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.
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).
“… 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)
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