The “Mediterranean” through Arab Eyes in the Early Modern Period:

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-35
Author(s):  
Nabil Matar
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Mediterranean

Visions of Deliverance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayte Green-Mercado
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
End Times

This book traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean. Challenging a historiography that has primarily understood Morisco apocalyptic thought as the expression of a defeated group that was conscious of the loss of their culture and identity, this book depicts Moriscos not simply as helpless victims of Christian oppression but as political actors whose use of end-times discourse helped define and construct their society anew. The book helps us understand the implications of confessionalization, forced conversion, and assimilation in the early modern period and the intellectual and theological networks that shaped politics and identity across the Mediterranean in this era.

scholarly journals Herkules i Gerion, królowie Hiszpanii. Mit i jego recepcja w iberyjskich kronikach dobry średniowiecza i nowożytności

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-125
Author(s):  
Dawid Barbarzak
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
New World ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Middle Ages

The ancient myth about Hercules’ expedition to the island of Erythea, his combat with Geryon and setting the Pillars was adopted by the authors of Iberian chronicles from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The paper responds to the question of how the myth was being changed by the authors and what their political or genealogical aim related with the historical period was. The analysis of ancient sources and the comparison with chosen Iberian chronicles proves that the character of Hercules was intentionally adapted for creating old dynastic genealogies, a model of good king or founding myths of Spanish cities (as Cádiz and A Coruña). For similar reasons, Spanish colonial expansion changed also the idea of the Pillars of Hercules which were not perceived as the boundary of the Mediterranean anymore but became a gate to the New World.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Carmen Fracchia
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Mediterranean

The African presence in imperial Spain, from the last quarter of the fifteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century, was due to institutionalization of the transatlantic slave trade that brought 700,000–800,000 Africans as slaves to the Crowns of Portugal, Aragon, and Castile. During the same period and in the same territories, the Mediterranean slave trade was responsible for the presence of 300,000–400,000 Moor, Berber, and Turk slaves. According to Alessandro Stella, if we add those born in these European territories, there were approximately two million slaves living in the Iberian Peninsula and islands during the early modern period. The black presence was ubiquitous in the south of these territories and in the main cities of the centre and the north, as we shall see in ...

scholarly journals Early cyrillic printed books and the migration of decorative forms between the Adriatic and the Danube around 1500

Zograf ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Vladimir Simic
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Danube Region ◽  
The Mediterranean

The article focuses on the artistic transfer of the early printed books from the Cetinje printing shop, between the Mediterranean and the Danube region in the late medieval and early modern period. The master-printer Makarije made these books under the influence of the Italian, German and Slavonic printers operating in Venice. He later traveled throughout Southeastern Europe, spreading their influence to the Wallachian principality. The paper analyzes and compares the decorative elements in these books in order to understand their origin. The migration and the reception of the artistic elements of Makarije?s incunabula allow us to discover artistic dissemination routes.

From Craft to Institution: Accounting in Italy from the Middle ages to the Early Modern Period

2012 ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Professional Field

The article describes the evolution of accounting from the simple registration technique to economic and social institution in medieval Italy. We used methods of institutional analysis and historical research. It is shown that the institutionalization of accounting had been completed by the XIV century, when it became a system of codified technical standards, scholar discipline and a professional field. We examine the interrelations of this process with business environment, political, social, economic and cultural factors of Italy by the XII—XVI centuries. Stages of institutionalization are outlined.

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