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Ioann Lukyanov
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Product details
- ISBN 9781526182050
- Weight: 574g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Visible strangers is a collection of essays on the nature of cultural pluralism in the Mediterranean and the different ways in which this was managed in various cities during the early modern period. The book’s nine chapters considers new case studies, where authors offer a diachronic view of the nature of the co-presence of minorities in different urban spaces, investigated through the lens of the fascinating relationship between visibility and identity. The considered case studies cover different areas of the Mediterranean space: the Adriatic, the Ottoman empire between Asia and Africa, the Italian and Iberian peninsulas, the island of Malta, at the centre of the Mare Nostrum and host to many of its influences. The analysis of the way cultural pluralism expressed itself wishes to overcome the bias induced by ‘Mediterraneanism’, that has led to the Mediterranean as an area of study hardening into a conceptual category.
Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri is a Lecturer of Early Modern History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and a Research Fellow in Early Modern History and the Institute of Mediterranean Europe History of the Italian Research Council (ISEM-CNR)
