Title A shared world : Christians and Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean / Molly Greene

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations, map, plan Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for A shared world : Christians and Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean / Molly Greene. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- List of Illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- Note on Transliteration xiii -- Introduction 3 -- One The Last Conquest 13 -- Two A Difficult Island 45 -- Three Ottoman Candia 78 -- Four Between Wine and Olive Oil 110 -- Five Merchants of Candia 141 -- Six The Slow Death of the Ancicn Regime 174 -- Condusion 206 -- Bibliography 211 -- Index 223 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Crete (Greece) History Venetian rule, 1204-1669 Influence, Crete (Greece) History Turkish rule, 1669-1898, Middle East Civilization, Mediterranean Region Civilization Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed November 9, 2016) Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Civilization -- Historiography Civilization -- Religious aspects Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) SUBJECT Crete (Greece) -- History -- Venetian rule, 1204-1669 -- Influence Crete (Greece) -- History -- Turkish rule, 1669-1898. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88006864 Middle East -- Civilization -- Religious aspects Mediterranean Region -- Civilization -- Historiography Subject Greece -- Crete Mediterranean Region Middle East Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0691008981 9780691008981 1400844495 9781400844494 0691095426 9780691095424

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