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Dragomans, tattooists, artisans: Palestinian Christians and their encounters with Catholic Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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posted on 2023-06-09, 15:57 authored by Jacob NorrisJacob Norris
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the presence of European Catholic actors in the Ottoman empire dramatically increased, particularly in the Palestinian provinces. The city of Jerusalem and its surrounding hinterland, referred to here by its Arabic name, Jabal al-Quds, witnessed a particularly intensive Catholic presence owing to its sanctified religious status. This article examines the ways in which the local Arabic-speaking Christian population of Jabal al-Quds interacted with these European Catholic actors. It situates these encounters within the wider scholarship on missionary encounters and cross-cultural interactions in the Mediterranean world, arguing that global historians need to pay greater attention to the inequalities embedded in many of these relationships and the frequent episodes of violent conflict they gave rise to. By inverting the standard Western gaze on Jerusalem and looking at these encounters from the inside out, the article seeks to restore local actors as important players within the global Counter-Reformation, albeit within a context of subjugation, conflict, and stymied mobility.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Journal of Global History

ISSN

1740-0228

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Issue

1

Volume

14

Page range

68-86

Department affiliated with

  • History Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • The Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex Publications
  • Sussex Centre for Migration Research Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-11-19

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-11-19

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-11-16

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