Tolerance Re-Shaped in the Early-Modern Mediterranean Borderlands

Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri is Marie Curie Global Fellow at ISEM-CNR (Italy) and the University of Maryland.

• Introduction Part I: Toleration Before Tolerance and the Endurance of the Other: Narrations of Cultural Diversity and the Transfer of New Perspectives 1. Swinging or Suspended Minds?: Cultural and Methodological Approaches to Diversity in the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries 2. Venezia, Finestra d’Oriente: The Venetian Stamperia Pittoni and the Spreading of Information from the East 3. Traveling Ego and Physical Engagements: Italian Travelers Dealing with Ottomans Part II : Imperial Pragmatism, Minorities’ Weakness and Hybridization of Thought: Levantinization and the City of Izmir 4. A Chance for Diversity: Infidel Izmir and Ottoman Tolerance 5. From Weakness to Laissez-faire: Competition and Acceptance in the 17th-18th Century Catholic Mission of Izmir 6. Hybridizing Minds: The Levantinization of the Catholic Community of Izmir Part III: Playing the Role of the Besieged Fortress, Sharing the Same Inter-Mediterranean Codes: Malta and the Familiarity of the Enemy 7. Another Kind of Border-Space: Fortified Malta in One Hundred Years of Travel Narrative (Late 17th and Late 18th Centuries) 8. In a World of News: The Flux of Early Modern Mediterranean Information and the Maltese Mindset 9. When the Crescent Became Delicatessen: Change in the Perception of the Other and Connected Destinies in Early 18th-Century Malta. Conclusion