Venice's Mediterranean colonies : architecture and urbanism / Maria Georgopoulou.

By:

Georgopoulou, Maria, 1961- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: xv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780521184342
9780521782357

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.9171

Contents:

Introduction: Venice's Empire -- Part I: Constructing and Empire -- 1. The city as locus of colonial rule -- 2. Signs of Power -- 3. Venice, the heir of Byzantium -- Part II: Mapping the colonial territory -- 4. Patron saints, relics, and martyria -- 5. The blessings of the Friars -- 6. The Greeks and the city -- 7. Segregation within the walls: the Judaica -- Part III: Symbols of colonial control -- 8. Ritualizing colonial practices -- 9. Colonialism and the metropole -- Conclusion: Crete and Venice.

Summary: "This book examines the architecture and urbanism of the Venetian colonies in the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia (modern Herakleion), as a case study, Maria Georgopoulou exposes the dynamic relationship that existed between colonizer and colony. She studies the administrative, ecclesiastical, and military monuments set up by the Venetian colonists, which served as bold statements of control over the local Greek population and the Jewish communities, who were ethnically, religiously, and linguistically distinct from them. Georgopoulou demonstrates how the Venetian colonists manipulated Crete's past history in order to support and legitimate colonial rule, particularly through the appropriation of older Byzantine traditions in civic and religious ceremonies. At the same time, Crete and the other Mediterranean colonies - and the material goods that they exported to Venice - offered the city the cultural prestige it needed in order to foster a new "imperial image" of the Venetian Republic after the Fourth Crusade of 1204."-- Back Cover.

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Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	720.9171 GEO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000011421		Tsivikis, Nikos

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-372) and index.

"This book examines the architecture and urbanism of the Venetian colonies in the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia (modern Herakleion), as a case study, Maria Georgopoulou exposes the dynamic relationship that existed between colonizer and colony. She studies the administrative, ecclesiastical, and military monuments set up by the Venetian colonists, which served as bold statements of control over the local Greek population and the Jewish communities, who were ethnically, religiously, and linguistically distinct from them. Georgopoulou demonstrates how the Venetian colonists manipulated Crete's past history in order to support and legitimate colonial rule, particularly through the appropriation of older Byzantine traditions in civic and religious ceremonies. At the same time, Crete and the other Mediterranean colonies - and the material goods that they exported to Venice - offered the city the cultural prestige it needed in order to foster a new "imperial image" of the Venetian Republic after the Fourth Crusade of 1204."-- Back Cover.