- Departamento de Historia Moderna
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Módulo VI
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid
- Early Modern History, Spanish History, The Spanish Inquisition, Renegades, Moriscos, Corsairs, and 28 moreReligious Conversion, History of Piracy, Redeeming Captives, Modern Spanish History, History of the Mediterranean, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, History of slavery in the Mediterrenean, Rites of Passage, History of Childhood and Youth, Early Modern Captivity, Suraiya Faroqhi, Inquisición De Sicilia, Ottoman Empire, Mediterranean Studies, Ottoman History, Early modern Ottoman History, Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Empire, Muslim-Christian Relation, History of Missions, Eastern Catholic Churches, History of Slavery, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Inquisition, Intelligence and Espionage, Early Modern Europe, Mediterranean and North Africa, Ottoman-Habsburg relations, and Early modern Spainedit
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Abstract: The Renegades Between the First and the Second Stage of the Inquisición de la Mar: Variants and Constants (1571-1624) This essay focuses on a peculiar category of convicts, numerically and qualitatively relevant in archival... more
Abstract: The Renegades Between the First and the Second Stage of the Inquisición de la Mar: Variants and Constants (1571-1624)
This essay focuses on a peculiar category of convicts, numerically and qualitatively relevant in archival records regarding both stages of this court: Christians who turned Turk, the so-called renegades. Christian who converted to Islam deserve special attention not just because the Inquisition of the sea only sentenced four persons to death and they were all apostates, but also because thanks to their stories it will be possible to examine the complexity of Christian-Islamic interactions, as well as the operational mechanisms of an essentially Mediterranean and naval inquisitorial court. By analyzing their life stories and their inquisitorial experiences, it is possible to focus on changes and continuities in the Inquisition’s posture between the first and the second period of the Inquisition of the sea, as well as to focus on which political and social circumstances determined such evolution.
This essay focuses on a peculiar category of convicts, numerically and qualitatively relevant in archival records regarding both stages of this court: Christians who turned Turk, the so-called renegades. Christian who converted to Islam deserve special attention not just because the Inquisition of the sea only sentenced four persons to death and they were all apostates, but also because thanks to their stories it will be possible to examine the complexity of Christian-Islamic interactions, as well as the operational mechanisms of an essentially Mediterranean and naval inquisitorial court. By analyzing their life stories and their inquisitorial experiences, it is possible to focus on changes and continuities in the Inquisition’s posture between the first and the second period of the Inquisition of the sea, as well as to focus on which political and social circumstances determined such evolution.
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The purpose of this research is to analyse the role played by Christian renegades in the context of the Ottoman–Habsburg rivalry. As historians have long pointed out, in order to control the seemingly everlasting Ottoman expansion, the... more
The purpose of this research is to analyse the role played by Christian
renegades in the context of the Ottoman–Habsburg rivalry. As
historians have long pointed out, in order to control the seemingly
everlasting Ottoman expansion, the Spanish Monarchy poised
throughout the whole sixteenth century between open war and
elusive diplomatic methods, such as secretly negotiating with highrank
renegades on the Ottoman-payroll. By focusing on the case
of Hacı Murad, a powerful Algiers-based renegade and diplomat
made famous by Miguel de Cervantes’ Captive’s Tale, this essay seeks
to uncover the rhetorical patterns that hide behind inter-religious
negotiations with renegades, especially in the years that followed the
Moriscos rebellion of 1568–71 and the emblematic Battle of Lepanto.
renegades in the context of the Ottoman–Habsburg rivalry. As
historians have long pointed out, in order to control the seemingly
everlasting Ottoman expansion, the Spanish Monarchy poised
throughout the whole sixteenth century between open war and
elusive diplomatic methods, such as secretly negotiating with highrank
renegades on the Ottoman-payroll. By focusing on the case
of Hacı Murad, a powerful Algiers-based renegade and diplomat
made famous by Miguel de Cervantes’ Captive’s Tale, this essay seeks
to uncover the rhetorical patterns that hide behind inter-religious
negotiations with renegades, especially in the years that followed the
Moriscos rebellion of 1568–71 and the emblematic Battle of Lepanto.
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The aim of this paper is to examine one of the most recurrent topics in Christian sources related to early modern conversions to Islam: the young age of captives as a risk factor for apostasies. By studying some of the most... more
The aim of this paper is to examine one of
the most recurrent topics in Christian
sources related to early modern
conversions to Islam: the young age of
captives as a risk factor for apostasies. By
studying some of the most representative
16th and 17th century treaties on captivity
and redemption, as well as the letters that
Christian captives wrote from Tunisia to
the Arciconfraternita per la Redenzione dei
Cattivi in Santa Maria la Nova – an
institution specialised in redeeming Sicilian
captives, founded in Palermo in 1596 – this
paper tries to follow the thread which
connects captivity, youth and conversions
to Islam
the most recurrent topics in Christian
sources related to early modern
conversions to Islam: the young age of
captives as a risk factor for apostasies. By
studying some of the most representative
16th and 17th century treaties on captivity
and redemption, as well as the letters that
Christian captives wrote from Tunisia to
the Arciconfraternita per la Redenzione dei
Cattivi in Santa Maria la Nova – an
institution specialised in redeeming Sicilian
captives, founded in Palermo in 1596 – this
paper tries to follow the thread which
connects captivity, youth and conversions
to Islam
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In 1548 the Genoese Giovanni Antonio Menavino published a book entitled Trattato de costumi et vita de Turchi, ispired by his childhood experience as a captive and an icoglan inside the Imperial palace of Istanbul (1504-1514). Menavino’s... more
In 1548 the Genoese Giovanni Antonio Menavino published a book entitled Trattato de costumi et vita de Turchi, ispired by his childhood experience as a captive and an icoglan inside the Imperial palace of Istanbul (1504-1514). Menavino’s work is a key source for the study of the relationships between the Cross and the Crescent in the early modern period, simoultaneously for the undestanding of captivity, childhood captivity and of the perception of Turkey and the Muslims in coeval Christian literature
La presente tesis se centra en la cuestión de los cristianos convertidos al islam – los llamados renegados– entre la segunda mitad del siglo XVI y los años veinte del siglo XVII, desde la doble perspectiva del Santo Oficio español y de... more
La presente tesis se centra en la cuestión de los cristianos convertidos al islam – los llamados renegados– entre la segunda mitad del siglo XVI y los años veinte del siglo XVII, desde la doble perspectiva del Santo Oficio español y de los servicios de espionaje que la Monarquía Hispánica desplegó en la región mediterránea.
Tomando Sicilia como punto de partida – territorio especialmente comprometido en la aventura de los cristianos de Alá por su historia y por su localización fronteriza – la autora se aproxima, ante todo, al mundo inquisitorial, analizando la dicotomía que terminó distanciando su discurso jurídico-teórico, riguroso y utópico, y su actitud real, en buena medidavpragmática y moderada.
En paralelo, se analiza la injerencia que tuvo el Santo Oficio siciliano sobre numerosas actividades de intelligence anti-otomano como, por ejemplo, el alistamiento, en calidad de espías e informantes, de aquellos mismos reos que el tribunal pretendía juzgar por herejes islamizantes.
Esta tesis defiende la idea de que el reclutamiento de agentes renegados – que se realizó entre los presos de la Inquisición, pero también en tierras otomano-berberiscas mediante negociaciones secretas – supuso la búsqueda de un difícil equilibrio entre ventajas prácticas y desventajas simbólicas, una dualidad que surgió a raíz del necesario aprovechamiento militar y estratégico de servicios e informaciones ofrecidas por supuestos traidores de Dios y de la Monarquía.
Tomando Sicilia como punto de partida – territorio especialmente comprometido en la aventura de los cristianos de Alá por su historia y por su localización fronteriza – la autora se aproxima, ante todo, al mundo inquisitorial, analizando la dicotomía que terminó distanciando su discurso jurídico-teórico, riguroso y utópico, y su actitud real, en buena medidavpragmática y moderada.
En paralelo, se analiza la injerencia que tuvo el Santo Oficio siciliano sobre numerosas actividades de intelligence anti-otomano como, por ejemplo, el alistamiento, en calidad de espías e informantes, de aquellos mismos reos que el tribunal pretendía juzgar por herejes islamizantes.
Esta tesis defiende la idea de que el reclutamiento de agentes renegados – que se realizó entre los presos de la Inquisición, pero también en tierras otomano-berberiscas mediante negociaciones secretas – supuso la búsqueda de un difícil equilibrio entre ventajas prácticas y desventajas simbólicas, una dualidad que surgió a raíz del necesario aprovechamiento militar y estratégico de servicios e informaciones ofrecidas por supuestos traidores de Dios y de la Monarquía.