Frontier Narratives

Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Steven Hutchinson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4643-4 (ISBN)

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This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and ‘renegades’ developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the ‘others’ thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean. -- .

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 -- .

1 Introduction
2 Slaves
3 Renegades
4 Martyrs
5 Counternarratives
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Manchester University Press
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5261-4643-6 / 1526146436
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-4643-4 / 9781526146434
Zustand	Neuware