Housni Alkhateeb Shehada
teaches Classical and Modern Arabic Literature, Islamic history, and History of Art at Levinsky College (Tel Aviv), and Ben Gurion University (Beer-Sheba). His publications include: Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam (Leiden: Brill, 2012); âDonkeys and Mules in Arabic Veterinary Sources from the Mamluk Period (13thâ16th Centuries)â (Al-MasÄq, XX/2, 2008); âArabic Veterinary Medicine and the âGolden Rulesâ for Veterinarians According to a Sixteenth-Century Medical Treatise,â in Animals and People in the Ottoman Empire, ed. S. Faroqhi (Istanbul: Eren, 2010). Other publications include several articles on Palestinian art, as well as two books of Arabic poetry.
Georg Christ
is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. His research mainly focuses on the late medieval eastern Mediterranean and Veneto-Mamluk relations. He currently prepares a monograph on Venetian and Mamluk naval and commercial policies in the 14th century.
Giacomo Corazzol
is currently ingénieur de recherche at the Institut de recherche et dâhistoire des textes (IRHT), CNRS, Paris. His fields of research include the history and literature of Romaniote Jews (and particularly Crete), Jewish historiography, and Christian kabbalah in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
Nicholas S. Davidson
is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. His research and publications have focused mainly on the social, cultural, and religious history of Renaissance and early modern Italy, and on the history of Catholicism as a global religion. He has also worked on European intellectual history, on the history of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, and on the consequences of the increased contact between Western Europeans and other cultures in the same period.
Renard Gluzman
obtained his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 2018 and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History at the University of Haifa. His fields of research include Venetian shipping, shipwrecks,
Deborah Howard
is Professor Emerita of Architectural History in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art in the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of St Johnâs College. Her principal research interests include the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance; and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean. She was one of the leaders of a four-year interdisciplinary research project entitled Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home 1400â1600, funded by an ERC Synergy Grant (2013â17).
David Jacoby zââl
was Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He published extensively on intercultural exchange and maritime trade between the West and Byzantium, the Crusader states, and Egypt in the 11thâ15th centuries, as well as on medieval silk production and trade and the Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. His last collections of studies include: Travellers, Merchants and Settlers across the Mediterranean, Eleventh-Fourteenth Centuries (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), and Medieval Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).
Marianna KolyvÃ
obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology) and is Professor of Archival Sciences at the Ionian University in Corfu. She was director of the General State Archive and professor at the Hellenic Open University of Greece. In 1972â1975 she was a Research Fellow at the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice. Her publications include numerous studies on Veniceâs overseas dominions, with special emphasis on Venetian Zakynthos (Zante), as well as works on archival sciences, including two volumes dedicated to this field (2009, 2011).
Franz-Julius Morche
is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of History, Durham University. He gained his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg, where he was a member of the research team Trading Diasporas: Transcultural Agency, Religious Bans and Illicit Trade in the Eastern
Reinhold C. Mueller
obtained his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 1969. After teaching several years in the United States in the 1970s, lastly at the University of Arizona, Tucson, he joined the Department of Historical Studies at the Caâ Foscari University of Venice in 1979, where he taught Medieval Social and Economic History until his retirement in 2008. His publications deal with such themes as the Procuratori di San Marco, Venetian money, banking, and the public debt, the plague and its effects, Jews, foreigners, immigration and citizenship.
Monique OâConnell
is Professor of History and chair of the Department of History at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Veniceâs Maritime State (2009) and The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon (2016, co-author Eric Dursteler). She has held fellowships at Villa I Tatti, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Newberry Library and from the NEH, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Renaissance Society of America. She is currently the project editor of Rulers of Venice (rulersofvenice.org). She has written on the politics, ideology, and communicative strategies of Venetian empire and the memorialization of conspiracy and revolt in Venetian historical writing.
Gerassimos D. Pagratis
was born in Corfu in 1970. He studied in Italy (University of Lecce) and Greece (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). In 2001 he received his Ph.D. from the History Department of the Ionian University (Corfu) with a thesis entitled âMaritime Trade in Venetian-Ruled Corfu (1496â1538)â; He was Adjunct Lecturer of Maritime History in the Department of Shipping, Trade & Transport of the University of the Aegean (2001â2004). Today he is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Athens where he teaches courses in the late medieval and early modern history of Italy and the history of the Venetian Republic.
Tassos Papacostas
is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine material culture at Kingâs College London. After a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford on the archaeology of Byzantine Cyprus (2000) and a Past and Present Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute
Maria Pia Pedani (â )
graduated in Foreign Languages at Caâ Foscari University of Venice, in Humanities at Trieste University, and obtained her Ph.D. in History from Szeged University. She worked in the Venetian States Archives from 1979 to 1999, when she became Professor of the History of Islamic Countries at Caâ Foscari University, Venice. Until her death in 2019, Prof. Pedani published seven books and many articles, mostly dealing with the Ottoman Empire and its relations with Venice, as well as several literary works.
Dorit Raines
is an Associate professor at the Caâ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches History of Libraries, History of Documents, Archival Science and Digital Humanities. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the Ãcole des Hautes Ãtudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is mainly interested in the social and cultural formation of elite groups, especially the Venetian patriciate.
E. Natalie Rothman
is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, studying the history of Venetian-Ottoman cultural mediation in the early modern period, diplomatic translation and translators, the genealogies of Orientalism, and digital history. She is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Royal Society of Canadaâs College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Rothman is the author of several articles and a multiple award-winning book, Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2011). Her second monograph (and companion website), The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism is forthcoming from Cornell University Press.