Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400–1700

Georg Christ, Dr. phil. (2006), Universität Basel, is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. His research focuses i.a. on the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Veneto-Mamluk trade and political relations.Franz-Julius Morche, Dr. phil. (2013), Universität Heidelberg, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of History, Durham University. He was previously a member of the ERC research team “Communication and Empire: Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective” at King’s College London and Leiden University.

• PrefaceList of FiguresBenjamin Arbel: A Biographical SketchGeorg Christ, Renard GluzmanBibliography Benjamin ArbelNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionGeorg Christ, Franz-Julius MorchePart 1: Building Empire2 Venetian Empire in Oratory and Print in the Later Fifteenth CenturyMonique O’Connell3 The Old, the Antique, and the Venerable in Venetian Renaissance ArchitectureDeborah Howard4 The Letters of Others: The Correspondence of Marino Morosini and his Curious Newssheet on the Battle of Maclodio (1427)Franz-Julius MorchePart 2: Managing Empire5 Venetian Citizenship and Venetian Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Twelfth to Fifteenth CenturyDavid Jacoby (z’’l)6 “Nobili scaduti”? The Return of Cretan Patricians to Venice in the Seventeenth CenturyDorit RainesPart 3: Living Empire7 Cittadin e mercadante de lì: The Early Sixteenth-Century Sopracomito in Armata, Jacomo SiguroMarianna Kolyvà8 The Greeks in the Maritime Trade of Venice during the Sixteenth Century: The Case of the Verghis FamilyGerassimos D. Pagratis9 Music as Aristocratic Pastime in the Stato da Mar: The Cypriot Madrigals of Giandomenico MartorettaTassos Papacostas10 Latins and Greeks in the Venetian Colonies of the Eastern MediterraneanNicholas S. DavidsonPart 4: Connecting Empire11 A Device for Signalling the Height of the Tide at the Port of Venice around 1500Reinhold C. Mueller12 What Made a Ship Venetian? (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)Renard Gluzman13 Jewish Medicine in Venetian Crete (Late Thirteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries): Physicians, Surgeons, and ManuscriptsGiacomo CorazzolPart 5: Donating Empire14 From the Far North to the Near East: Venice as an Intermediary in the Supply of Gyrfalcons to the MamluksHousni Alkhateeb Shehada15 The Interpreter Michele Membrè’s Life in VeniceMaria Pia Pedani (†)16 Accounting for Gifts: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Material Circulations in Venetian-Ottoman DiplomacyE. Natalie RothmanIndex