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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Finding that he had, they took him as a slave. He fought his case and eventually (5 years later) the grand master determined that he was a Christian forced to convert to Islam as a teen and so not fit for slavery. That’s not the end of the story, however. 2/
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Because he spoke and could read Arabic he was closely watched by the Inquisition, and despite his marriage to a Christian woman in Malta, he was brought up on charges of apostasy. The incident with the pirates reminds me of how and where difference 3/
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Is being located in the body. And how Islam is being pathologized, ritualized in bodies, marking them forever as other and suspicious. And that the integrity of the Latin Christian body is simultaneously being articulated. 4/4
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
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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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @Becky_Fall
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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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
Right on! I’m always curious about how folks handle archival work in languages they aren’t fluent in, or research in countries where they aren’t native speakers (not least bc i can’t even fathom how much I miss personally due to my anglophone bias/limitations
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Visiting these archives makes it very clear that there’s so much we don’t know because of our geographic restrictions. 
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