Cuerpos, objetos, sensorialidades: el registro del cautiverio cristiano en manos de los musulmanes en el Mediterráneo occidental (siglos xv al xvii)

Between 1450 and 1620, the African and European coasts of the Mediterranean Sea showed a world in constant movement, in which Christian and Muslim inheritances crossed and strained, creating a complex network of cultural, economic, social and political relations. The sources of the time bear witness to this frontier world, underlining the value of the captive as an emblematic character, since his figure transforms the life experience into a social and community testimony.  Hence, it is possible to approach these stories on the basis of the relationship between "testimonial-trauma story", within an ideological context and religious beliefs characterized by the so-called "effectiveness of discourse", which I analyze from the "sensory turn" that historical research has taken  in recent years, which allowed the recognition of new phenomena and objects of study, including the senses and, in my particular case, in the definition and identification of sensory marks, which embody the suffering of Christian captives in the hands of Muslims: sound, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile and affective marks allow me to reconstruct,  from an intersensory approach, the analyzed sources, both unpublished (Los Milagros de Guadalupe, preserved in the Archive of the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe ) and published (Tratado de la redencion de cautivos and Peregrinacion de Anastasio, written by Jeronimo Gracian Dantisco), hat configure the sensory model of an era. Video-summary of the article:  https://youtu.be/gJiVHODjeo8