Mediterranean Counterpoints Archives - Malta University Press /mup/store/product-category/book-series/mediterranean-counterpoints/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:22:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 /mup/store/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/favicon1.ico Mediterranean Counterpoints Archives - Malta University Press /mup/store/product-category/book-series/mediterranean-counterpoints/ 32 32 Through the Water and the Storm: Maritime Averages and Seaborne Trade in Early Modern Genoa, 1590-1700 /mup/store/product/through-the-water-and-the-storm-maritime-averages-and-seaborne-trade-in-early-modern-genoa-1590-1700/ /mup/store/product/through-the-water-and-the-storm-maritime-averages-and-seaborne-trade-in-early-modern-genoa-1590-1700/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:17:57 +0000 /mup/store/?post_type=product&p=10837 The maritime legal framework of General Average (GA) remains an enigmatic and overlooked process within the history of seaborne trade. An ancient rule that redates Roman Law, it continues to be operational today, in a largely unchanged state, mandating the redistribution of unexpected costs that arise during a maritime expedition amongst shipowners and merchants. In this detailed examination of Average procedures within the Italian maritime republic of Genoa, between the years 1590 and 1700, Through the Water and the Storm demonstrates how this rich data can be used to investigate the dynamics of Mediterranean seaborne trade.

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]]> The maritime legal framework of General Average (GA) remains an enigmatic and overlooked process within the history of seaborne trade. An ancient rule that redates Roman Law, it continues to be operational today, in a largely unchanged state, mandating the redistribution of unexpected costs that arise during a maritime expedition amongst shipowners and merchants. In this detailed examination of Average procedures within the Italian maritime republic of Genoa, between the years 1590 and 1700, Through the Water and the Storm demonstrates how this rich data can be used to investigate the dynamics of Mediterranean seaborne trade.

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]]> /mup/store/product/through-the-water-and-the-storm-maritime-averages-and-seaborne-trade-in-early-modern-genoa-1590-1700/feed/ 0 The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era /mup/store/product/the-1840-rhodes-blood-libel-ottoman-jews-at-the-dawn-of-the-tanzimat-era/ /mup/store/product/the-1840-rhodes-blood-libel-ottoman-jews-at-the-dawn-of-the-tanzimat-era/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2024 10:14:05 +0000 /mup/store/?post_type=product&p=10547 The Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s governor in collusion with Levantine merchants, who charged the local Jewish community with murdering a Christian boy for ritual purposes. An episode in the shared histories of Ottomans and Jews, it was forgotten by the former and, even if remembered, misunderstood by the latter. The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel aims to restore the place of this event in Sephardi and Ottoman history.

Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources it argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews is adequately understood only in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations. Contrary to the common view that Ottoman Jews did not experience the impact of the Tanzimat reforms until the mid-1850s, this study shows that their effects were felt as early as 1840. Furthermore, this book offers a window onto life and intercommunal relations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the late Ottoman era.

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]]> The Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s governor in collusion with Levantine merchants, who charged the local Jewish community with murdering a Christian boy for ritual purposes. An episode in the shared histories of Ottomans and Jews, it was forgotten by the former and, even if remembered, misunderstood by the latter. The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel aims to restore the place of this event in Sephardi and Ottoman history.

Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources it argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews is adequately understood only in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations. Contrary to the common view that Ottoman Jews did not experience the impact of the Tanzimat reforms until the mid-1850s, this study shows that their effects were felt as early as 1840. Furthermore, this book offers a window onto life and intercommunal relations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the late Ottoman era.

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