Visible Strangers

Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri is a Lecturer of Early Modern History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and a Research Fellow in Early Modern History and the Institute of Mediterranean Europe History of the Italian Research Council (ISEM-CNR)

• Introduction – Filomena Viviana TagliaferriPart I: Homogenising and brokering: State management and early modern migrants1 Overcoming language barriers in Dalmatian urban space: Public notaries in the city of Zadar in the mid-17th century – Filip Novosel2 Representatives and negotiation between immigrants and the authorities in the city of Venice, 1540–1700 – Tamsin Prideaux3 Fashion, opulence and extravagance: Clothing and sumptuary laws in Early Modern Malta – Carmel CassarPart II: Minorities, visibility, and exclusion: Jews, Gypsies, and Muslims in catholic spaces4 Sharing, community, rivalry: Urban spaces and Jews in the Adriatic in the early modern period – Luca Andreoni5 Refugees or public thieves? The Gitanos and the right of asylum in churches in Hapsburg Spain – Maria Gloria Tumminelli6 Questioning differences. Some Remarks on conversions, tolerance and coexistence in early modern Italy – Serena Di NepiPart III: To Be is to do: Material practices, visibility, and identity in Ottoman and catholic cities7 Material practices as identity markers: Constantinople/Istanbul and its residents in the travelogue of the Russian pilgrim Ioann Lukyanov, 1702 – Alexandr Osipian8 Gifting servals and ransoming people: The Mediterranean voyages of Andrea di Luca Pitti (1551–55) – Matteo Calcagni9 ‘They were not Catholic, and they wanted to eat meat’. The expression of cultural affiliation through eating choices in early modern Valletta (17th-18th centuries) – Filomena Viviana TagliaferriEpilogue. From Mediterraneanism to Thalassological Third-Space: The Case of Mobile Chinese Heritages in the South China Sea – Sim Hinman WanIndex