A shared world
Subtitle: Christians and Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean
By: Molly Greene.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Crete (Greece) -- History -- Venetian rule, 1204-1669 -- Influence; Crete (Greece) -- History -- Turkish rule, 1669-1898; Middle East -- Civilization; Mediterranean Region -- Civilization
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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.