Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521184342)

This book examines the architecture and urbanism in the Venetian colonies of 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. 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.

Author: Maria Georgopoulou
ISBN-10: 0521184347
ISBN-13: 9780521184342
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2011
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.82d