The Birth of the Despot : Venice and the Sublime Porte / Lucette Valensi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valensi, Lucette, author.

Contributor:

Denner, Arthur.

Standardized Title:

Venise et la Sublime Porte. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Public opinion, Venetian.

Public opinion.

Intellectual life--Turkish influences.

Despotism.

Turkey.

Italy--Venice.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 in Valensi's study of how Venice's perceptions of its rival changed. Valensi shows how Venice's initial admiration for the sultan and his orderly empire metamorphosed into revulsion at a monstrous tyrant.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Overture

PART ONE

Judith

Holofernes

In the Heart of the Seraglio

The Prophecy of Daniel

Chorus

PART TWO

"Greater tyranny the world has never seen or imagined"

At the Sublime Porte

The Abduction fro the Seraglio

Finale

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1721-9

OCLC:

1037272742