Frontier narratives : Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Name: Frontier narratives
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526146434
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ISBN: 9781526146434

by Steven Hutchinson

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Format Hardback

Book Series Manchester University Press

ISBN-10 1526146436

ISBN-13 9781526146434

Publisher Manchester University Press

Imprint Manchester University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 7th, 2020

Print length 240 Pages

Weight 517 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 15.60 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 European history Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 History European history

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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.

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