{"product_id":"a-shared-world-molly-greene-9780691095424","title":"A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere 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. But to what extent did the conquest actually change life on Crete? Greene brings a new perspective to bear on this episode, and on the eastern Mediterranean in general. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Greene also notes that the Ottoman conquest of Crete represented not only the extension of Muslim rule to an island that once belonged to a Christian power, but also the strengthening of Eastern Orthodoxy at the expense of Latin Christianity, and ultimately the Orthodox reconquest of the eastern Mediterranean. Greene concludes that despite their religious differences, both the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire represented the ancien r馮ime in the Mediterranean, which accounts for numerous similarities between Venetian and Ottoman Crete. The true push for change in the region would come later from Northern Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Molly Greene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691095426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691095424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Molly Greene","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44829308518655,"sku":"9780691095424","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5ebbe6a4-b198-4831-a07f-ef3c35cfdb11.jpg?v=1708450423","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-shared-world-molly-greene-9780691095424","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}