Mediterranean Encounters

Author : Fariba Zarinebaf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520964310

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Mediterranean Encounters by Fariba Zarinebaf Pdf

Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters within the institution of ahdnames (commercial and diplomatic treaties), this thoughtful book offers a critical perspective on the existing scholarship. For too long, the Ottoman empire has been defined as an absolutist military power driven by religious conviction, culturally and politically apart from the rest of Europe, and devoid of a commercial policy. By taking a close look at Galata, Fariba Zarinebaf provides a different approach based on a history of commerce, coexistence, competition, and collaboration through the lens of Ottoman legal records, diplomatic correspondence, and petitions. She shows that this port was just as cosmopolitan and pluralist as any large European port and argues that the Ottoman world was not peripheral to European modernity but very much part of it.

Author : Michela Ardizzoni,Valerio Ferme
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498528092

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Mediterranean Encounters in the City by Michela Ardizzoni,Valerio Ferme Pdf

This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape. The chapters in this book provide a broad and comprehensive investigation of the ways in which recent cultural productions have framed and re-imagined the Mediterranean city as a locus of departures, arrivals and contested belonging.

Author : Elisabeth A. Fraser
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0271085061

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Mediterranean Encounters by Elisabeth A. Fraser Pdf

Focusing on travel images and cross-cultural exchange, examines interactions between the Ottoman Empire and Europeans from 1774 to 1839, highlighting mutual dependence and reciprocity.

Author : Ruth F. Davis,Brian Oberlander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000467376

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Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads by Ruth F. Davis,Brian Oberlander Pdf

Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively, the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters, bringing the diverse cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East into new and challenging forms of contact. Individually, the chapters offer detailed ethnographic and historiographic studies of music’s multifaceted roles in such interactions. From collaborations between Moroccan migrant and Spanish Muslim convert musicians in Granada, to the incorporation of West African sonorities and Hasidic melodies in the musical liturgy of Abu Ghosh Abbey, Jerusalem, these communities sing, play, dance, listen, and record their diverse experiences of encounter at the Mediterranean crossroads.

Author : David Jacoby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000947441

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Latins, Greeks and Muslims: Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean, 10th-15th Centuries by David Jacoby Pdf

Trade, shipping, military conquest, migration and settlement in the eastern Mediterranean of the 10th-15th centuries generated multiple encounters between states, social and 'national' groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world. The nature of these encounters varied widely, depending on whether they were the result of cooperation, rivalry or clashes between states, the outcome of Latin conquest, which altered the social and legal status of indigenous subjects, or the result of economic activity. They had wide-ranging social and economic repercussions, and shaped both individual and collective perceptions and attitudes. These often differed, depending upon 'nationality', standing within the dominant or subject social strata, or purely economic considerations. In any event, at the individual level common economic interests transcended collective 'national' and cultural boundaries, except in times of crisis. The studies in this latest collection by David Jacoby explore the multiple facets of these eastern Mediterranean encounters and their impact upon individual economic activities, with special attention to the 'other', outsiders in foreign environments, foreign privileged versus indigenous traders, the link between governmental intervention, 'naturalization', and fiscal status, as well as the interaction between markets and peasants.

Author : Mladen Popović,Myles Schoonover,Marijn Vandenberghe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004336919

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Jewish Cultural Encounters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern World by Mladen Popović,Myles Schoonover,Marijn Vandenberghe Pdf

Taking the flexible concept of “cultural encounter” as a starting point, this volume presents a variety of studies which focus on the impact of encounters between cultures, groups, and individuals as it relates to ancient Jewish religion, culture, and society.

Author : G. Tarantino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 8883417925

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Encounters at Sea: Paper, Objects and Sentiments in Motion Across the Mediterranean. An Intellectual Journey Through the Collections of the Riccardiana Library in Florence by G. Tarantino Pdf

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UCSC:32106019176376

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Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious, Political, 1100-1550 by David Abulafia Pdf

Abulafia, in this collection of previously published essays (in English, Spanish, and Italian), focuses on the ways in which political developments and economic ones influence one another. The essays consider trade between Christians and Muslims in the 12th century, particularly between Spain and North Africa, in the Crusader States, the city of Ancona, Italy, and in the trade of the industrial arts. Subsequent sections consider the Italians' and Iberians' contribution to trade in the 13th through 15th centuries; the Kingdoms of Sicily and Naples, with an essay on the place in these kingdoms of Jews and Muslims; and the political convulsions that followed the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

Author : Michael Dietler,Carolina López-Ruiz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226148489

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Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia by Michael Dietler,Carolina López-Ruiz Pdf

During the first millennium BCE, complex encounters of Phoenician and Greek colonists with natives of the Iberian Peninsula transformed the region and influenced the entire history of the Mediterranean. One of the first books on these encounters to appear in English, this volume brings together a multinational group of contributors to explore ancient Iberia’s colonies and indigenous societies, as well as the comparative study of colonialism. These scholars—from a range of disciplines including classics, history, anthropology, and archaeology—address such topics as trade and consumption, changing urban landscapes, cultural transformations, and the ways in which these issues played out in the Greek and Phoenician imaginations. Situating ancient Iberia within Mediterranean colonial history and establishing a theoretical framework for approaching encounters between colonists and natives, these studies exemplify the new intellectual vistas opened by the engagement of colonial studies with Iberian history.

Author : Stephen Ortega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317089209

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Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Stephen Ortega Pdf

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman Muslims who came to Venice and its outlying territories, and using sources in Italian, Turkish and Spanish, this study examines the different types of power relations and the social geographies that framed the encounters of Muslim travelers. While Stephen Ortega does not dismiss the idea that Venetians and Ottoman Muslims represented two distinct communities, he does argue that Christian and Muslim exchange in the pre-modern period involved integrated cultural, economic, political and social practices. Ortega's investigation brings to light how merchants, trade brokers, diplomats, informants, converts, wayward souls and government officials from different communities engaged in similar practices and used comparable negotiation tactics in matters ranging from trade disputes, to the rights of male family members, to guarantees of protection. In relying on sources from archives in Venice, Istanbul and Simancas, the book demonstrates the importance of viewing Mediterranean history from a variety of perspectives, and it emphasizes the importance of understanding cross-cultural history as a negotiation between different social, cultural and institutional actors.

Author : Ozlem Caykent,Luca Zavagno
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857726865

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The Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean by Ozlem Caykent,Luca Zavagno Pdf

The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses Italy, France and Greece, a history of this sea is a new and vital way of understanding the history of the societies which have flourished in the region. The Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean charts the story of the water as both connector and border, and analyses the islands role in world history. Covering Mehmed II's efforts to conquer the old Roman Empire, through to the claims of Rhodes and the role of the Aegean Islands in Ottoman international relations, to the British in Cyprus and the present-day tensions, this book's interconnected essays from leading scholars form a tapestry of knowledge. Together, they represent a new frontier in the way in which we look at sea histories. This will become essential reading for scholars of History, International Relations, Trade and Migration.

Author : Michael Mewshaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780743213073

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PLAYING AWAY by Michael Mewshaw Pdf

From Simon & Schuster, Playing Away is Michael Mewshaw's experience on Roman holidays as well as other Mediterranean encounters. Playing Away includes a wide variety of chapters, including ones on traveling by train, enjoying summertime and alfresco living, the unique aspects of the different Mediterranean cities, and much more about exploring this magic region.

Author : Peter van Dommelen,A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136903458

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Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean by Peter van Dommelen,A. Bernard Knapp Pdf

Material Connections eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a new cultural and historical understanding of how factors such as mobility, materiality, conflict and co-presence impacted on the formation of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Fighting against ‘hyper-specialisation’ within the subject area, it explores the multiple ways that material culture was used to establish, maintain and alter identities, especially during periods of transition, culture encounter and change. A new perspective is adopted, one that perceives the use of material culture by prehistoric and historic Mediterranean peoples in formulating and changing their identities. It considers how objects and social identities are entangled in various cultural encounters and interconnections. The movement of people as well as objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the courses and process of human history. The Mediterranean offers a wealth of such information and Material Connections, expanding on this base, offers a dynamic, new subject of enquiry – the social identify of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean people – and considers how migration, colonial encounters, and connectivity or insularity influence social identities. The volume includes a series of innovative, closely related case studies that examine the contacts amongst various Mediterranean islands – Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, the Balearics – and the nearby shores of Italy, Greece, North Africa, Spain and the Levant to explore the social and cultural impact of migratory, colonial and exchange encounters. Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential for those wishing to develop their understanding of material culture and identity in the Mediterranean.

Author : Vanessa Grotti,Marc Brightman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 303056584X

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Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean by Vanessa Grotti,Marc Brightman Pdf

This book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. Anthropology has revisited the concept of hospitality in recent years, particularly through perspectives of ethnographers of the Mediterranean, who ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary practices for dead strangers. The volume makes no pretension to attempt to define a distinctive Mediterranean hospitality, but rather it seeks to explore the rich potential of the concept of hospitality to illuminate the spatial and scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant reception.

Author : W. V. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191548864

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Rethinking the Mediterranean by W. V. Harris Pdf

In this collection of essays, an international group of renowned scholars attempt to establish the theoretical basis for studying the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it. In so doing they range far afield to other Mediterraneans, real and imaginary, as distant as Brazil and Japan. Their work is an essential tool for understanding the Mediterranean, pre-modern and modern alike. It speaks to ancient and medieval historians, to archaeologists, anthropologists and all historians with environmental interests, and not least to classicists.