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" Images at the Crossroads: Representing Christian-Muslim Encounters in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean "
Catherine Infante
Hutchinson, Steven
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804664
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TL49499
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1937580995; 10185244
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Hartley, John Patrick
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Images at the Crossroads: Representing Christian-Muslim Encounters in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean\ Catherine InfanteHutchinson, Steven
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The University of Wisconsin - Madison
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2014
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Ph.D.
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Spanish
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2014
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213
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Committee members: Alcalá Galán, Mercedes; Ancos García, Pablo; Cowell, Dustin C.; Hildner, David J.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-11261-0
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In 1670 Gabriel Gómez de Losada wrote a treatise on Mediterranean captivity, including the capture and ransom of a coveted effigy of Christ that circulated among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in early modern Algiers. In his treatise, the captive image is, surprisingly, desired and valued—albeit for different motives—by members of diverse cultural and religious communities, and it is this image that brings these groups into contact with one another. This dissertation examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth century writers, such as Gómez de Losada, Miguel de Cervantes, and Lope de Vega, represent Christian-Muslim encounters that center upon religious images, including those of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Drawing on a wide variety of fictional and nonfictional texts in Spanish, Arabic, and Aljamiado (Spanish written in Arabic script), this study demonstrates how images that crossed geographic, cultural, and religious boundaries influenced how early modern writers portrayed relations between Christians and Muslims, and how these images became a site of contact between individuals within these groups. While a sophisticated body of scholarship currently covers a broad range of perspectives of Muslims in Spain and interactions between Christians and Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean, the role images play in these encounters has been largely absent from literary studies. By examining a variety of texts that present written descriptions of images, this project addresses the current gap and offers a new perspective of how Christian-Muslim relations were perceived and conveyed through writing. This new perspective enriches our understanding of interreligious and multicultural relationships in Spain and throughout the Mediterranean.
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Romance literature; Religion; Spanish; Cultural differences; Jews; Arabic language; Cultural factors; Multiculturalism pluralism
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Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Christian-Muslim relations;Early modern mediterranean;Religious images;Spanish literature;de Cervantes, Miguel;de Vega, Lope
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Hutchinson, Steven
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SpanishThe University of Wisconsin - Madison
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