Author: Greene, Molly [1959 - ]
Title: A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii,228 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Last Conquest; A Difficult Island; Ottoman Candia; Between Wine and Olive Oil; Merchants of Candia; The Slow Death of the Ancien Regime; Conclusion ["Here Molly Greene moves beyond the hostile "Christian"versus "Muslim" divide that has colored many historical interpretations of the early modern Mediterranean, & 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 & 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, & on the eastern Mediterranean in general. She argues that no sharp divide separated the Venetian & Ottoman eras because the Cretans were already part of a world where Latin Christians, Muslims, & Eastern Orthodox Christians had been intermingling for several centuries, particularly in the area of commerce. 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, & ultimately the Orthodox reconquest of the eastern Mediterranean..." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Ottoman Empire, Eastern, Mediterranean, Early Modern, Greece Crete, Turkey Social, Economic Political, Economy Economics, History