Visible Strangers: Early Modern Urban Identities, Social Visibility, and the Mediterranean Paradigm (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526182050)

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.

Author: Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri
ISBN-10: 152618205X
ISBN-13: 9781526182050
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover