The Maghrib in Europe: Royal Slaves and Islamic Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Spain By Thomas Glesener and Daniel Hershenzon

https://www.academia.edu/86346156/The_Maghrib_in_Europe_Royal_Slaves_and_Islamic_Institutions_in_Eighteenth_Century_Spain?email_work_card=title hereafter AGS), Secretar ıa de Marina (hereafter SMA), Leg. 709; and Archivo Hist orico Nacional (hereafter AHN), Estado, Leg. 2843/2, no. 184. Over the past century and a half, several scholars have noted the presence of the hospital-mosque. Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century official chroniclers of Cartagena unearthed important records but treated the case as a curiosity and failed to reconstruct its history faithfully. See Isidoro Mart ınez Rizo, Fechas y Fechos de Cartagena (Cartagena, 1894); and Federico Casal Mart ınez, Historia de las calles de Cartagena (Cartagena, 1930). Historians writing at the turn of the twentieth century mistook the institution for the last vestige of Morisco life in Spain, see Manuel Danvila y Collado, La expulsi on de los moriscos españoles: Conferencias pronunciadas en el Ateneo de Madrid por Manuel Danvila y Collado (Madrid, 1889), 318; and Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition in Spain, 4 vols. (New York, 1906-22), iii, 269. More recently, and on the basis of the documents in AGS, SMA, Leg. 709, Maximiliano Barrio Gozalo has briefly described the history of the institution, but interpreted it as an aspect of the slaves' religious expression reduced to the private sphere, and ignored the public and corporative dimensions of the hospitalmosque. See Maximiliano Barrio Gozalo, 'La esclavitud en el Mediterr aneo occidental en el siglo XVIII: Los esclavos del rey en España ', Critica Storica, xvii, 2 (1980). Shortened versions of the article were published as Maximiliano Barrio Gozalo, 'La mano de obra esclava en el arsenal de Cartagena a mediados del Setecientos', Investigaciones hist oricas. Epoca moderna y contempor anea, xvii (1997); and Maximiliano Barrio Gozalo, 'Esclavos musulmanes en la España del siglo XVIII', Anales de historia antigua, medieval y moderna, xlix (2015). On the basis of ...