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Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500-1540 (Hardcover)
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Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500-1540 (Hardcover)
Series: Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts
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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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