This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers
during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the
Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Contrary to many studies on
this topic, this book neither focuses on a specific frontier nor
attempts to provide an overview of all the imperial frontiers.
Instead, it focuses on a specific individual: Juan Rena (1480–1539).
This Venetian clergyman spent 40 years serving the king in several
capacities while travelling from the Maghreb to northern Spain, from
the Pyrenees to the western fringes of the Ottoman Empire. By focusing
on his activities, the book offers an account of the Spanish
Empire’s frontiers as a vibrant political space where a multiplicity
of figures interacted to shape power relations from below.
Furthermore, it describes how merchants, military officers, nobles,
local elites and royal agents forged a specific political culture in
the empire’s liminal spaces. Through their negotiations and
cooperation, but also through their competition and clashes, they
created practices and norms in areas like cross-cultural diplomacy,
the making of the social fabric, the definition of new jurisdictions,
and the mobilization of resources for war.
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ISBN
9781000073690
Publisert
2020
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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