The Renaissance and The Ottoman World

摘要

This richly-illustrated volume brings together studies on a variety of cross-cultural interactions that took place in the Mediterranean region during the Renaissance. The focus is primarily on Venice and the Italian states, but also ranges more widely, away from that sea. In her framing chapter, historian Claire Norton reminds us of the common Graeco-Byzantine heritage of Mediterranean societies, and surveys the body of evidence we already possess that indicates how anachronistic is the mode of enquiry that unreflexively posits separate, and opposed, Muslim and Christian worlds. She writes that a new research model is long overdue, one that enables exploration of how similar cultural, economic, political and military developments were received within a shared geopolitical space.