Scattered about the city : Ottoman networks and attempts to control them Negotiating with the Venetian bureaucracy : paths of integration Moving across boundaries Projecting Ottoman power A Mediterranean conflict : alliances, factions and networks.
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman M…
"In an elegant and graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment…