A01=Steven Hutchinson
Author_Steven Hutchinson
Category=DSBD
Category=NHD
counternarratives
early modern Mediterranean
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frontier zones
Islam
literary Mediterranean
martyrdom
Moriscos
renegades
slavery
women
Product details
- ISBN 9781526167071
- Weight: 345g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 2022
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages. The Muslim-Christian divide in the region produced an unusual kind of slavery, fostered a surge in conversion to Islam and offered an ideal habitat for Catholic martyrdom. The book argues that identities and alterities were multiple, that there was no war between Christianity and Islam and that commerce prevailed over ideology and dogma. Inspired by Braudel, who asserts that ‘the Mediterranean speaks with many voices; it is a sum of individual histories’, it endeavors to allow the people of the early modern Mediterranean to speak for themselves.
Steven Hutchinson is Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
