On my last day in the archive, I came across the story of a Greek Christian man captured by Maltese pirates. He claimed the protection of his religion but the pirates didn’t believe him, so they made him undress to see if he had been circumcised. 1/
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This is so interesting, and your quick read at the end of this thread is so smart! What languages are you working with in the archive there?
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I came across this in an English volume. Most of the primary documents are in Italian, though. I will need to work in that if I plan to keep working in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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I can't wait to read your work on this. What you are doing is fascinating!
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Absolutely. I follow with great interest the framing of circumcision as male genital mutilation in Europe. What was interesting in the Med context was that it was firmly a sign of renegade Muslim identity & meant something different than Jewish circuncision.
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