universität Basel, is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. His research focuses i.a. on the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Veneto-Mamluk trade and political relations.

Franz-Julius Morche, Dr. phil. (2013), Universität Heidelberg, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of History, Durham University. He was previously a member of the ERC research team “Communication and Empire: Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective” at King’s College London and Leiden University.