Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400–1700

Essays in Honour of Benjamin Arbel

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Volume Editors:
Georg Christ
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Franz-Julius Morche
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.
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2020
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Front Matter
Copyright Page
Preface
Figures
Benjamin Arbel: A Biographical Sketch
Bibliography Benjamin Arbel
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 1 Building Empire
Chapter 2 Venetian Empire in Oratory and Print in the Later Fifteenth Century
Chapter 3 The Old, the Antique, and the Venerable in Venetian Renaissance Architecture
Chapter 4 The Letters of Others: Marino Morosini and His Curious Newssheet on the Battle of Maclodio (1427)
Part 2 Managing Empire
Chapter 5 Venetian Citizenship and Venetian Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Twelfth to Fifteenth Century
Chapter 6 “Nobili scaduti”? The Return of Cretan Patricians to Venice in the Seventeenth Century
Part 3 Living Empire
Chapter 7 Cittadin e mercadante de lì: The Early Sixteenth-Century Sopracomito in Armata, Jacomo Siguro
Chapter 8 The Greeks in the Maritime Trade of Venice during the Sixteenth Century: The Case of the Verghis Family
Chapter 9 Music as Aristocratic Pastime in the Stato da Mar: The Cypriot Madrigals of Giandomenico Martoretta
Chapter 10 Latins and Greeks in the Venetian Colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean
Part 4 Connecting Empire
Chapter 11 A Device for Signalling the Height of the Tide at the Port of Venice around 1500
Chapter 12 What Made a Ship Venetian? (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Chapter 13 Jewish Medicine in Venetian Crete (Late Thirteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries): Physicians, Surgeons, and Manuscripts
Part 5 Donating Empire
Chapter 14 From the Far North to the Near East: Venice as an Intermediary in the Supply of Gyrfalcons to the Mamluks
Chapter 15 The Interpreter Michele Membrè’s Life in Venice
Chapter 16 Accounting for Gifts: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Material Circulations in Venetian-Ottoman Diplomacy
Back Matter
Index
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.
  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
Scholars interested in the history of Venice and the eastern Mediterranean; more generally, in the late medieval and early modern periods; and in pre-modern empires and colonial rule.
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