Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Alexander Cowan is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northumbria, and a member of the University's research group for European Urban Culture. He has written extensively on Venetian social history and is the author of Urban Europe, 1500-1700 (Edward Arnold).

Reviews

“… 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, No. 3, 2001) “. . . this collection is an eclectic assemblage of studies of various aspects of Mediterranean history, based on a number of urban centers – principally in the Italian peninsular, and predominantly Venice… This collection contains fascinating material and its authors address key issues in early modern social, . . . economic, . . . and religious history . . . as well as in cultural history traditionally defined.” (JEMH, Vol. 6, No. 4)