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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.
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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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Price: £90.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Studies in Early Modern European History
Publication Date: 09 September 2025
ISBN: 9781526182050
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

HISTORY / Modern / General, Social and cultural history, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / General
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Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri is a Lecturer of Early Modern History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and a Research Fellow in Early Modern History and the Institute of Mediterranean Europe History of the Italian Research Council (ISEM-CNR)

Introduction – Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri
Part I: Homogenising and brokering: State management and early modern migrants
1 Overcoming language barriers in Dalmatian urban space: Public notaries in the city of Zadar in the mid-17th century – Filip Novosel
2 Representatives and negotiation between immigrants and the authorities in the city of Venice, 1540–1700 – Tamsin Prideaux
3 Fashion, opulence and extravagance: Clothing and sumptuary laws in Early Modern Malta – Carmel Cassar
Part II: Minorities, visibility, and exclusion: Jews, Gypsies, and Muslims in catholic spaces
4 Sharing, community, rivalry: Urban spaces and Jews in the Adriatic in the early modern period – Luca Andreoni
5 Refugees or public thieves? The Gitanos and the right of asylum in churches in Hapsburg Spain – Maria Gloria Tumminelli
6 Questioning differences. Some Remarks on conversions, tolerance and coexistence in early modern Italy – Serena Di Nepi
Part III: To Be is to do: Material practices, visibility, and identity in Ottoman and catholic cities
7 Material practices as identity markers: Constantinople/Istanbul and its residents in the travelogue of the Russian pilgrim Ioann Lukyanov, 1702 – Alexandr Osipian
8 Gifting servals and ransoming people: The Mediterranean voyages of Andrea di Luca Pitti (1551–55) – Matteo Calcagni
9 ‘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 Tagliaferri
Epilogue. From Mediterraneanism to Thalassological Third-Space: The Case of Mobile Chinese Heritages in the South China Sea – Sim Hinman Wan
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