Dalmatia between Ottoman and Venetian Rule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dalmatia between Ottoman and Venetian Rule write by Tea Mayhew. This book was released on 2013-11-27T00:00:00+01:00. Dalmatia between Ottoman and Venetian Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book gives an overview of the crucial events that took place during the passage from the Ottoman to the Venetian rules in the Dalmatian hinterland during the Candian and Morean Wars in the second half of the 17th century. The hinterland of the capital city of the Venetian dual province of Dalmatia and Albania – the city of Zadar/Zara – has been used here as a case study to depict all the changes relating to: inhabitation, the appearance of settlements, changes in the populations and migrations, the forms and models of administrative and political institutions, specific border economies and the development of Venetian border areas through trade with the Ottomans alongside agriculture in the contado. Studied here is how the city of Zadar, whose life was organised as a typical coastal community like many in the Venetian Republic along with its contado, managed to enlarge its territory and incorporate elements of Ottoman political, administrative and cultural heritage along with thousands of Ottoman Christian subjects.
State and Society in the Balkans Before and After Establishment of Ottoman Rule
State and Society in the Balkans Before and After Establishment of Ottoman Rule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State and Society in the Balkans Before and After Establishment of Ottoman Rule write by . This book was released on 2017-02-17. State and Society in the Balkans Before and After Establishment of Ottoman Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference
The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference write by Karen-edis Barzman. This book was released on 2017-04-18. The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and decapitation bore a heavy burden in this regard, given as indices of an arbitrary violence ascribed to Venice’s long-time adversary, “the infidel Turk.” The book also addresses the recuperation of violence in Venetian discourse about maintaining civic order and waging crusade. Finally, it examines mobile populations operating in the porous limits between Venetian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia and the distinctions they disrupted between “Venetian” and “Turk” until their settlement on farmland of the Venetian state. This occurred in the eighteenth century with the closing of the borderlands, thresholds of difference against which early modern “Venetian-ness” was repeatedly measured and affirmed.
Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean write by Claire Norton. This book was released on 2017-02-03. Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources, however, suggests that religious conversion between Christianity, Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in this volume do not view religion simply as a specific set of orthodox beliefs and strict practices to be adopted wholesale by the religious individual or convert. Rather, they analyze conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent social practices, which facilitated the process of social, political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, the volume examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and translator between cultures. Drawing upon a diverse range of research areas and linguistic skills, the volume utilises primary sources in Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, Latin, German, Hungarian and English within a variety of genres including religious tracts, diplomatic correspondence, personal memoirs, apologetics, historical narratives, official documents and commands, legal texts and court records, and religious polemics. As a result, the collection provides readers with theoretically informed, new research on the subject of conversion to or from Islam in the early modern Mediterranean world.
The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History
The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History write by John R. Lampe. This book was released on 2020-10-19. The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe. It gathers 47 international scholars and researchers from the region. They stand back from the premodern claims and recent controversies stirred by the wars of Yugoslavia’s dissolution. Parts I and II explore shifting early modern divisions among three empires to the national movements and independent states that intruded with Great Power intervention on Ottoman and Habsburg territory in the nineteenth century. Part III traces a full decade of war centered on the First World War, with forced migrations rivalling the great loss of life. Part IV addresses the interwar promise and the later authoritarian politics of five newly independent states: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Separate attention is paid in Part V to the spread of European economic and social features that had begun in the nineteenth century. The Second World War again cost the region dearly in death and destruction and, as noted in Part VI, in interethnic violence. A final set of chapters in Part VII examines postwar and Cold War experiences that varied among the four Communist regimes as well as for non-Communist Greece. Lastly, a brief Epilogue takes the narrative past 1989 into the uncertainties that persist in Yugoslavia’s successor states and its neighbors. Providing fresh analysis from recent scholarship, the brief and accessible chapters of the Handbook address the general reader as well as students and scholars. For further study, each chapter includes a short list of selected readings.
