Venetians In Constantinople

Author : Eric Dursteler
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801883248

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Venetians in Constantinople by Eric Dursteler Pdf

Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common. Moving beyond the "clash of civilizations" model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople. While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible.

Author : Eric Dursteler
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801883245

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Venetians in Constantinople by Eric Dursteler Pdf

Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common. Moving beyond the "clash of civilizations" model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople. While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible.

Author : Eric R Dursteler
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801889127

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Venetians in Constantinople by Eric R Dursteler Pdf

Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common. Moving beyond the "clash of civilizations" model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople. While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible.

Author : Donald M. Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521428947

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Byzantium and Venice by Donald M. Nicol Pdf

This book, the first of this scope to have been published, traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian republic to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, especially after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141938028

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The Venetian Empire by Jan Morris Pdf

For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus. It is a traveller's book, geographically arranged but wandering at will from the past to the present, evoking not only contemporary landscapes and sensations but also the characters, the emotions and the tumultuous events of the past. The first such work ever written about the Venetian ‘Stato da Mar’, it is an invaluable historical companion for visitors to Venice itself and for travellers through the lands the Doges once ruled.

Author : John R. Melville-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Thessalonike (Greece)
ISBN : UOM:39015057602404

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Venice and Thessalonica, 1423-1430 by John R. Melville-Jones Pdf

Author : Alan Gordon
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466823105

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A Death in the Venetian Quarter by Alan Gordon Pdf

In 1203, the relative peace of the Byzantine Empire is imperiled when the ships of the Fourth Crusade show up outside the walls of Constantinople. Instead of traveling to the Holy Land to battle the infidels, the Crusade, having sailed out of Venice, has been subverted and is now besieging the city. The jester known as Feste, his wife Viola, and their compatriots within the city are faced with catastrophe as the peace the Fool's Guild has worked so hard to maintain is about to be shattered. With such a disaster looming, the death of one silk merchant in the Venetian Quarter of Constantinople seems insignificant. But Philoxenites, the Imperial Treasurer and one of the most power schemers at court, has taken a special interest in the case and wants Feste to investigate Venetian merchant's death. The merchant, of course, was not what he appeared to be and, if Constantinople is to have any hope of surviving the troops outside its gates, Feste must quickly uncover what forces were at work when the merchant lost his life.

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History of the Venetian Republic by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : Geoffroy de Villehardouin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600004009

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The chronicle ... concerning the conquest of Constantinople, by the French and Venetians, anno M.CCIV. Tr. by T. Smith by Geoffroy de Villehardouin Pdf

Author : Haris A. Kalligas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134536023

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Monemvasia by Haris A. Kalligas Pdf

This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese – Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia’s history and architecture, here explores the city’s foundation, its status as a powerful maritime centre of Byzantium, and its gradual decline after the fall of the Empire. Founded on a rock off the eastern shore of the Morea in the late sixth century A.D, Monemvasia was populated by the inhabitants of Sparta and was to become an important port. The citizens retained their ancient institutions, while they developed maritime activities, both military and commercial. The eleventh and twelfth centuries were particularly prosperous for the city, and it remained a centre of commercial activity during the last Byzantine period. When the Turks seized Byzantium, Monemvasia came first under papal and then Venetian rule and changing conditions led to its gradual decline. The Venetians handed the city over to the Turks in 1540 and returned in 1690 for a period of twenty-five years. After a second Ottoman occupation, Monemvasia was the first city to be liberated by the Greeks during the War of Independence in 1821. Using sources from all periods, along with original material based on research on the architectural and urban history of the city, Monemvasia is a comprehensive study of a unique city – a city within the Byzantine Empire which preserved institutions of municipal autonomy and self government originating from the Roman period.

Author : John B. Marsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : BL:A0026171433

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Stories of Venice and the Venetians by John B. Marsh Pdf

Author : Francis Cotterell Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : UOM:39015058474779

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Venice in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by Francis Cotterell Hodgson Pdf

Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679644262

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City of Fortune by Roger Crowley Pdf

“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. “[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page.”—The New York Times “Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice’s past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.”—The Wall Street Journal

Author : Francis Cotterell Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU56810962

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The Early History of Venice, from the Foundation to the Conquest of Constantinople, A. D. 1204 by Francis Cotterell Hodgson Pdf

Author : F. C. Hodgson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0265719089

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Venice in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by F. C. Hodgson Pdf

Excerpt from Venice in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: A Sketch of Venetian History From the Conquest of Constantinople to the Accession of Michele Steno, A. D. 1204-1400 I ought to add that what I said in the Introduction to my former book did less than justice to the great work of Romanin, which I have learnt to trust more and more. He is not a master of style, but his Storz'a Documcnz'ala is an early model, and a very good one, of the kind of history founded on original documents that is becoming every year more and more the most useful and highly appreci ated product of historical work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.