Benjamin arbel ph

Benjamin Arbel Ph.D.
Professor of Early Modern History
Incumbent of the Chair for the History and Culture of the Jewry of Salonika and Greece
Department of History
Tel Aviv University
List of Publications
June 2009
A. BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
1. Trading Nations. Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean (Leiden,
1995), xi+237 pp.
2. Cyprus, the Franks and Venice (13th-16th Centuries) (London, 2000) (Variorum Collected
Studies Series CS 688), xii+332 pp.
3. The Italian Renaissance: The Emergence of a Secular Culture (Tel Aviv 2000), 144 pp. [in
Hebrew]
Edited books:
4. [B. Arbel, B. Hamilton and D. Jacoby] Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean
after 1204 (London, 1989), 245 pp. [also published as a special issue of Mediterranean
Historical Review, 4/1, June, 1989].

5. Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean. Studies in Honour of David Jacoby
(London, 1995), 340 pp. [also published as a special issue of Mediterranean Historical
Review, 10/1-2, June-Dec. 1995].
6. (in collab. with J. Terkel and S. Menache) Human Beings and other Animals in Historical
Perspective (Carmel Books, Jerusalem, 2007), 408 pp. [in Hebrew].
7. Venetian Letters (1354-1512) from the Archives of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
and other Cypriot Collections (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, 2007), 212 pp.


ARTICLES AND MONOGRAPHIC CHAPTERS
1. "The Republic that Ruled the Seas", in M. Harsgor (ed.), Introduction to the Renaissance, Tel Aviv, 1978, pp. 83-92 [in Hebrew]. 2. "The Jews in Cyprus: New Evidence from the Venetian Period", Jewish Social Studies, 41 (1979), pp. 23-40, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 3. "Cypriot Population under Venetian Rule: A Demographic Study", Μελέται καί Υποµνήµατα , 1 (1984), pp. 183-215, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 4. "Urban Assemblies and Town Councils in Frankish and Venetian Cyprus", in T. Papadopoullos and B. Englezaki, eds., Πρακτικά του ∆εύτερου ∆ιεθνούς Kυπρολογικού Συνεδρίου, Nicosia, 1986, vol. 2, pp. 203-213, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 5. [B. Arbel et G. Veinstein], "La fiscalité vénéto-chypriote au miroir de la législation ottomane: le qanunname de 1572”, Turcica, 18 (1986), pp. 7-51. 6. "Venezia, gli Ebrei e l’attività di Salomone Ashkenasi nella guerra di Cipro” [Venice, the Jews and Solomon Ashkenasi's Activity during the War of Cyprus], in G. Cozzi (ed.), Gli ebrei e Venezia (Milan, 1987), pp. 163-197. 7. "Venetian Trade in Fifteenth-Century Acre: The Letters of Francesco Bevilaqua (1471-72)", Asian and African Studies, 22 (1988), pp. 227-288. 8. "A Royal Family in Republican Venice: The Cypriot Legacy of the Corner della Regina", Studi Veneziani, n.s. 15 (1988), pp. 131-152, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 9. "Venice and the Jewish Merchants of Istanbul in the Sixteenth Century", in A. Toaff and S. Schwarzfuchs, eds., The Mediterranean and the Jews: Finance and International Trade (XVIth-XVIIIth Centuries) (Ramat Gan, 1989), pp. 92-109. 10. "Traffici marittimi e sviluppo urbano a Cipro (secoli XIII-XVI)” [Maritime Traffic and Urban Development in Cyprus (13th-16th Centuries)], in E.Poleggi(ed.), Città portuali del Mediterraneo (Genua, 1989), pp. 89-94. 11. "Résistance ou collaboration? Les Chypriotes sous la domination vénitienne”, in M. Balard (ed.), Etat et colonisation au Moyen Age et à la Renaissance (Lyon, 1989), pp. 131-143, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 12. "The Cypriot Nobility from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century: A New Interpretation", in B. Arbel, B. Hamilton and D. Jacoby (eds.), Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204 (London, 1989), pp. 175-197, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 13 . "Sauterelles et mentalités. Le cas de la Chypre vénitienne”, Annales ESC, 44e année, No 5 (1989), pp. 1057-1074, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 14. “Mediterranean Cultural Crossroads: Frankish and Venetian Cyprus”, Zemanim, 34-35 (1990), pp. 82-93 [in Hebrew] 15. "Salomone Ashkenazi, mercante e armatore” [Solomon Ashkenazi, Merchant and Shipowner], in G. Todeschini and P.C. Ioly Zorattini (eds.), Il mondo ebraico. Gli ebrei tra Italia nord-orientale e Impero asburgico dal Medioevo all'Età contemporanea (Pordenone, 1991), pp. 109-128. 16. "Levantine Power Struggles in an Unpublished Mamluk Letter of 877 AH/1473 CE", Mediterranean Historical Review, 7 (1992), pp. 92-100. 17. "Nur Banu (c. 1530-1583): A Venetian Sultana?", Turcica, 24 (1992), pp. 241-259. 18. "Slave Trade and Slave Labor in Frankish Cyprus", Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, n.s. 14 (1993), pp. 149-190, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 19. "The Reign of Caterina Corner (1473-1489) as a Family Affair", Studi Veneziani, n.s. 26 (1993), pp. 67-85, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 20. "Venezia e il Mediterraneo nel Cinquecento” [Venice and the Mediterranean in the Sixteenth Century], in J. Hinojosa Montalvo (ed.), 1490: en el umbral de la modernidad. El Mediterráneo europeo y las ciudades en el tránsito de los siglos XV-XVI (Alicante, 1994), pp. 15-22. 21. "Greek Magnates in Venetian Cyprus: The Case of the Synglitico Family", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 49 (1995), pp. 325-337, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 22. . "Venetian Cyprus and the Muslim Levant, 1473-1570", in N. Coureas and J. Riley Smith (eds.), Cyprus and the Crusades (Nicosia, 1995), pp. 159-185, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 23. "H Κύπρος υπό Ενετική Κυριαρχία” [Cyprus under Venetian Rule], in Th. Papadopoullos (ed.), Ιστορία της Κύπρου [History of Cyprus], vol. 4, Part A, Makarios III Foundation (Nicosia, 1995), vol. 4, pp. 455-536. 24. "Régime colonial, colonisation et peuplement: Le cas de Chypre sous la domination vénitienne", in Sources. Travaux historiques, vols. 43-44 (Paris, 1996), pp. 95-103, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 25. "The Economy of Cyprus during the Venetian Period (1473-1571)", in V. Karageorghis and D. Michaelides (eds.), The Development of the Cypriot Economy from the Prehistoric Period to the Present Day (Nicosia, 1996), pp. 185-192. 26. [B. Arbel and A. Luttrell] "Plundering Ancient Treasures at Bodrum (Halicarnassus): A Commercial Letter written on Cyprus, January 1507", Mediterranean Historical Review, 11 (1996), pp. 79-86. 27. "Colonie d’Oltremare” [Overseas Colonies], in A. Tenenti and U. Tucci (eds), Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima, vol. V: Il Rinascimento. Società ed economia (Rome, 1996), pp. 947-985. 28. “The Mystery of Abraham Castro – and its Solution”, in The Days of the Crescent. Chapters in the History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire, ed. M. Rozen (Tel Aviv, 1996), pp. 333-357 [in Hebrew]. 29. "Attraverso il Mediterraneo nel 1499: una nave veneziana naufragata a Cipro e il suo carico” [Crossing the Mediterranean in 1499: A Venetian ship wrecked in Cyprus and its Cargo], in G. Airaldi, ed., Le vie del Mediterraneo. Idee, uomini, oggetti (secoli XI-XVI), ed. Gabriella Airaldi (Genua, 1997), pp. 103-115. 30. "The List of Able-Bodied Jews at the Cretan Town of Chania (Canea), 1536", in Daniel Carpi Jubilee Volume (Tel Aviv, 1997), pp. 21-33. 31a. “Κύπρος: Επαρχία τής Βενετικής ∆ηµοκρατίας. Συνέχειες καί Ασυνέχειες” [Cyprus as a Venetian Territory: Continuity and Change], in Bυζαντινή Μεσαιωνική Κύπρος, eds. D.P. Papanikola-Bakirtzi and M. Iakovou (Nicosia, 1997), pp. 161-174. 31b. “Cyprus as a Venetian Territory: Continuity and Change", English version of No. 28 in: Byzantine Medieval Cyprus, eds. D.P. Papanikola-Bakirtzi and M. Iakovou (Nicosia, 1998), pp. 161-174. 32. "L’eredità genovese a Cipro, 1464-1571” [The Genoese Heritage in Cyprus, 1464-1571], in L. Balletto (ed.), Oriente e Occidente fra medioevo e età moderna. Studi in onore di Geo Pistarino, (Genua, 1997), vol. 1, pp. 21-40, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 33. "Riflessioni sul ruolo di Creta nel commercio Mediterraneo del Cinquecento” [Reflections on the Role of Crete in the Trading System of the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean], in Venezia e Creta, ed. G. Ortalli (Venice 1998), pp. 245-259. 34. "Roots of Poverty and Sources of Richness in Cyprus under Venetian Rule", in Πλούσιοι καί Φτωχοί στην Κοινωνία της Ελληνολατινικής Ανατολής - Ricchi e poveri nella società dell'Oriente Grecolatino, ed. Chryssa A. Maltezou (Venice 1998), pp. 351-360. 35. "Entre mythe et histoire: La légende noire de la domination vénitienne à Chypre”, Etudes balkaniques: Cahiers Pierre Belon, 5 (1998), (Matériaux pour une histoire de Chypre (IVe-XXe siècles), pp. 81-107, reprinted in: Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, op. cit. 36. "The Port Towns of the Levant in Sixteenth-Century Travel Literature", in A. Cowan (ed.), Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700 (Exeter 2000), pp. 151-164. 37. "Renaissance Geographical Literature and the Nile", in The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths, eds. H. Erlich and I. Gershoni (New York, 2000), pp. 105-119. 38. “Cypriot Villages from the Byzantine to the British Period: Observations on a Recent Book”, Eπετηρίδα του Kέντρου Eπιστηµονικών Eρευνών (Annual of the Cyprus Research Centre), vol. 26 (2000), pp. 439-456. 39. "Shipping and Toleration: The Appearance of Jewish Shipowners in the Early Modern Period", in Seafaring and the Jews, Special issue of Mediterranean Historical Review, vol. 15/1 (June 2000), ed. N. Kashtan, pp. 56-71. 40. "Supplying Water to Famagusta: New Evidence from the Venetian Period", in Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Cypriot Studies (Nicosia, 1996), vol. 2 (Nicosia 2001), pp. 651-656. 41. "Au service de la Sérénissime: Donato d’Aprile et la donation du royaume de Chypre à Venise par le roi Jacques II”, in Dei Gesta per Francos. Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard, eds. M. Balard, B.Z. Kedar & J. Riley-Smith (Aldershot, 2001), 425-434. 42. "Jews in International Trade: The Emergence of the Levantines and Ponentines”, in R. Davis and B. Ravid (eds), The Jews of Early Modern Venice (Baltimore & London, 2001), pp. 73-96, 264-271 [notes]. 43. “Animal Rights in Historical Perspective”, in Animals, Society and What’s between them, I. Tesler, J. Terkel, I. Meged (Tel Aviv, 2001), pp. 17-28 [in Hebrew]. 44. "The Ionian Islands and Venice’s Trading System during the Sixteenth-Century", in Κέντρο Μελετών Ιονίου – Εταιρεία Ζακυνθιακών Σπουδών, Πρακτικά ΣΤ’ ∆ιεθνούς Πανιονίου Συνεδρίου [Acts of the 6th International Pan-Ionian Congress (Zakynthos, 1997)], vol. 2 (Athens, 2001), pp. 147-160. 45. “Machiavelli’s Mule and Montaigne’s Cat: Renaissance Men and other Animals”, Zmanim, 77 (2002/1), pp. 28-43. [in Hebrew] 46. “Roman-Catholics and Greek-Orthodox in the Early-Modern Venetian State”, in The Three Religions. Interdisciplinary Conference of Tel Aviv University and Munich University, Venice, October 2000, eds. Nili Cohen & Andreas Heldrich (Munich, 2002), pp. 73-86. 47. "Maps of the World for Ottoman Princes? Further Evidence and Questions concerning 'The Mappamondo of Hajji Ahmad”, Imago Mundi , 54 (2002), pp. 19-29. 48. “The Treasure of Ayios Symeon: a Micro-Historical Analysis of Colonial Relations in Venetian-Ruled Cyprus”, Kambos. Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, 10 (2002), pp. 1-19. 49. “Jews, the Rise of Capitalism and Cambio: Commercial Credit and Maritime Insurance the Early Modern Mediterranean World”, Zion 69/2 (2004), pp. 157-202 [in Hebrew]. 50. “The Last Decades of Mamluk Trade with Venice”, Mamluk Studies Review, 8/2 (2004), pp. 37-86. 51. “Les listes de chargement des navires vénitiens (XVe-début du XVIe siècle): un essai de typologie”, Chemins d’outre-mer. Etudes sur la Méditerranée médiévale offertes à Michel Balard (Paris, 2004), vol. I, pp.31-50. 52. [with Minna Rozen] “Great Fire in the Metropolis: The Case of the Istanbul Conflagration of 1569 and its Description by Marcantonio Barbaro”, in Mamluks and Ottomans. Studies in Honour of Michael Winter, eds. A. Ayalon and D. Wasserstein (London, 2006), pp. 134-165. 53. “The Attitude of Orientals to Animals in Renaissance Eyes”, in B. Arbel, J. Terkel and S. Menache (eds.), Human Beings and Other Animals in Historical Perspective (Carmel, Jerusalem, 2007), pp. 277-292 [in Hebrew] 54. “Maritime Trade and International Relations in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean: The Case of the Ship Ghirarda (1575-1581)”, in V. Costantini and M. Koller (eds.), Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community. Essays in Honour of Suraiya Foroqhi (Brill, Leiden, 2008), pp. 391-408. 55. “The ‘Jewish Wine’ of Crete”, in Μονεµβάσιος Οίνος, Μονοβας(ι)ά – Malvasia (Athens, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008), pp. 81-88. 56. “Operating Trading Networks in Times of War: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian Patrician Between Public Service and Levant Trade”, in S. Faroqhi & G. Veinstein (eds.), Merchants in the Ottoman Empire (Peeters, Leuven, 2008), pp. 23-33. 57. “Cyprus on the Eve of the Ottoman Conquest”, in M.N. Michael, M. Kappler, E. Eftihios (eds), Ottoman Cyprus (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2009), pp. 37-48. (Accepted for publication/in print): 58. “The Treatment of Animals in the Islamic Orient as Perceived by Western Observers of the Renaissance”, in Animals and people in the Ottoman Empire, ed. S. Faroqhi (Muhittin Eren, Istanbul) 59. “Aspects of Renaissance Studies: 1985-2005”, in G. Harlaftis (ed.) Historiography in the Last Twenty Years, (University of the Ionian Islands, Corfu) 60. “The Venetian Domination of Cyprus: Cui Bono?”, in Venice in Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice (University of Cyprus, ) 61. “Calendar, Time and Holiday in the World of a Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Merchant”, in Calendar, Time and Holiday in Society, Culture and Consciousness (Jerusalem, Israel Historical Society) [in Hebrew] 62. “Venice and Kytherian Falcons: Ecological Aspects of Renaissance Colonialism”, in Acts of the 8th International Congress of Pan-Ionian Studies (Kythera, 21-25 May 2006) 63. “The Maintenance of Famagusta’s Harbour under Venetian Administration (1473-1571)”, Graecoarabica 64. “L’elezione dei prelati greci a Cipro durante la dominazione veneziana”, in I Greci durante la Venetocrazia: uomini, spazio, idee (Istituto Ellenico, Venezia) 65. “Between Segregation and Integration: Cretan Jews during the Sixteenth Century”, in "Interstizi" : culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei domini veneziani tra basso medioevo e prima epoca moderna (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziai, 66. “The Triumph of the Mule in Sixteenth-Century Cyprus”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Cypriot Studies (Nicosia, ) 1. Review of D.B. Ruderman, The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol (Cincinnati, 1981), in The Historian, 46 (1984), pp. 604-605. 2. Review of J. Richard, Le livre des remembrances de la secrète du royaume de Chypre (1468-1469) (Nicosia, 1983), in Le Moyen Age, 92 (1986), pp. 511-514. 2. Review of A. and B. Tenenti, Il prezzo del rischio. L'assicurazione mediterranea vista da Ragusa (1563-1591) (Rome, 1985), in Turcica, 18 (1986), pp. 247-249. 3. "Three Studies on the Venetian Money Market", Review of F.C. Lane and R.C. Mueller, Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, vol. 1: Coins and Moneys of Account (Baltimore and London, 1985); A.M. Stahl, The Venetian Tornesello: A Medieval Colonial Coinage (New York, 1985); and G. Corazzol, Livelli stipulati a Venezia nel 1591 (Venice, 1986), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 2 (1987), pp. 117-122. 4. Review of B. Lewis, The Jews of Islam (Princeton, 1984) in The Historian, 49 (1987), pp. 387-389. 5. Review of A. Thevet, Cosmographie du Levant, ed. F. Lestringant (Geneva, 1985), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 5/1 (June, 1990), pp. 95-97. 6. Review of M. Balard, Les croisades (Paris, 1988), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 6 (1991), pp. 116-117. 7. Review of P. Edbury, The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374 (Cambridge, 1991), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 7 (1992), pp. 230-231. 8. Review of P. Edbury, The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374 (Cambridge, 1991), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 7 (1992), pp. 230-231. 9. Review of G. Migliardi O'Riordan, Archivio del consolato veneto a Cipro (fine XVII - inizio XIX). Inventario e regesti (Venice, 1993), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 8 (1993), pp. 243-248. 10. Review of M.P. Pedani, In nome del Gran Signore: Inviati ottomani a Venezia dalla caduta di Costantinopoli alla guerra di Candia (Venice, 1994), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 9 (1994), pp. 281-284. 11. Review of P. Brummett, Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery (New York, 1994), in New Perspectives on Turkey, 14 (1996), pp. 127-140 [including Brummett's response]. 12. Review of P.M. Kitromilides and M.L. Evriviades (eds), Cyprus, revised edition, World Bibliographical Series vol. 28 (Oxford 1995), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 14/1 (June 1999), pp. 73-74. 13. Review of E. Kittell and T. Madden (eds), Medieval and Renaissance Venice (Chicago 1999), The Medieval Review [online], 00.03.18, pp. 1-11. 14. Review of R.C. Mueller, The Venetian Money Market. Banks, Panics, and the Public
Debt, 1200-1500 (Baltimore & London 1997), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 16/2
(Dec. 2001), pp. 88-90
15. Review of Maria Pia Pedani, Dalla frontiera al confine, Quaderni di studi Arabi. Studi e
testi, 5. Venezia-Roma, 2002, in Mediterranean Historical Review 19/2 (2004), pp. 103-106.
16. Review the Hebrew translation of of Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms. The
World of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Carmel, Jerusalem 2005), Zmanim, 97 (Winter 2007),
pp. 106-110. [in Hebrew]
17. Review of Paskalis Kitromilides, Κυπριακή Λογιοσυνή, 1571-1878. Προσωπογραφική
Θεώρηση, Κέντρο Επιστηµονικών Ερυνών, Πηγές και Μελέτες της Κυπριακής
Ιστορίας, XLIII (Nicosia, 2002), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 21/2 (2006),
pp. 280-281.
18. Review of Damien Coulon, Barcelone et le grand commerce d’Orient au Moyen Age. Un
siècle de relations avec l’Égypte et la Syrie-Palestine (ca. 1330-ca. 1430), Casa Velásquez,
Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (Madrid-Barcelona, 2004) (Bibliothèque de la Casa
Velásquez, vol. 27, in Mamluk Studies Review 11/1 (Jan.2007), pp. 225-232.
19. Review of Paola Lanaro (ed.), At the Center of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing
in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800 (Toronto, 2006), in The American
Historical Review, Feb. 2008, pp. 276-278.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
“Ashkenazi, Solomon”; “Nicolay, Nicholas”; “Passi, David” in The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, Leiden, forthcoming)

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