Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
288 pages
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illustrations
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9-3/5 x 6-2/5
Was there a distinctive Mediterranean urban culture in the early modern period? In this collection, a team of international scholars from a wide range of disciplines use a variety of approaches - literary, art-historical, cultural, social and economic - to demonstrate both the range of collective urban experience in the Mediterranean and the complexity of the nature of urban culture at that time.
The book, after an Introduction by the editor, is divided into three sections: neighbours and neighbourhoods; religion, ethnicity and minority groups; culture, politics and society. The coherence of the collection sets up resonances and comparisons which confirm a considerable unity in the concept of Mediterranean urban culture in its broadest sense.
Urban History
“this is a useful collection of discrete essays in which almost everyone has something new to say which will be of interest to readers of this journal.” –Urban History, Vol. 28:3, 2001
Contents
Part 1
Neighbours and neighbourhoods: the myth of the Mediterranean city - perceptions of sociability
James Amelang
Neighbourhoods and local loyalties in Renaissance Venice
Joseph Wheeler
Part 2
Religion, ethnicity and minority groups: foreigners and the city - the case of the immigrant merchant
Alexander Cowan
The Jews and the city in the Mediterranean area
Donatella Calabi
The culture of the street - the Calle de la Feria in Cordoba, 1470-1520
John Edwards
Between heresy and free thought, between the Mediterranean and the North - heterodox women in 17th century Venice
Federica Ambrosini
Part 3
On the margins: the cities of Puglia in the 15th and 16th centuries - their economy and society
Eleni Sakellariou
Economic conditions in Thessaloniki between the two Ottoman occupations
Alan Harvey
Venetian Modon and its port (1358-1500)
Ruth Gertwagen
Part 4
Cultural representations: the port towns of the Levant in 16th-century travel literature
Benjamin Arbel
The cultural dynamics of representational space in Venetian Renaissance painting
Tom Nichols
"As much for its culture as for its aims" - the cultural relations of Venice and its dependant cities, 1400-1700
Nicholas Davidson
Neighbours and neighbourhoods: the myth of the Mediterranean city - perceptions of sociability
James Amelang
Neighbourhoods and local loyalties in Renaissance Venice
Joseph Wheeler
Part 2
Religion, ethnicity and minority groups: foreigners and the city - the case of the immigrant merchant
Alexander Cowan
The Jews and the city in the Mediterranean area
Donatella Calabi
The culture of the street - the Calle de la Feria in Cordoba, 1470-1520
John Edwards
Between heresy and free thought, between the Mediterranean and the North - heterodox women in 17th century Venice
Federica Ambrosini
Part 3
On the margins: the cities of Puglia in the 15th and 16th centuries - their economy and society
Eleni Sakellariou
Economic conditions in Thessaloniki between the two Ottoman occupations
Alan Harvey
Venetian Modon and its port (1358-1500)
Ruth Gertwagen
Part 4
Cultural representations: the port towns of the Levant in 16th-century travel literature
Benjamin Arbel
The cultural dynamics of representational space in Venetian Renaissance painting
Tom Nichols
"As much for its culture as for its aims" - the cultural relations of Venice and its dependant cities, 1400-1700
Nicholas Davidson
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