A Shared World
Subtitle: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780691095424
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; Cultural studies; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History - General History; History; History: World; ASIA; Crete; Mediterranean Sea; General; European History; History / Greece; Religion; Europe - Greece
First sentence: In a report sent to the Senate of the Venetian Republic in 1639, the provveditore generale of Crete, Isepo Civran, worried that pirate assaults on Ottoman shipping by the Maltese or the Florentines would provide the Ottoman Sultan with the excuse that he had been looking for to attack the island.