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The Fall of Negroponte to the Ottomans in 1470 and Female Sanctity in Venice

April 20, 2010 19:00

ASCSA, Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou, 106 76 Athens

LECTURE

Presented by

Cotsen Lecture Series

Speaker

Reinhold Mueller (University of Venice)

210 - 72.10.536 (ext. 101)

Professor Reinhold Mueller of the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Venice will speak on “The Fall of Negroponte to the Ottomans in 1470 and Female Sanctity in Venice.”

Having earned ehis doctorate in 1969 from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), with a dissertation titled: “The Procuratori di San Marco and the Venetian Credit Market: A Study of the Development of Credit and Banking in the Trecento” under the direction of Frederic C. Lane (published in 1977; see below), he took a position at the University of Venice where has has become a reknown historian of the Medieval Social and Economic History of Venice. For this lecture Reinhold Mueller turns his attention to a topic that takes on the relations of Venice with its Mediterranean Empire.

His long list of publications includes the following books and more than 50 articles and essays:

The Procuratori di San Marco and the Venetian Credit Market: A Study of the Development of Credit and Banking in the Trecento, in the series “Dissertations in European Economic History”, New York: Arno Press, 1977.

(with Frederic C. Lane) Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, vol. 1: Coins and Moneys of Account. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

edited book (with Benjamin G. Kohl): Frederic C. Lane, Studies in Venetian Social and Economic History, London: Variorum, 1987.

The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 (vol. 2 of Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice). Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

edited book (with L. Molà e C. Zanier, eds.) La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento. Dal bacco al drappo, Marsilio, Venezia 2000.

book in preparation: (with Ph. Braunstein) critical edition of “Description ou traictie du gouvernement ou regime de la cité et seigneurie de Venise”, anonymous tract of ca. 1500 (Memorie, Ist. Veneto di Scienze, lettere ed arti).

Professor Mueller’s lecture will be in English; a Greek summary will be provided.