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Agents of Empire - Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Paperback)
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Agents of Empire - Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Paperback)
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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.
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