Visible Strangers

Early Modern Urban Identities, Social Visibility, and the Mediterranean Paradigm

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-09
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt574 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Early Modern European History
Antal sidor280
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526182050

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Introduction – Filomena Viviana TagliaferriPart I: Homogenising and brokering: State management and early modern migrants1 Overcoming language barriers in Dalmatian urban space: Public notaries in the city of Zadar in the mid-17th century – Filip Novosel2 Representatives and negotiation between immigrants and the authorities in the city of Venice, 1540–1700 – Tamsin Prideaux3 Fashion, opulence and extravagance: Clothing and sumptuary laws in Early Modern Malta – Carmel CassarPart II: Minorities, visibility, and exclusion: Jews, Gypsies, and Muslims in catholic spaces4 Sharing, community, rivalry: Urban spaces and Jews in the Adriatic in the early modern period – Luca Andreoni5 Refugees or public thieves? The Gitanos and the right of asylum in churches in Hapsburg Spain – Maria Gloria Tumminelli6 Questioning differences. Some Remarks on conversions, tolerance and coexistence in early modern Italy – Serena Di NepiPart III: To Be is to do: Material practices, visibility, and identity in Ottoman and catholic cities7 Material practices as identity markers: Constantinople/Istanbul and its residents in the travelogue of the Russian pilgrim Ioann Lukyanov, 1702 – Alexandr Osipian8 Gifting servals and ransoming people: The Mediterranean voyages of Andrea di Luca Pitti (1551–55) – Matteo Calcagni9 ‘They were not Catholic, and they wanted to eat meat’. The expression of cultural affiliation through eating choices in early modern Valletta (17th-18th centuries) – Filomena Viviana TagliaferriEpilogue. From Mediterraneanism to Thalassological Third-Space: The Case of Mobile Chinese Heritages in the South China Sea – Sim Hinman WanIndex