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Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, this book examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and translator between cultures.
List of contents
Introduction
Claire Norton
Part 1: Trans-Imperial Subjects: Geo-Political Spatialities, Political Advancement and Conversion
1. Trans-Imperial Nobility: The Case of Carlo Cigala (1556-1631)
Tobias P. Graf
2. Conversion Under the Threat of Arms: Converts and Renegades during the War for Crete (1645-1669)
Domagoj Maduni¿
3. Conversion to Islam (and Sometimes a Return to Christianity) in Safavid Persia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Giorgio Rota
4. Danube-Hopping: Conversion, Jurisdiction and Spatiality Between the Ottoman Empire and the Danubian Principalities in the Seventeenth Century
Michä Wasiucionek
Part 2: Fashioning Identities: Conversion and the Threat to Self
5. The Early Modern Convert as "Public Property": A Typology of Turning
Palmira Brummett
6. The Moment of Choice: The Moriscos on the Border of Christianity and Islam
Houssam Eddine Chachia
7. "Saving a Slave, Saving a Soul": The Rhetoric of Losing the True Faith in Seventeenth-Century Italian Textual and Visual Sources
Rosita D'Amora
Part 3: Translating the Self: Devotion, Hybridity and Religious Conversion
8. Antitrinitarians and Conversion to Islam: Adam Neuser Reads Murad b. Abdullah in Ottoman Istanbul
Martin Mulsow
9. The Many Languages of the Self in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Anselm Turmeda/'Abdall¿h al-Tarjum¿n (1355-1423) - Friar, Muslim Convert and Translator
Elisabetta Benigni
About the author
Claire Norton is Reader in History at St Mary's University, Twickenham.
Summary
Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, this book examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and translator between cultures.
