Benjamin Arbel

Benjamin Arbel is an emeritus modern historian and medievalist at Tel Aviv University , who has primarily dealt with the history of the Republic of Venice , its colonies , Cyprus and Crete , but also repeatedly examined the relationship between humans and animals. In addition, there is the role of Jewish traders in the early modern Mediterranean region and the trade of Venice.

Career

Arbel received his bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern History and General History and his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In Tel Aviv he was appointed to the historical faculty, later became director and founder of the Renaissance Studies program . He also became a member of the commission for the publication of sources on Venetian history at the Venice State Archives and was visiting professor at the University of Venice .

Arbel was co-editor of the Mediterranean Historical Review and The Medieval Mediterranean until 2016 . He was one of the 360 ​​signatories in 2015 who wanted to support the refusal of Israeli soldiers in 2002 to do their service in the occupied territories, as they considered this to be morally reprehensible and not in the interests of Israel.

Works (selection)

Monographs

• Trading Nations. Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean , Brill, Leiden 1995
• Cyprus, the Franks and Venice (13th-16th Centuries) , Ashgate-Variorum, London 2000.
• The Italian Renaissance. The Emergence of a Secular Culture , Tel Aviv 2000 (Heb.)
• Venetian Letters (1354–1512) from the Archives of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and other Cypriot Collections , Nicosia 2007.
• with Bernard Hamilton, David Jacoby: Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204 , London 1989.
• Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean. Studies in Honor of David Jacoby , London 1995.
• with Joseph Terkel, Sophia Menache: בני-אדם וחיות אחרות באספקלריה היסטורית (people and other animals in historical perspective), Jerusalem 2007 (Hebrew).
• (Ed.): Minorities in Colonial Settings: the Jews in Venice's Hellenic Territories , London 2012.
• with Evelien Chayes, Harald Hendrix: Cyprus and the Renaissance , Brepols, Turnhout 2013.

Essays

• with Gilles Veinstein: La fiscalité vénéto-chypriote au miroir de la législation ottomane: le qanunname de 1572 , in: Turcica 18 (1986), pp. 7-51.
• Venezia, gli Ebrei e l'attività di Salomone Ashkenasi nella guerra di Cipro , in: Gaetano Cozzi (ed.): Gli ebrei e Venezia , Milan 1987, pp. 163–197.
• Venetian Trade in Fifteenth-Century Acre: The Letters of Francesco Bevilaqua (1471-72) , in: Asian and African Studies 22 (1988), pp. 227-288.
• A Royal Family in Republican Venice: The Cypriot Legacy of the Corner della Regina , in: Studi Veneziani , ns 15 (1988), pp. 131-152.
• Venice and the Jewish Merchants of Istanbul in the Sixteenth Century , in: A. Toaff, S. Schwarzfuchs (Ed.): The Mediterranean and the Jews: Finance and International Trade (XVIth-XVIIIth Centuries) , Ramat Gan 1989, p. 92 -109.
• Traffici marittimi e sviluppo urbano a Cipro (secoli XIII-XVI) , in Ennio Poleggi (ed.): Città portuali del Mediterraneo , Genua 1989, pp. 89-94.
• Nur Banu (c. 1530–1583): A Venetian Sultana? , in: Turcica 24 (1992), pp. 241-259.
• H Κύπρος υπό Ενετική Κυριαρχία, in: Theodoros Papadopoulos (Ed.): Ιστορία της Κύπρου, Vol. 4, Part A, Nicosia 1995, pp. 455-536.
• Colonie d'Oltremare , in: Alberto Tenenti , Ugo Tucci (eds.): Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima , vol. 5: Il Rinascimento. Società ed economia , Rome 1996, pp. 947-985.
• Attraverso il Mediterraneo nel 1499: una nave veneziana naufragata a Cipro e il suo carico , in Gabriella Airaldi (ed.): Le vie del Mediterraneo. Idea, uomini, oggetti (secoli XI-XVI) , Genua 1997, pp. 103-115.
• Cyprus under Venice: Continuity and Change , in: D. Papanikola-Bakirtzis, M. Iakovou (eds.): Byzantine Medieval Cyprus , Nicosia 1998, pp. 161-174.
• Roots of Poverty and Sources of Richness in Cyprus under Venetian Rule , in: Chryssa A. Maltezou (Hrsg.): Πλούσιοι καί Φτωχοί στην Κοινωνία της Ελληi '35 360
• The Last Decades of Mamluk Trade with Venice , in: Mamluk Studies Review 8.2 (2004), pp. 37-86. ( online , PDF)
• Les listes de chargement des navires vénitiens (XVe-début du XVIe siècle): un essai de typologie , in: Chemins d'outre-mer. Etudes sur la Méditerranée médiévale offertes à Michel Balard , Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 2004, Vol. I, pp. 31-50.
• with Minna Rozen: Great Fire in the Metropolis: The Case of the Istanbul Conflagration of 1569 and its Description by Marcantonio Barbaro , in: Ami Ayalon, David J. Wasserstein: Mamluks and Ottomans. Studies in Honor of Michael Winter , Routledge, London 2006, pp. 134-165.
• Cyprus on the Eve of the Ottoman Conquest , in: Michalis N. Michael, Eftihios Gavriel, Matthias Kappler (eds.): Ottoman Cyprus , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 37-48.
• The Venetian Domination of Cyprus: Cui Bono? , in: Angel Nicolaou-Konnarē, Benjamin Arbel (eds.): La Serenissima and La Nobilissima. Venice in Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice , Nicosia 2009, pp. 45–55.
• The Attitude of Muslims to Animals: Renaissance Perceptions and Beyond , in: Suraiya Faroqhi (Ed.): Animals and People in the Ottoman Empire , in: Istanbulç Eren 2010, pp. 57–74.
• Uwe Israel , Robert Jütte, Reinhold C. Mueller (eds.): Jews and Christians in Sixteenth-Century Crete: Between Segregation and Integration , in: Interstizi: culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei domini veneziani tra basso medioevo e prima epoca moderna , Rome 2010, pp. 281-294.
• The Renaissance Transformation of Animal Meaning: From Petrarch to Montaigne , in: Linda Kalof, Georgina Montgomery (Eds.): Making Animal Meaning , Michigan State University Press, 2011, pp. 59–80.
• La république de Venise et la conquête ottomane de l'Etat mamelouk , in: Benjamin Lellouch, Nicolas Michel (eds.): La conquete ottomane de l'Egypte , Leiden 2012, pp. 113–142.
• Venice's Maritime Empire in the Early Modern Period , in: Eric R. Dursteler (Ed.): A Companion to Venetian History, 1400–1797 , Leiden 2013, pp. 125–253.
• Cypriot Wildlife in Renaissance Writings , in Benjamin Arbel, Evelien Chayes, Harald Hendrix (Eds.): Cyprus and the Renaissance , Turnhout 2013, pp. 321–344.
• Maritime Trade in Famagusta during the Venetian Period (1474–1571) , in: Michael JK Walsh, Tamas Kiss, Nicholas Coureas (eds.): The Harbor of all this Sea and Realm. Crusader to Venetian Famagusta , Budapest 2013, pp. 91-103.
• Translating the Orient for the Serenissima: Michiel Membrè in the Service of Sixteenth-Century Venice , in: Albrech Fuess, Bernard Heyberger (ed.): La frontière méditeranéenne du XVe au XVIIe siècle , Turnhout 2013, pp. 253-281.
• Elijah of Pesaro's Description of Famagusta (1563) , in: Gilles Grivaud, George Tolias (Ed.): Cyprus at the Crossroads. Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century , Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, Athens 2014, pp. 123-136.
• Port Dredging in the Venetian Stato da Mar: the Case of Famagusta (1489–1571) , in: Epetirida (Nicosia: Cyprus Research Center) 37 (2015) 103–144.
• Una chiave di lettura dello Stato da Mar veneziano nell'età moderna: la situazione coloniale , in: Gherardo Ortalli, Oliver J. Schmitt (ed.): Il Commonwealth veneziano , Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti , Venice 2015, p. 155-179.
• The Triumph of the Mule in Sixteenth-Century Cyprus , in: Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Cypriot Studies, Nicosia (in press).
• Mediterranean Jewish Diasporas and the Bill of Exchange: Coping with a Foreign Financial Instrument (14th-17th centuries) , in: Georg Christ (Hrsg.): Union in Separation: Trading Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean (1200–1700) , Rom (im Pressure)

Web links

• Benjamin Arbel , Tel Aviv University website
• Brief description on the University of Venice website
• Benjamin Arbel on Academia.edu

Remarks

1. ↑ Academic Support Pettition (9th place). Courage to Refuse website . Retrieved April 9, 2016.
2. ↑ Union in Separation - Trading Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean (1200-1700) (PDF). Heidelberg University website. Retrieved April 9, 2016.