Frontier Narratives : Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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| Title: | Frontier Narratives : Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Steven Hutchinson |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500, Frontier and pioneer life--Mediterranean Region, Enslaved persons--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500, Christianity and other religions--Islam--History--To 1500, Muslims--Mediterranean Region--History, Jews--Mediterranean Region--History, Christians--Mediterranean Region--History |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Africa / North, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Spain, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781526146434 9781526167071 9781526146427 9781526146441 |
