Cultures and Practices of Coexistence from the Thirteenth Through the Seventeenth Centuries: Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World, Volume 1

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Mediterranean Cities as Cultural Crossroads: An Introduction -- PART I The Medieval City as a Cultural Crossroad -- 1 "A Dragon With Nine Heads": The Changing Reputation of Crusader Acre, c. 1191-c. 1291 -- 2 Jews in Famagusta: Spatial and Visual Seclusion Under Italian Rule in the Levant -- 3 Economic Migrants or Commuters? A Note on the Crews of Genoese Galleys in the Medieval Mediterranean, 14th-15th Centuries -- 4 The Cultural Transformation of Genoese Galata From the Byzantine to the Ottoman Rule and Its Reflection on the Church of San Domenico -- PART II: The Multi-Ethnic Dimension of Early Modern "Metropolises" -- 5 Integrating the Foreigner: The Strategy of Inclusion in Renaissance Venice -- 6 Polytopos in Early Modern Venetian Imagery -- 7 Neighbourhoods' Surveillance of Margins: Negotiating Limits of Social Exclusion in Early Modern Istanbul (1530s-1590s) -- 8 Urban Ethnic Encounters: A Glimpse on the Different Ethnic Communities Living in an Istanbul Neighbourhood, the Mahalle-i Mâ'mûre, in the Late 16th Century -- PART III: Mediators, Translators, Interpreters -- 9 The Hero of Two Worlds: Politics, Archeology and Passion for the Antique in the "Cultural Mediation" of Cyriac of Ancona Between East and West, With a Note on the Birth of Venus by Botticelli -- 10 Spanish Rome and Roman Spain: Reconstructing the Past of Rome and Cordova in Early Modern Rome -- 11 The Career of Alfonso Ulloa (1529-1570) in Early Modern Venice: A Cosmopolitan Outlook of the 16th-Century Book Trade -- 12 Migration and the Continuity of a City: Lluis Pons d'Icart's Libro de las grandezas de Tarragona (1572).