Molly Greene

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A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern MediterraneanPaperback, 31 March 2002

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Part of Series
Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Part of Series
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern
Part of Series
Modern Greek Studies
Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
31 Mar 2002
ISBN-10
0691095426
ISBN-13
9780691095424

Description

Here Molly Greene moves beyond the hostile "Christian" versus "Muslim" divide that has colored many historical interpretations of the early modern Mediterranean, and reveals a society with a far richer set of cultural and social dynamics. She focuses on Crete, which the Ottoman Empire wrested from Venetian control in 1669. Historians of Europe have traditionally viewed the victory as a watershed, the final step in the Muslim conquest of the eastern Mediterranean and the obliteration of Crete's thriving Latin-based culture. But to what extent did the conquest actually change life on Crete? Greene brings a new perspective to bear on this episode, and on the eastern Mediterranean in general. She argues that no sharp divide separated the Venetian and Ottoman eras because the Cretans were already part of a world where Latin Christians, Muslims, and Eastern Orthodox Christians had been intermingling for several centuries, particularly in the area of commerce.

Greene also notes that the Ottoman conquest of Crete represented not only the extension of Muslim rule to an island that once belonged to a Christian power, but also the strengthening of Eastern Orthodoxy at the expense of Latin Christianity, and ultimately the Orthodox reconquest of the eastern Mediterranean. Greene concludes that despite their religious differences, both the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire represented the ancien régime in the Mediterranean, which accounts for numerous similarities between Venetian and Ottoman Crete. The true push for change in the region would come later from Northern Europe.

Product Details

Author:
Molly Greene
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 March 2002
Dimensions:
23.83 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
0691095426
ISBN-13:
9780691095424
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
248
Weight:
353.8 gm

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