Venetians in Constantinople

Eric R Dursteler

ISBN 10: 0801891051 / ISBN 13: 9780801891052

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, US, 2008

The introduction to this book is dazzling .The Venetian community in Constantinople provides an excellent site for exploration of issues of nation and identity .[Dursteler's] overall intention-to demonstrate cultural diversity in a place and era that has been commonly assumed to lack it-remains firmly at the fore, and he admirably fulfills his task. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9780801891052

Inhaltsangabe:

Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common.

Moving beyond the "clash of civilizations" model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople.

While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Eric R Dursteler is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Venetians in Constantinople
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, US
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New