Conversion, Tangled Loyalties and Hasan Veneziano Between Istanbul and Venice (1588-1591)

This essay aims to show how information was used as a political tool in sixteenth-century Istanbul. By concentrating on the “Mediterranean faction”, i.e. Muslim corsairs incorporated into the Ottoman imperial system, it ...

In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans ...

By drawing on documents from European archives, this article addresses everyday aspects of diplomacy in sixteenth-century Constantinople. It focuses on how various go-betweens mediated political, cultural, religious, and ...

Ottoman diplomacy during the reign of Selim II: Parameters and perimeters of the Ottoman Empire in the third quarter of the XI century

Communication and Conflict: Italian Diplomacy in the Early Renaissance, 1350-1520

In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial ...

This article concentrates on the relationship between the Ottoman Grand Admiral Uluc Hasan Pasha (Hasan Veneziano), a Venetian renegade, and the Venetian ambassadors (baili) in Istanbul. Based on documentation from Venetian ...

Relying on documentation from Ottoman, Spanish, Venetian and Florentine archives, this article delineates the characteristics of Ottoman espionage in the sixteenth-century. It argues that Ottoman information gathering was ...

The understanding of things: A history of information between Italy and Mediterranean (XVI-XVII centuries)