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041 0 eng
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092 0 940.2|bengelska
100 1 Malcolm, Noel,|eauthor
245 10 Agents of empire :|bknights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies
in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world /|cNoel
Malcolm
264 1 UK :|bAllen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books,|c2015
300 xxv, 604 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm
336 text|2rdacontent
336 still image|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|2rdamedia
338 volume|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
505 0 A Note on Names, Conventions and Pronunciations -- 1:
Ulcinj, Albania and Two Empires -- 2: Three Families -- 3:
Antonio Bruti in the Service of Venice -- 4: Giovanni
Bruni in the Service of God -- 5: Gasparo Bruni, the
Knights of Malta and Dubrovnik -- 6: War, Galleys and
Geopolitics, 1570 -- 7: War, Rebellion and Ottoman
Conquest, 1570-1571 -- 8: The Lepanto Campaign, 1571 -- 9:
War, Peace and La Goletta, 1572-1574 -- 10: Istria -- 11:
Bartolomeo Bruti and the Prisoner Exchange, 1573-1575 --
12: Intelligence-gathering, Espionage and Sabotage, 1575-
1577 -- 13: Giovanni Margliani, Mehmed Sokollu and Secret
Diplomacy, 1577-1579 -- 14: Bartolomeo Bruti, Sinan Pasha
and the Moldavian Venture, 1578-1580 -- 15: Gasparo Bruni
and the Huguenot War in Avignon, 1573-1586 -- 16: Antonio
Bruni, Jesuit Education and the Last Years of Gasparo
Bruni -- 17: Moldavia, Tatars, Cossacks and Iancu Sasul,
1580-1582 -- 18: Bartolomeo Bruti, Petru Schiopul and Aron,
1582-1592 -- 19: Cristoforo Bruti and the Creation of a
Dragoman Dynasty -- 20: Petru Schiopul in Exile, and his
Counsellor, Antonio Bruni, 1591-1598 -- 21: War,
Geopolitics and Rebellion, 1593-1596 -- 22: The 1596
Campaign and Pasquale Dabri's Peace Mission -- Epilogue:
The Legacy : Antonio Bruni's Treatise -- Glossary -- List
of Manuscripts
520 "In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the
Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive
against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman
sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and
corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also
many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly
porous frontiers of these opposing power-blocs. Agents of
Empire describes the paths taken through the eastern
Mediterranean and its European hinterland by members of a
Venetian-Albanian family, almost all of them previously
invisible to history. They include an archbishop in the
Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle
of Lepanto, the power behind the throne in the Ottoman
province of Moldavia, and a dragoman (interpreter) at the
Venetian embassy in Istanbul. Through the life-stories of
these adventurous individuals over three generations, Noel
Malcolm casts the world between Venice, Rome and the
Ottoman Empire in a fresh light, illuminating subjects as
diverse as espionage, diplomacy, the grain trade, slave-
ransoming and anti-Ottoman rebellion. He describes the
conflicting strategies of the Christian powers, and the
extraordinarily ambitious plans of the sultans and their
viziers. Few works since Fernand Braudel's classic account
of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean, published more
than sixty years ago, have ranged so widely through this
vital period of Mediterranean and European history. A
masterpiece of scholarship as well as story-telling,
Agents of Empire builds up a panoramic picture, both of
Western power-politics and of the interrelations between
the Christian and Ottoman worlds."--Book jacket
520 2 "In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named
Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home
country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as
a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire
Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the
Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle
of Lepanto--at which the Ottomans were turned back in the
Eastern Mediterranean--in 1571, and a highly placed
interpreter in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, the
capital of the Eastern Roman Empire that fell to the Turks
in 1453. The taking of Constantinople had profoundly
altered the map of the Mediterranean. By the time of
Bruni's document, Albania, largely a Venetian province
from 1405 onward, had been absorbed into the Ottoman
Empire. Even under the Ottomans, however, this was a world
marked by the ferment of the Italian Renaissance. In
Agents of Empire, Malcolm uses the collective biography of
the Brunis to paint a fascinating and intimate picture of
Albania at a moment when it represented the frontier
between empires, cultures, and religions. The lives of the
polylingual, cosmopolitan Brunis shed new light on the
interrelations between the Ottoman and Christian worlds,
characterized by both conflict and complex
interdependence. The result of years of archival detective
work, Agents of Empire brings to life a vibrant moment in
European and Ottoman history, challenging our assumptions
about their supposed differences. Malcolm's book guides us
through the exchanges between East and West, Venetians and
the Ottomans, and tells a story of worlds colliding with
and transforming one another"--|cProvided by publisher
520 2 "In this fascinating and intimate look at the borderland
between East and West--Venetian Italy and Ottoman Albania-
-distinguished historian Sir Noel Malcolm brings to life
not a clash of civilizations so much as their fascinating
and nuanced interdigitation. In the late sixteenth century,
a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a
treatise on the main European province of the Ottoman
Empire concerning his country's place in the empire. Using
that text as a point of departure, Malcolm's Agents of
Empire explores and evokes the lives of an eminent
Venetian-Albanian family and its paths through the eastern
Mediterranean. The family includes an archbishop in the
Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at Lepanto, the
power behind the throne in the Ottoman province of
Moldavia, and a dragoman (interpreter) at the Porte.
Malcolm uses the family's collective biography as a
framework on which to build a broader account of East-West
relations and interactions in this period. In doing so, he
sheds light new light on the interrelations between the
Christian and Ottoman worlds, illuminating subjects as
diverse as espionage, slave-ransoming and the grain trade,
challenging assumptions about the relationship between.
The family trees and biography of Antonio Bruni thus
reflect a larger story of empire and cultures, and
Malcolm's discoveries challenge classic assumptions while
also providing an immersive narrative of discovery"--
|cProvided by publisher
600 10 Bruni, Antonio,|d-1598
600 10 Bruni, Antonio,|d-1598|xFamily
600 10 Bruti, Bartolomeo,|d-1592|xFamily
650 0 East and West|xHistory|y16th century
651 0 Albania|xHistory|y16th century
651 0 Ulcinj (Montenegro)|vBiography
651 0 Albania|xRelations|zItaly|zVenice
651 0 Venice (Italy)|xRelations|zAlbania
651 0 Mediterranean Region|xHistory|y16th century
651 0 Turkey|xHistory|yOttoman Empire, 1288-1918
651 0 Europe|xHistory|y16th century
776 08 |iebook version|z9780141978369
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