Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, And Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean - Rilegato

Dursteler, Eric

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ISBN 10: 0801883245 ISBN 13: 9780801883248

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

With the decline of the Byzantine Empire, Venice became the dominant commercial power of the eastern Mediterranean, and even before the Muslim conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Venetians had long dealt with Muslims not only at sea but also across the long border between Venice and the Ottoman Empire. Dursteler (history, Brigham Young U.) uses a fluid and complex notion of identity to illuminate and explain Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence over the following two centuries. Some of the material has been published separately. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Recensione:

"The introduction to this book is dazzling... The Venetian community in Constantinople provides an excellent site for exploration of issues of nation and identity... [Dursteler's] overall intention -- to demonstrate cultural diversity in a place and era that has been commonly assumed to lack it -- remains firmly at the fore, and he admirably fulfills his task." -- James S. Grubb, American Historical Review

"This is a boundary-busting book... Dursteler is to be commended for this insightful and gracefully-written work that delivers a powerful message in brief compass, and will help change the way we consider European-Ottoman relations in the early modern era, and perhaps West and non-West relations in our own." -- Margaret L. King, Renaissance Quarterly

"A subtle and successful book." -- Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

"A significant contribution to new understandings of national, ethnic, and religious relations in the past, with clear explanations of common assumptions and frameworks for fluid identities and border-crossings." -- Uzi Baram, Renaissance Studies

"A rich body of interesting and colorful information... An important contribution to our understanding of the complex Mediterranean world of the early modern period." -- David Jacoby, Sixteenth Century Journal

L'autore:

Eric R Dursteler is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0801883245
• ISBN 13: 9780801883248
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 289