Daniel Hershenzon
Biographic Data
| ID | 299907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Hershenzon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Hershenzon |
| SIGNATURE | HERSHENZON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8511-5514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cimetières islamiques et appartenance locale en Espagne à l’époque moderne
Cet article examine la place des cimetières islamiques dans la définition de l’appartenance locale en Espagne à l’époque moderne, en prenant pour étude de cas la ville portuaire de Carthagène au xviiie siècle. La thèse soutenue est que la gestion des morts musulmans dans les sociétés chrétiennes ibériques ne se réduit pas à un problème de coexistence interconfessionnelle, mais constitue un enjeu de pouvoir et de distinction sociale à l’intérieur …
“In the Streets, You See Nothing but Muslims!”
In 1717, an anonymous petition to the king of Spain expressed concern about the excessive number of Muslims living in Cartagena (Murcia). This complaint prompted the Council of Castile to launch a survey of the Muslim population with the aim of clarifying their status. In addition to galley slaves, the inquiry focused in particular on libertinos , a little-known category of slaves who lived and worked freely in the city but were heavily indebted …
Frontier Narratives
The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern Maghrib
Between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, large quantities of wax were exported from the Maghrib to Europe. In the Maghrib, both raw wax and wax candles were involved in various social interactions that transcended mere environmental and economic considerations. For some Muslims, wax came to index Christianity, and its significance during the celebration of the Prophet's birthday was critiqued as a corrupt innovation. At the same …
Captive Objects
Catholic artifacts—images and sculptures of Christ, the Virgin, and various saints, as well as rosaries, crucifixes, and liturgical objects—circulated in their thousands throughout the early modern western Mediterranean. This mobility was largely an indirect byproduct of privateering and human trafficking, which bound together Spain’s Mediterranean territories, Morocco, and Ottoman Algiers. The disruptive moment of captivity set these otherwise d…
The Maghrib in Europe
Did a slave mosque really operate for decades, out in the open, during the eighteenth century in the port city of Cartagena in Murcia, Spain? An alarmed Inquisitorial report submitted to the Spanish king in September 1769 left no room for doubt — the hospital of the Muslim arsenal slaves in Cartagena functioned as a mosque.1 Its live-in muezzin recited the adhān, the call to worship, from a room on the second floor, and believers convened twice a…
Dans les rues, on ne voit que des musulmans
En 1717, une plainte anonyme adressée au roi d'Espagne s'alarmait du nombre excessif de musulmans vivant à Carthagène (Murcie). Cette supplique déclencha une enquête du Conseil de Castille destinée à recenser les musulmans et à clarifier leur statut. Outre les esclaves des galères royales, l'enquête pointa tout particulièrement les libertinos , une catégorie méconnue d'esclaves privés résidant et travaillant librement dans la ville tout en étant …
Objets captifs
Objets captifs: Les artefacts catholiques en Méditerranée au début de l'époque moderneLes objets de dévotion catholique - images et effigies du Christ, de la Vierge et des saints, missels, rosaires, crucifix et objets liturgiques - ont circulé par milliers dans la Méditerranée occidentale à l'époque moderne. Pour une large part, cette mobilité a été une conséquence indirecte de la piraterie et de la traite d'êtres humains qui interconnectaient le…
The Sultan's Renegades
The Sultan's Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575–1610. Tobias P. Graf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxiv + 262 pp. $100. - Volume 72 Issue 1
The Captive Sea
In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco—in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption formed the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a poli…
“Towards a connected history of bondage in the Mediterranean
This review article examines recent scholarship on Christian captives in the early modern western Mediterranean. It points out how piracy, captivity, and ransom linked the lives of Christian and Muslim captives, and by extension connected Spain, France and the Italian Peninsula with Morocco and Ottoman Algiers and Tunis. It focuses on slavery, captivity, and redemption, namely, on issues of labor, on the importance of writing as a tool to facilit…
Captius i renegats al segle XVII
This is the most recent book by Majorcan historian Onofre Vaquer Bennasar, who has published numerous works on the social and commercial history of the late medieval and early modern Balearic Islan
Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean
The Political Economy of Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean
In 1608, Christian corsairs captured a ten-year-old Algerian girl named Fatima and sold her into slavery in Livorno, Italy. Her father paid her ransom and nearly succeeded in returning her to Algiers. But the ship that was intended to carry her to freedom stopped in Corsica, where she was forced to convert to Christianity and baptized as Madalena. She never returned home, despite more than a decade of diplomatic effort involving the Spanish king …
Los espacios coloniales en las crónicas de Berbería
Los espacios coloniales en las crónicas de Berbería. Mar Martínez Góngora. Tiempo Emulado: Historia de América y España 28. Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2013. 272 pp. €29.80. - Volume 68 Issue 3
“[P]ara Que Me Saque Cabesea Por Cabesa…”
In the winter of 1613, the Algerian corsair Babaçain left the port of Algiers captaining a saetia , one of the ships with Latin sails used by North African corsairs, and headed north to the Spanish coast in the hope of capturing Christians to sell back at home. At the time, Babaçain was seventy
Traveling Libraries
In 1612, a Spanish fleet captured a French ship whose stolen cargo included the entire manuscript collection of the Sultan of Morocco, Muley Zidan. Soon, the collection made its way to the royal library, El Escorial, transforming the library into an important repository of Arabic books, which, since then, Arabists from across Europe sought to visit. By focusing on the social life of the collection, from the moment of its capture up through the pr…
The conspiracy of the ninth duke of Medina Sidonia (1641)
The Captive Sea
In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco—in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption formed the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a poli…
The Political Economy of Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean
In 1608, Christian corsairs captured a ten-year-old Algerian girl named Fatima and sold her into slavery in Livorno, Italy. Her father paid her ransom and nearly succeeded in returning her to Algiers. But the ship that was intended to carry her to freedom stopped in Corsica, where she was forced to convert to Christianity and baptized as Madalena. She never returned home, despite more than a decade of diplomatic effort involving the Spanish king …
Traveling Libraries
In 1612, a Spanish fleet captured a French ship whose stolen cargo included the entire manuscript collection of the Sultan of Morocco, Muley Zidan. Soon, the collection made its way to the royal library, El Escorial, transforming the library into an important repository of Arabic books, which, since then, Arabists from across Europe sought to visit. By focusing on the social life of the collection, from the moment of its capture up through the pr…
The Maghrib in Europe
Did a slave mosque really operate for decades, out in the open, during the eighteenth century in the port city of Cartagena in Murcia, Spain? An alarmed Inquisitorial report submitted to the Spanish king in September 1769 left no room for doubt — the hospital of the Muslim arsenal slaves in Cartagena functioned as a mosque.1 Its live-in muezzin recited the adhān, the call to worship, from a room on the second floor, and believers convened twice a…
“[P]ara Que Me Saque Cabesea Por Cabesa…”
In the winter of 1613, the Algerian corsair Babaçain left the port of Algiers captaining a saetia , one of the ships with Latin sails used by North African corsairs, and headed north to the Spanish coast in the hope of capturing Christians to sell back at home. At the time, Babaçain was seventy
Traveling Libraries
In 1612, a Spanish fleet captured a French ship whose stolen cargo included the entire manuscript collection of the Sultan of Morocco, Muley Zidan. Soon, the collection made its way to the royal library, El Escorial, transforming the library into an important repository of Arabic books, which, since then, Arabists from across Europe sought to visit. By focusing on the social life of the collection, from the moment of its capture up through the pr…
The conspiracy of the ninth duke of Medina Sidonia (1641)
Los espacios coloniales en las crónicas de Berbería
Los espacios coloniales en las crónicas de Berbería. Mar Martínez Góngora. Tiempo Emulado: Historia de América y España 28. Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2013. 272 pp. €29.80. - Volume 68 Issue 3
Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean
The Political Economy of Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean
In 1608, Christian corsairs captured a ten-year-old Algerian girl named Fatima and sold her into slavery in Livorno, Italy. Her father paid her ransom and nearly succeeded in returning her to Algiers. But the ship that was intended to carry her to freedom stopped in Corsica, where she was forced to convert to Christianity and baptized as Madalena. She never returned home, despite more than a decade of diplomatic effort involving the Spanish king …
“Towards a connected history of bondage in the Mediterranean
This review article examines recent scholarship on Christian captives in the early modern western Mediterranean. It points out how piracy, captivity, and ransom linked the lives of Christian and Muslim captives, and by extension connected Spain, France and the Italian Peninsula with Morocco and Ottoman Algiers and Tunis. It focuses on slavery, captivity, and redemption, namely, on issues of labor, on the importance of writing as a tool to facilit…
Captius i renegats al segle XVII
This is the most recent book by Majorcan historian Onofre Vaquer Bennasar, who has published numerous works on the social and commercial history of the late medieval and early modern Balearic Islan
The Captive Sea
In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco—in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption formed the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a poli…
The Sultan's Renegades
The Sultan's Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575–1610. Tobias P. Graf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxiv + 262 pp. $100. - Volume 72 Issue 1
Objets captifs
Objets captifs: Les artefacts catholiques en Méditerranée au début de l'époque moderneLes objets de dévotion catholique - images et effigies du Christ, de la Vierge et des saints, missels, rosaires, crucifix et objets liturgiques - ont circulé par milliers dans la Méditerranée occidentale à l'époque moderne. Pour une large part, cette mobilité a été une conséquence indirecte de la piraterie et de la traite d'êtres humains qui interconnectaient le…
The Maghrib in Europe
Did a slave mosque really operate for decades, out in the open, during the eighteenth century in the port city of Cartagena in Murcia, Spain? An alarmed Inquisitorial report submitted to the Spanish king in September 1769 left no room for doubt — the hospital of the Muslim arsenal slaves in Cartagena functioned as a mosque.1 Its live-in muezzin recited the adhān, the call to worship, from a room on the second floor, and believers convened twice a…
Dans les rues, on ne voit que des musulmans
En 1717, une plainte anonyme adressée au roi d'Espagne s'alarmait du nombre excessif de musulmans vivant à Carthagène (Murcie). Cette supplique déclencha une enquête du Conseil de Castille destinée à recenser les musulmans et à clarifier leur statut. Outre les esclaves des galères royales, l'enquête pointa tout particulièrement les libertinos , une catégorie méconnue d'esclaves privés résidant et travaillant librement dans la ville tout en étant …
Captive Objects
Catholic artifacts—images and sculptures of Christ, the Virgin, and various saints, as well as rosaries, crucifixes, and liturgical objects—circulated in their thousands throughout the early modern western Mediterranean. This mobility was largely an indirect byproduct of privateering and human trafficking, which bound together Spain’s Mediterranean territories, Morocco, and Ottoman Algiers. The disruptive moment of captivity set these otherwise d…
“In the Streets, You See Nothing but Muslims!”
In 1717, an anonymous petition to the king of Spain expressed concern about the excessive number of Muslims living in Cartagena (Murcia). This complaint prompted the Council of Castile to launch a survey of the Muslim population with the aim of clarifying their status. In addition to galley slaves, the inquiry focused in particular on libertinos , a little-known category of slaves who lived and worked freely in the city but were heavily indebted …
Frontier Narratives
The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern Maghrib
Between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, large quantities of wax were exported from the Maghrib to Europe. In the Maghrib, both raw wax and wax candles were involved in various social interactions that transcended mere environmental and economic considerations. For some Muslims, wax came to index Christianity, and its significance during the celebration of the Prophet's birthday was critiqued as a corrupt innovation. At the same …
Cimetières islamiques et appartenance locale en Espagne à l’époque moderne
Cet article examine la place des cimetières islamiques dans la définition de l’appartenance locale en Espagne à l’époque moderne, en prenant pour étude de cas la ville portuaire de Carthagène au xviiie siècle. La thèse soutenue est que la gestion des morts musulmans dans les sociétés chrétiennes ibériques ne se réduit pas à un problème de coexistence interconfessionnelle, mais constitue un enjeu de pouvoir et de distinction sociale à l’intérieur …
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