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Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-century Mediterranean World

Door Noel Malcolm

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#419865-VH14
Titel	Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-century Mediterranean World
Auteur	Malcolm, Noel
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Penguin Press
Jaar van uitgave	2016
ISBN10	0141978376
ISBN13	9780141978376
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations (including photographs) in colour, 8vo.
Samenvatting	"In this fascinating and intimate look at the borderland between East and West--Venetian Italy and Ottoman Albania--distinguished historian Sir Noel Malcolm brings to life not a clash of civilizations so much as their fascinating and nuanced interdigitation. In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a treatise on the main European province of the Ottoman Empire concerning his country's place in the empire. Using that text as a point of departure, Malcolm's Agents of Empire explores and evokes the lives of an eminent Venetian-Albanian family and its paths through the eastern Mediterranean. The family includes an archbishop in the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at Lepanto, the power behind the throne in the Ottoman province of Moldavia,... (Lees verder) and a dragoman (interpreter) at the Porte. Malcolm uses the family's collective biography as a framework on which to build a broader account of East-West relations and interactions in this period. In doing so, he sheds light new light on the interrelations between the Christian and Ottoman worlds, illuminating subjects as diverse as espionage, slave-ransoming and the grain trade, challenging assumptions about the relationship between. The family trees and biography of Antonio Bruni thus reflect a larger story of empire and cultures, and Malcolm's discoveries challenge classic assumptions while also providing an immersive narrative of discovery"--
Pagina's	604
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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