Frontier narratives : liminal lives in the early modern Mediterranean / Steven Hutchinson.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "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." --provided by publisher
- Contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- Outlines of the Mediterranean
- Genres and writers
- Mediterranean frontier literature
- Chapter overview
- 2. Slaves
- Modes of slavery in the Mediterranean world
- Becoming slaves
- Enslaved women
- 3. Renegades
- Terms, significance, sources
- Symmetries and asymmetries
- Renegade profiles
- Apprehending the enigma and the spectrum
- 4. Martyrs
- Cervantine prelude
- Theatres of cruelty
- Faces of martyrdom
- Martyrdom in perspective
- 5. Counternarratives
- Portraying the Moriscos
- Divergent accounts
- Telling other stories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- OCLC:
- 1120095827
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