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History of the Adriatic
The Adriatic is ‘the small Mediterranean’ – a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea with stunning coastlines and a long history of commercial, political and cultural exchange. Silent witness to the flow of civilizations, the Adriatic is the meeting point of East and West where many empires had their frontiers and some overlapped. With Italy on one side and the Balkans on the other, the Adriatic is the area where the Latin West became intertwined with the Greek and Ottoman East. This book tells the history of the Adriatic from the first cultures of the Neolithic Age through to the present day. All of the great civilizat...
The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718
"This book developed from the proceedings of the First International Academic Conference "The Peace of Passarowitz 1718" held on 14-15 November 2008, on the occasion of the 290th Anniversary, in Pozarevac, Serbia"--Pref.
Un confine nel Mediterraneo
L’Adriatico orientale è una delle zone più complesse del Mediterraneo. Il libro propone una lettura di questo litorale: confine tra modelli di civiltà, frontiera tra Stati e religioni, un soggetto/oggetto storico di per sé ancora non compreso. Più nello specifico, si interpreta qui la faglia divisoria, il confine tra Italia e Slavia, intese come dimensioni linguistiche e di identificazione, che per secoli si sono sedimentate, confrontate e infine contrapposte sulle rive orientali dell’Adriatico. I confini orientali d’Italia sfumano tra le civiltà urbane vincolate a Venezia e l’entroterra montuoso, si confondono nella stessa Slavia adriatica, in una reciprocità che complica l’idea dello spazio culturale e nazionale omogeneo, sia italiano sia slavo. Sullo sfondo di una riflessione storiografica transnazionale, e con lo sguardo non circoscritto alle periodizzazioni tradizionali, il libro ripercorre le convivenze e le divisioni tra popolazioni, decostruisce l’idea stessa di confine, andando oltre i canoni delle storiografie coinvolte e le separazioni culturali ancora vive in queste terre mediterranee.
The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference
This book examines the production of collective “Venetian-ness” in early modern representation before turning to the portrayal of populations in Venetian Dalmatia’s borderlands, where those in metropolitan Venice began to perceive difference and imaginings of belonging began to break down.
A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797
The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including political culture, economy, religion, gender, art, literature, music, and the environment. Each chapter provides a broad but comprehensive historical and historiographical overview of the current state and future directions of research. The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 represents a new point of reference for the next generation of students of early modern Venetian studies, as well as more broadly for scholars work...
The Battle for Central Europe
In The Battle for Central Europe specialists in sixteenth-century Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian history provide the most comprehensive picture possible of a battle that determined the fate of Central Europe for centuries. Not only the siege and the death of its main protagonists are discussed, but also the wider context of the imperial rivalry and the empire buildings of the competing great powers of that age. Contributors include Gábor Ágoston, János B. Szabó, Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, Günhan Börekçi, Feridun M. Emecen, Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra, István Fazekas, Pál Fodor, Klára Hegyi, Colin Imber, Damir Karbić, József Kelenik, Zoltán Korpás, Tijana Krstić, Nenad Moačanin, Gülru Neci̇poğlu, Erol Özvar, Géza Pálffy, Norbert Pap, Peter Rauscher, Claudia Römer, Arno Strohmeyer, Zeynep Tarım, James D. Tracy, Gábor Tüskés, Szabolcs Varga, Nicolas Vatin.
Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic
Innovative study re-positioning the Adriatic as a liminal region between different cultures and faiths before the heyday of Venice.
Identity(ies)
At a time when the world watches in horror the unfolding drama of millions of refugees and the anxiety of identity figures prominently among globalization’s many side effects, this is certainly a very timely book, with contributions that address the momentous issues at hand in ways that are not just varied but also surprisingly illuminating. It seems only appropriate that the book starts and ends (“Whoever is not Greek is a barbarian”; “The Women of the Other and us”) with well contextualized, historical / theoretical reflexions on the unfailingly self-serving construction and ultimate appropriation of “the other”, be it the supposedly inarticulate savage of neighboring barbarian shores or the haunting background presence of Arab women - the barely acknowledged half of the West’s reified “Rest”. ln fact, although the chronological distance between the two historical moments is such as to discourage hasty generalizations, the continuities and the potential relevance are just too striking to be ignored.
Decoding Debate in the Venetian Senate
This book uncovers a long-lost classification mechanism for analysing the Deliberazioni, secretive records of the medieval Venetian Senate. Using Albanian cities as a case study, the book helps identify unspoken state priorities during a transformative decade for Venice.
