ABSTRACT
Benjamin Arbel is Professor in the School of History at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the history of the Mediterranean area in the late-medieval and early-modern periods. His recent publications include Cyprus, the Franks, and Venice, 13th-16th Centuries (2000), Trading Nations: Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean (1995), Intercultural Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour o f D. Jacoby (1995), and ‘Cyprus under Venetian Rule’, in History o f Cyprus, ed. Th. Papadopoullos (1996), pp.455-536 [in Greek].
