Venice: general Patricia Fortini Brown, Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past, London & New Haven, 1996 D. S. Chambers, The Imperial Age of Venice, 1380-1580, London, 1970. Deborah Howard, Venice & the East : the Impact of the Islamic world on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000. Frederic C. Lane, Venice: A Maritime Republic, Baltimore & London, 1973 John Julius Norwich. A History of Venice, New York: Knopf, 1982 William H. McNeill, Venice : the Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1974 Alberto Tenenti, “The Sense of Space and Time in the Venetian World of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries,” in Renaissance Venice, ed. John Hale, London: Faber & Faber, 1973, 17-46

Venice’s Mediterranean empire: general Kevin Andrews, Castles of the Morea, rev. ed., Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006 Reinhold C. Mueller, “Greeks in Venice and “Venetians” in Greece: Notes on Citizenship and Immigration in the Late Middle Ages,” in Ricchi e poveri nella societa dell’Oriente Grecolatino, ed. Chryssa A. Maltezou, Venice, 1998, 167-180 Beata Kitsiki-Panagopoulos, Cistercian and Mendicant Monasteries in Medieval Greece, Chicago and London, 1979 Ellen E. Kittell & Thomas F. Madden, eds., Medieval and Renaissance Venice, Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999 Jan Morris, The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage, London: Penguin Books, 1990 John Julius Norwich. The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean, New York: Doubleday, 2006. Alberto Tenenti, Piracy and the Decline of Venice 1580-1615, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967 P. Topping, “Premodern Peloponnesus: The Land the People under Venetian Rule,” in Regional variation in modern Greece and Cyprus : toward a perspective on the ethnography of Greece, ed. Muriel Dimen and Ernestine Friedl, New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1976 Venetians and Knights Hospitallers: Military Architecture Networks, Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2002 Fariba Zarinebag, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century (Hesperia, supplement 34) Athens: American School of Classical Studies, 2005

Crete:general Paraskevi Bozineki-Didonis, Greek Traditional Architecture: Crete, trans. Philip Ramp, Athens, Melissa, 1985 Pat Cameron, Blue Guide: Crete, London & New York, 2003 Theocharis E. Detorakis, History of Crete, trans. John C. Davis, Heraklion 1994

1 Robert Pashley, Travels in Crete (Reprint of the ed. London 1837), Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1970 Oliver Rackham & Jennifer Moody, The Making of the Cretan Landscape, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996

Crete: Venetian period Michele Buonsanti and Alberta Galla, Candia Veneziana: Venetian Itineraries Through Crete, Heraklion, n.d. Jordan Dimacopoulos, “Italian Renaissance in Crete,” Architectural Review 161, no. 960 (Feb 1977), 129-132 Maria Georgopoulou, Venice’s Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001 Giuseppe Gerola, I monumenti veneti nell’isola di Creta, 4 vols. In 5 parts, Venice, 1905-32 Ruth Gertwagen, “The Venetian Port of Candia, Crete (1299-1363). Construction and Maintenance,” in I. Malkin and R. L. Hohlfelder, eds., Mediterranean Cities. Historical Perspectives, London ,1988, 141-58 D Bernicolas Hatzopoulos, “A sixteenth century description of Crete and of the Ionian Islands composed by the Venetian traveller Alessandro Magno,” Balkan studies 24:1(1983): 29-36 David Holton, ed., Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete, Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1991 David Jacoby, “Venice and Venetian Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean,” in Gli Ebrei a Venezia, ed. Gaetano Cozzi, Milan, 1987, 29-58 Chryssa A. Maltezou, “The Historical and Social Context,” in Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete, ed. David Holton, Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1991, 17-47 Stephen Margaritis, Crete and Ionian Islands Under the Venetians, Athens, 1978 Sally McKee, Uncommon Dominion: Venetian Crete and the Myth of Ethnic Purity, Philadelphia: U of Penn Press, 2000 William Miller, “Crete Under the Venetians 1204-1669,” in his Essays on the Latin Orient, Amsterdam, A. M. Hakkert, 1964, 177-98 Monique O’Connell “The Venetian Patriciate in the Mediterranean: Legal Identity and Lineage in Fifteenth Century Venetian Crete,” Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004): 466-93. Monique O’Connell “The Castellan in Local Administration in Fifteenth century Venetian Crete,” Thesaurismata 33 (2004): 161-77 Gherardo Ortalli, ed., Venezia e Creta : atti del convegno internazionale di studi Iraklion-Chanià, 30 settembre-5 ottobre 1997, Venice : Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 1998 Nikos Psilakis, Monasteries and Byzantine Churches of Crete (Heraklion: Karmanor, 1998) Joshua Starr, “Jewish Life in Crete under the Rule of Venice,” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 12 (1942): 59-114 Chrysoula Tzobanaki, Marine Trilogy of Khandax: The port - the shipyards - the fortress Koules, Heraklion: Typocreta, 1988 Venezia e la difesa del Levante. Da Lepanto a Candia, 1570-1670, Venice, 1986

Crete: Ottoman period Irene Bierman, “The Ottomanization of Crete,” in The Ottoman City and its Parts: Urban Structure and Social Order, ed. Irene Bierman, Rifa’at Abou-El-Haj, and Donald Preziosi, New Rochelle: Aristide D. Caratzas, 1991, 53-75

2 Molly Greene, A shared world: Christians and Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000 Heath Lowry, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State, Albany: SUNY Press, 2003 Daniel Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge U Press, 2002 Halil Inalcik, An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, vol. I, Cambridge U Press, 2006 George Sandys, Sandys Travels : containing an history of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire, their laws, government, policy, military force, courts of justice, and commerce, the Mahometan religion and ceremonies . . . London, 1670 [Early English books online: http://wwwlib.umi.com/eebo/image/98086]

Cartography: Elizabeth Clutton, “Some Seventeenth Century Images of Crete: a Comparative Analysis of the Manuscript Maps by Francesco Basilicata and the Printed Maps by Marco Boschini,” Imago Mundi 34 (1982): 48-65 Heleni Porfyriou, “The Cartography of Crete in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: A Collective Work of a Generation of Engineers,” in Eastern Mediterranean Cartographies. Tetradia Ergasias, ed. George Tolias and Dimitris Loupis, Athens: Institute for Neohellenic Research, 25/26, 2004, 65-92 Vasilis Sphyroeras, Anna Avramea, and Spyros Asdrahas, Maps and Map-Makers of the Aegean, Athens: Olkos, 1985 George Tolias and Dimitris Loupis, eds.,Eastern Mediterranean cartographies, Athens : Institute for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2004. George Tolias, The Greek portolan charts, 15th-17th centuries : a contribution to the Mediterranean cartography of the modern period, trans. Geoffrey Cox and John Solman, Athens: Olkos, 1999. Christos G. Zacharakis, A catalogue of printed maps of Greece, 1477-1800, 2nd rev. ed., Athens : Samourkas Foundation, 1992

Cretan icons and painting: José Álvarez Lopera, ed., El Greco: Identity and Transformation. Crete, Italy. Spain, Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1999, 23-54 Manolis Borboudakis, Icons of Cretan Art. From Candia to Moscow to St. Petersburg. Exhib. Cat., Heraklion, 1993 Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004 Nano Chatzidakis, Icons of the Cretan School (15th-18th Century), exhib. cat., Benaki Museum, Athens, 1983 Robin Cormack and Maria Vassilaki, “The Baptism of Christ : New Light on Early El Greco,” Apollo 80 (August 2005): 34-41 David Davies, ed., El Greco, London: National Gallery Company, 2003 El Greco of Crete: Proceedings of the international symposium held on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the artist’s birth : Iraklion, Crete, 1-5 September 1990, Heraklion, 1995 From Byzantium to El Greco: Greek Frescoes and Icons, Athens: Greek Ministry of Culture, 1987 From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Hellenic Art in Adversity, 1453-1830. From the Collections of the Benaki Museum, Athens, New York and Athens, 2005 Thalia Gouma-Peterson, “Crete, Venice, the ‘Madonneri’ and a Creto-Venetian Icon in the Allen Art Museum,” Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 25:2 (Winter 1968)

3 Thalia Gouma-Peterson, “The icon as a cultural presence after 1453,” in Byzantine tradition after the fall of Constantinople, Charlottesville, London, University Press of Virginia, 1991, p. 151-180 Maria Vassilaki, “Painting and Painters in Venetian Crete,” in Mediterranean Cultural Interaction, ed. Asher Ovadiah, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2000,147-62 Maria Vassilaki, “Some Cretan Icons in the Walters Art Gallery,” The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 48 (1990): 75-92

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