Gender and Identity between Venice and the Mediterranean
This chapter focuses on Cyurω, Giovanni Bembo’s Corfiote wife. It traces her experiences and encounters, in Venice and in the Mediterranean world. Cyurω’s social and cultural identities and sources of belonging were constantly in flux, as she moved between Venice and the Mediterranean, encountered Venetian aristocrats and Greek scholars and subjects, was subject and ruler. Tracing these changing ways of belonging shows that categories of identity could be wafer-thin, permeating the boundaries between governor and governed, between wife and servant, between exalted mother of aristocratic children and scorned outsider who threatened the integrity of the nobility.
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2010 ◽
Vol 52
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pp. 948-950