Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires.

Part I. Envisioning Empire in the Old World

1. The Mediterranean and Maritime Modernity (Ania Loomba)

2. Mapping Trans-Imperial Ottoman Space: Movement, Genre, Temporality, Ethnography of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Palmira Brummett)

3. Europe’s Turkish Nemesis (Larry Silver)

4. The Houses of Habsburg and Osman: Rivals, Mirrors, Internecine Families (Carina Johnson)

5. “The ruin and slaughter of … fellow Christians”: The French as Threat to Christendom in Spanish Assertions of Sovereignty in Italy, 1479–1516 (Andrew W. Devereux)

6. Modern War, Ancient Form: Lessons from Lepanto for a Latin Seminar in Post-bellum Granada (Elizabeth R. Wright)

7. Imperial Anxiety, the Roman Mirror, and the Neapolitan Academy of the Duke of Medinaceli, 1696–1701 (Thomas Dandelet)

Part II. Imagining the Mediterranean in Early Modern England

8. Meta-theater and the Mediterranean (Jane Degenhardt)

9. Copying “the Anti-Spaniard”: Post-Armada Hispanophobia and English Renaissance Drama (Eric Griffin)

10. The Spanish Empire in Webster's Italianate Drama (Emily Weissbourd)

11. The Pope's Scholars: Papal Supremacy and the 1579 Student Revolt at the English College in Rome (Brian Lockey)

12. Seeing Spain through Darkened Eyes: The Black Legend and Cornwallis’ Mission to Spain, 1605–1609 (William Goldman)

Barbara Fuchs is a professor of Spanish and English at UCLA.