1st Edition
Tolerance Re-Shaped in the Early-Modern Mediterranean Borderlands Travellers, Missionaries and Proto-Journalists (1683-1724)
Introduction
Part I: Toleration Before Tolerance and the Endurance of the Other: Narrations of Cultural Diversity and the Transfer of New Perspectives
1. Swinging or Suspended Minds?: Cultural and Methodological Approaches to Diversity in the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries
2. Venezia, Finestra d’Oriente: The Venetian Stamperia Pittoni and the Spreading of Information from the East
3. Traveling Ego and Physical Engagements: Italian Travelers Dealing with Ottomans
Part II : Imperial Pragmatism, Minorities’ Weakness and Hybridization of Thought: Levantinization and the City of Izmir
4. A Chance for Diversity: Infidel Izmir and Ottoman Tolerance
5. From Weakness to Laissez-faire: Competition and Acceptance in the 17th-18th Century Catholic Mission of Izmir
6. Hybridizing Minds: The Levantinization of the Catholic Community of Izmir
Part III: Playing the Role of the Besieged Fortress, Sharing the Same Inter-Mediterranean Codes: Malta and the Familiarity of the Enemy
7. Another Kind of Border-Space: Fortified Malta in One Hundred Years of Travel Narrative (Late 17th and Late 18th Centuries)
8. In a World of News: The Flux of Early Modern Mediterranean Information and the Maltese Mindset
9. When the Crescent Became Delicatessen: Change in the Perception of the Other and Connected Destinies in Early 18th-Century Malta
Conclusion
Biography
Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri is Marie Curie Global Fellow at ISEM-CNR (Italy) and the University of Maryland.
