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The Birth of the Despot. Venice and the Sublime Porte.

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Description for The Birth of the Despot. Venice and the Sublime Porte. paperback. Translator(s): Denner, Arthur. Num Pages: 132 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 12. Weight in Grams: 166.

In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, when Venice's pursuit of its commercial and maritime interests brought two powerful protagonists—Venice and the Sublime Porte—face-to-face. Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans, in which Judith liberates her besieged town by killing the Turk Holofernes, serves as the organizing metaphor ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801475436
SKU
V9780801475436
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About Lucette Valensi
Lucette Valensi is Director of the Center for Historical Research at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College.

Reviews for The Birth of the Despot. Venice and the Sublime Porte.
In The Birth of the Despot, Lucette Valensi argues that the developing discourse on the Oriental despot indicated both disquiet at the prospect that that the Turks were more likely than any Christian king to reunite Europe, and reaction against domestic shifts in power from the nobility to kings and signori.... Her book is beautifully organized and written. Shaped like ... Read more

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