Stagno / Franco Llopis Lepanto and Beyond

Images of Religious Alterity from Genoa and the Christian Mediterranean
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6166-373-3
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten

Interdisciplinary approach to the Iberian and Italian perceptions and representations of the Battle of Lepanto and the Muslim “other”

The Battle of Lepanto, celebrated as the greatest triumph of Christianity over its Ottoman enemy, was soon transformed into a powerful myth through a vast media campaign. The varied storytelling and the many visual representations that contributed to shape the perception of the battle in Christian Europe are the focus of this book. In broader terms, Lepanto and Beyond also sheds light on the construction of religious alterity in the early modern Mediterranean. It presents cross-disciplinary case studies that explore the figure of the Muslim captive in historical documentation, artistic depictions, and literature. With a focus on the Republic of Genoa, the authors also aim to balance the historical scale and restore the important role of the Genoese in the general scholarly discussion of Lepanto and its images.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Stagno, Laura

Franco Llopis, Borja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Schlachten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

PART I. OTHERNESS AND CONFRONTATION IN EARLY MODERN SOUTHERN EUROPE

1. A Brief Review of the Scholarly Literature on Representation of the “Turk” and images of Lepanto in Italy and Iberia Laura Stagno and Borja Franco Llopis

2. Multiple Alterities in the Ottoman Empire Steven Hutchinson

PART 2. LEPANTO: THE BATTLE, ITS NARRATIVES, ITS ICONOGRAPHIES

3. Event and Narration. Spanish Storytelling on the Battle of Lepanto in the Early 1570s Stefan Hanß

4. A Sea of Dead Turks: Lepanto and the Iconographies of Hell and the Flood Víctor Mínguez

5. Lepanto in Religious Iconographies: The Genoese Case Daniele Sanguineti

6. Accusation, Defense and Self-Defense: The Debate on the Action of Giovanni Andrea Doria in Lepanto Emiliano Beri

7. Celebrating Lepanto in the Republic of Genoa: Giovanni Andrea Doria’s and Other Aristocrats’ Patronage. Portraits, Paintings and Tapestries Laura Stagno

Gallery Section

8. The Necessary Enemy: Reconsidering the Perception of the “Other” in a Society of War Contractors (Genoa, Spain and the Ottoman Empire – Sixteenth Century) Bastien Carpentier

PART 3. AFTER THE BATTLE: SLAVES BETWEEN REALITY AND REPRESENTATION

9. In the Sign of Reciprocity: Muslim Slaves in Genoa and Genoese Slaves in Maghreb Andrea Zappia
10. The Image of the Turkish Slave in a Peripheral Area of the Pontifical States: The Case of the Cycle of Villa Buonaccorsi in Potenza Picena Giuseppe Capriotti

11. ‘Cet obscur objet du désir’: Sex and Slavery in Early Modern Spanish Fiction Mercedes Alcalá Galán

Illustration Credits About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Stagno, Laura
Laura Stagno is associate professor of early modern art history at the University of Genoa and Scientific Director of the Museum of Palazzo del Principe in Genoa.

Franco Llopis, Borja
Borja Franco Llopis is associate professor of early modern art history at the UNED (Madrid), and principal investigator of the International Research Group “Before Orientalism: Images of the Muslim Other in Iberia”.