罗杰·克劳利(Roger Crowley),历史学家。他出生于英格兰,剑桥大学毕业后,曾久居伊斯坦布尔,并对土耳其的历史产生了浓厚的兴趣。他花费数年时间广泛游历了地中海世界,这使他拥有对地中海的渊博的历史和地理知识。著有“地中海史诗三部曲”《1453》《海洋帝国》和《财富之城》。
The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-hundred-year voyage of Venice to the pinnacle of power.
Tracing the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga for the first time, City of Fortune is framed around two of the great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminated in the sacking of Constantinople and the carve-up of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, and the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which saw the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between were three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance—years of plunder and plague, conquest and piracy—during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grew into the richest place on earth.
Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. Defiant of emperors, indifferent to popes, the Venetians saw themselves as reluctant freebooters, compelled to take to the open seas “because we cannot live otherwise and know not how except by trade.” From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. Only an author with Roger Crowley’s deep knowledge of post-Crusade history could put these iconic events into their proper context.
Epic in scope, magisterial in its understanding of the period, City of Fortune is narrative history at its most engrossing.
难以想象如今的著名旅游城市曾经如此辉煌。 这是一个海洋霸权输给陆地霸权,分散的商人共和利益和体制输给高效的中央集权的军事体制,分裂内讧的基督教,输给以信仰为生的伊斯兰教的故事。 简单记录一下这个我之前完全不知道的盛极一时、控制整个欧亚非三洲商业的海洋帝国的...
评分难以想象如今的著名旅游城市曾经如此辉煌。 这是一个海洋霸权输给陆地霸权,分散的商人共和利益和体制输给高效的中央集权的军事体制,分裂内讧的基督教,输给以信仰为生的伊斯兰教的故事。 简单记录一下这个我之前完全不知道的盛极一时、控制整个欧亚非三洲商业的海洋帝国的...
评分2015年初的时候,我本没有对威尼斯抱太大期望,仅安排了两天行程,蜻蜓点水掠过。然而威尼斯给了我惊喜。这是一座精致典雅的水城, 相比起中国的周庄那些水乡,又多了一些历史的厚重。但夕阳西下,落日余晖映在水面浸染万物金黄色。在这张桀骜不驯的照片中,我老婆笑我成了铜人。 ...
评分从中古欧洲来看,作为海洋城邦崛起的威尼斯并非寡例,但优越的地理位置和商人国家制度则确保了它从与热那亚,比萨等同位面的竞争中脱颖而出,取得了最引人注目的持久成功。 地理位置上不难看出威尼斯的优越性,它位于亚得里亚海最深处,背靠广袤的欧陆腹地和多条贸易路线终点,...
评分To the honor and profit of Venice
评分语言美妙如诗歌。讲得一手好故事,栩栩如生,引人入胜。综合评价4星,额外因为填补我知识的空白而+1星。
评分五百年兴衰 其兴也勃焉 其亡也忽焉 最后一章的总结很准确 商业立国 注定了不得久远 可是谁又能说衡量存在的标准就一定得是遗迹与残垣?威尼斯开创的商业模式经荷兰与英国一路传承并发扬光大 又何尝不是某种意义上更历久弥新的存在?
评分看的地中海三部曲的第二本,Roger Crowley的独到之处在于用写小说的手法写历史,因而把历史的探索之旅变得更为生动有趣,特别是本书精彩还原了威尼斯共和国的崛起到衰落的过程。第四次十字军东征和攫取君士坦丁堡使得威尼斯开始成为海上霸主,与热内亚的四次交战则确立了其牢固的海洋霸主地位,然而随着土耳其奥斯曼帝国的崛起,海洋霸权最终输给了陆地霸权。
评分To the honor and profit of Venice
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