Objects, in particular those assigned when fathers were marrying off their daughters, are approached as a “vehicle of differentiation and identification” and a constituent element of practices of cultural exchange and appropriation on several different levels. To what extent were identities malleable in Candia? In what ways were the material choices of the female population of Candia shaped by similar choices in Venice? Thus, the project closely investigates the question of identity formation and cultural exchange in a border zone between ‘the East’ and ’Europe’, by exploring the marital lifestyle of specific social groups living in the town and the countryside.

Future plans

Cooperation with partners in Greece, the Netherlands and Italy in the field of identity formation, material culture, consumption patterns, gender studies, fashion and cultural exchange will be beneficial and be planned in the near future.

Publications

• Markaki, T. (2018). Objects and identities: Dowry and material culture in Venetian Crete in regional and European context (1600-1645).
• Markaki, T. (2015). Cultural transfers and social ruptures in Venetian Crete: dowries of distinguished cittadini in seventeenth-century Candia. In K. A. Dimadis (Ed.), 5th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, Thessaloniki: Proceedings: Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures in the Greek World (1204-2014): Economy, Society, History, Literature. - vol 5 (pp. 207-220). Athens: European Society of Modern Greek Studies.