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Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Facing Tunis

By: Cristelle L. Baskins

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Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Facing Tunis

By: Cristelle L. Baskins

This book explores an anonymous sixteenth-century portrait of Muley al-Hassan, the Hafsid king of Tunis (ca. 1528–1550), that bears witness to relations between North Africa, the Habsburgs, and the Ottomans. While Muley al-Hassan appears frequently in the vast literature on Charles V Habsburg, he is overshadowed by the emperor. Here he emerges as a protagonist, a figure whose shifting reputation can be traced well into the seventeenth century. Images of the King of Tunis circulated in broadsheets, ephemeral images made for triumphal entries, manuscripts, tapestry designs, engravings, and books. The ceaseless production of Tunisian imagery allowed Europeans to face their North African counterparts through scenes of battle but also through imaginary encounters and festive cross-dressing. This book shows how portraits of Hafsid rulers challenge assumptions about the absolute divide between Christian and Muslim, sovereign and subject, the familiar and the foreign, and they put a face on the entangled histories of the early modern Mediterranean.

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3031050797

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9783031050794

Cassone Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy

By: Cristelle Louise Baskins

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Cassone Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy

By: Cristelle Louise Baskins

Overlooked in traditional studies of Italian Art, cassone (decorated chest) painting was nonetheless a popular genre in Early Renaissance Tuscany. Made by anonymous painters for undocumented patrons, these decorated chests display 'high' art subject matter, a contradiction that has discouraged the study of domestic pictures within traditional art history. In this study, Cristelle Baskins questions the traditional readings of cassone imagery as merely didactic or moralising. Drawing on historical context and poststructuralist textual interpretation, she argues that these pieces performed an important role in the socialisation and gender formation of women during the Renaissance. Invariably depicting exemplary women from classical mythology, cassone, Baskins demonstrates, invite a range of responses, ranging from coercion to pleasure. Her study also shows how these domestic pictures contribute to revisionist approaches within cultural and literary studies of the Renaissance.

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0521583934

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9780521583930

Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Facing Tunis

By: Cristelle L. Baskins

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Book's by Cristelle L. Baskins

Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Cassone Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy

Cassone Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy

Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean

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