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.

This special issue of the Gennadius Library's periodical, The New Griffon, presents six essays about the Library's map collection and its place in a larger project to bring together, in a digital repository, maps and charts of the Mediterranean held in American overseas research centers. Each article is in both English and Modern Greek. Contents: Mapping Mediterranean Lands (Maria Georgopoulou); "Mapping the Mediterranean" in the Gennadius Library (leonora Navari); American Overseas Digital Library Medmaps Inventory Database of the ASCSA Gennadius Library Maps Program (Alexis Malliaris); Francesco Grimani at the Gennadius Library (Haris Kalligas); The Cartography of the Greek Enlightenment, 1700-1820 (george Tolias); Pre-Linnean Taxonomies, Edenic Visions, and Cosmographic Dreams: Pierre Belon's Mappings of Mount Athos (Veronica della Dora).

Greek bibliographic resources have generally been difficult to access in North America. The latest issue of the Gennadius Library's annual periodical presents revised versions of papers first given at a meeting held in December 2006 that explored the possibility of effective transnational cooperation between libraries in Greece and in North America. Five broad themes dominated the conference: collection development and acquisition; bibliographic control (including cataloguing, adherence to standards, transliteration issues, and Unicode); reformatting (i.e., microfilming and digitization); indexing the contents of periodicals; and resource sharing and document delivery. Titles in Greek are in modern Greek.

Originally published in 2001, this book examines 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. She studies the military, administrative, and ecclesiastical monuments set up by the Venetian colonists which served as bold statements of control over the local Greek population and the Jewish communities who were ethnically, religiously, and linguistically distinct from them. 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.