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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Early Modern Mediterranean"”.
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The System of Lazzaretti in the Early Modern Mediterranean
… of lazzaretti - quarantine centres - in the early modern Mediterranean. Merchants, travellers, sailors and goods were quarantined and disinfected inside vast complexes built in port cities and trading posts on the most trafficked trade routes of the Republic of Venice, the Austrian Littoral, …
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Locating an Ottoman Port-City in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Izmir 1580-1780
… historiography considers Izmir as a case of early modern “boom town.” Its transformation from a mere pier for the provisions of Istanbul into a bustling trans-regional port-city, so the standard narrative goes, was due to mercantilist penetration by English and Dutch chartered companies at a …
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THE PLAGUE AND THE PARTHENON: CRUSADE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASE IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN
<p>The present study examines the role epidemic diseases, specifically malaria and bubonic plague, played on the course of the Morean War (1684-1699). The Morean War was a major offensive by Christian powers, led by the Venetian Republic, against Ottoman controlled Greece. Christian victories …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
… and slave trading have been endemic to the Mediterranean since antiquity. However, from the mid-sixteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth-century, these phenomena – known at the time as corso – grew exponentially, both in volume and impact. For more than a century, corso played a …
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Sixteenth Century Morisco Devotional Manuscripts in their Mediterranean Contexts
… also other confessional communities in the wider early modern Mediterranean. I argue that the Moriscos should be understood as complex and dynamic communities and participants in the spaces in which they lived. The thesis begins with an historical overview of Morisco communities in sixteenth …
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Salvation in Times of Survival: The Singular Voice of a Crypto-Muslim Scholar in Sixteenth Century Spain
… of al-Andalus throughout the medieval and early modern period. Yet, following the conquest of Nasrid Granada in 1492, the scholastic and cultural terrain of mudejar existence was irrevocably transformed. How did Moriscos—Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism throughout the sixteenth …