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Cover illustration: Detail of the Fra Mauro world map, made around 1450 by the Italian cartographer Fra Mauro. With kind permission of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia.
Photograph Professor Arbel by Housni Alkhateeb Shehada
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Christ, Georg, editor. | Morche, Franz-Julius, editor. | Arbel, Benjamin, honoree.
Title: Cultures of empire : rethinking Venetian rule 1400-1700 : essays in honour of Benjamin Arbel / edited by Georg L. Christ, Franz-Julius Morche.
Other titles: Rethinking Venetian rule 1400-1700, essays in honour of Benjamin Arbel
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] | Series: The medieval Mediterranean, peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 0928-5520 ; vol. 122 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020009938 (print) | LCCN 2020009939 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004427600 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004428874 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Venice (Italy)--Relations--Mediterranean Region. | Mediterranean Region--Relations--Italy--Venice. | Venice (Italy)--Colonies--Administration. | Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797. | Venice (Italy)--History--Turkish Wars, 1453â1571. | Mediterranean Region--Ethnic relations--History.
Classification: LCC DG676.97.M43 C85 2020 (print) | LCC DG676.97.M43 (ebook) | DDC 945/.3--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009938
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009939
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