Agents, Mediators, Rebels: Insights into Diplomacy, Trade, and Revolt from the Venetian-Cretan Sources of the Fourteenth Century (1348-63)
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/14123Keywords:
Fourteenth century, Venetian Crete, Aegean, Anatolian emirates, consuls, feudatories, diplomacy, mediation, trade licences, Revolt of Saint TitusAbstract
The revolt of Saint Titus (1363) is traditionally read as the cumulative outcome of tensions between Venice and its Cretan dominion. This article proposes instead an “operative” reading, focusing on how Venetian authority actually functioned in Crete and on the agents who mediated it: notaries, ambassadors, consuls and merchants operating between the island, Venice and the Anatolian emirates. Drawing on Veneto-Cretan council records and trade licences, it argues that mediation was not a factor of stabilisation but the vector of the dominion’s transformation: the revolt was its culmination, not its failure.
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