Tolerance re-shaped in the early-modern Mediterranean borderlands : travellers, missionaries and proto-journalists (1683-1724) /

This book explores perceptions of toleration and self-identity through an analysis of otherness' real experience of Italian travellers, Catholic missionaries and Maltese proto-journalists within Mediterranean border-spaces. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, which integrates the analysis o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tagliaferri, Filomena Viviana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Swinging or suspended minds? : cultural and methodological approaches to diversity in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
  • Venezia, finestra d'Oriente : the Venetian stamperia Pittoni and the spreading of information from the east
  • Traveling ego and physical engagements : Italian travelers dealing with Ottomans
  • A chance for diversity: Infidel Izmir and Ottoman tolerance
  • From weakness to laissez-faire : competition and acceptance in the 17th-18th century Catholic mission of Izmir
  • Hybridizing minds : the Levantinization of the Catholic community of Izmir
  • Another kind of border-space : fortified Malta in one hundred years of travel narrative (late 17th and late 18th centuries)
  • In a world of news : the flux of early modern Mediterranean information and the Maltese mindset
  • When the crescent became delicatessen : change in the perception of the other and connected destinies in early 18th-century Malta.