ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Unveiling Networks: Slavery and the European ENcounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700)
From the late sixteenth century, enslaved Muslims were found across Mediterranean Europe, hosted in all major port towns in France, Spain and Italy. Mainly North Africans, Turks and Moriscos seized in the Mediterranean during the skirmishes between Christian and Ottoman forces, their movements and activities left traces across many European and Middle Eastern archives. Some were sold to become domestic slaves, some were traded in exchange for Christian prisoners in Islamic land, while the majority were employed to row on board the galleys. Their hybrid position, spanning geographical and cultural boundaries, allowed them to move across two worlds, in some cases literally importing goods and…
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