Cultures and Practices of Coexistence from the Thirteenth Through the Seventeenth Centuries (eBook, ePUB)

Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World, Volume 1
Redaktion: Folin, Marco; Musarra, Antonio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the ethnically composite nature of the Mediterranean cities and their cultural heritage. Contributors investigate the traces left by centuries of interethnic play on the urban scene of cities such as Acre and Cyprus, Genoa and Venice, Rome and Istanbul, Cordoba and Tarragona.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000174267
• Artikelnr.: 59776002

Autorenporträt

Marco Folin is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Genoa. Antonio Musarra is Researcher in Medieval History at Sapienza University of Rome.

Inhaltsangabe

Mediterranean Cities as Cultural Crossroads: An Introduction Part 1: The
Medieval City as a Cultural Crossroad 1. "A Dragon with Nine Heads": The
Changing Reputation of Crusader Acre, c. 1191-c. 1291 2. Jews in Famagusta:
Spatial and Visual Seclusion Under Italian Rule in the Levant 3. Economic
Migrants or Commuters?: A Note on the Crews of Genoese Galleys in the
Medieval Mediterranean, 14th-15th Centuries 4. The Cultural Transformation
of Genoese Galata from the Byzantine to the Ottoman Rule and its Reflection
on the Church of San Domenico Part 2: The Multi-Ethnic Dimension of Early
Modern "Metropolises" 5. Integrating the Foreigner: The Strategy of
Inclusion in Renaissance Venice 6. Polytopos in Early Modern Venetian
Imagery 7. Neighbourhoods' Surveillance of Margins: Negotiating Limits of
Social Exclusion in Early Modern Istanbul (1530s-1590s) 8. Urban Ethnic
Encounters: A Glimpse on the Different Ethnic Communities Living in an
Istanbul Neighbourhood, the Mahalle-i Mâ'mûre, in the Late 16th Century
Part 3: Mediators, Translators, Interpreters 9. The Hero of Two Worlds:
Politics, Archeology and Passion for the Antique in the "Cultural
Mediation" of Cyriac of Ancona between East and West, with a Note on the
Birth of Venus by Botticelli 10. Spanish Rome and Roman Spain:
Reconstructing the Past of Rome and Cordova in Early Modern Rome 11. The
Career of Alfonso Ulloa (1529-1570) in Early Modern Venice: A Cosmopolitan
Outlook of the 16th-Century Book Trade 12. Migration and the Continuity of
a City: Lluis Pons d'Icart's Libro de las grandezas de Tarragona (1572) 13.
Genoa in the Travel Diaries of Jehan Lhermite (1587) and Cesare Magalotti
(1625): A City from "Paradise on Earth" to "Fury of Mars"