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• Title:
  Crypto-Christianity and Religious Hybridisation in the Ottoman Balkans: a Case Study (1599–1622)
• Creator:
  Notarfonso, Silvia
• Contributor:
  Eötvös Loránd University; University of Macerata;
  s.notarfonso@gmail.com
• Description:
  In this paper I intend to address the issue of crypto-Catholicism in the early Ottoman Balkans, a complex phenomenon which has drawn historians’ attention over the decades. More specifically, I will attempt to define and clarify the difficult and unresolved issue, taking into account the characteristics of the Balkans where many religious and social groups co-existed. That produced interaction and enmeshment between the various religions and, as a result, identities developed specific distinctive traits and often overlapped.Within that unique Balkan environment – a real confessional melting pot – crypto-Christianity naturally arose. Crypto-Catholics or Orthodoxies, living under Ottoman rule, publicly decided to embrace the Islamic religion but secretly identified themselves as Christians. I have set out to investigate this phenomenon by considering letters and reports produced by Catholic missions involved in the Balkan peninsula.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.08.27;
  2020.12.23
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe;
  10
• Subject:
  Ottoman Balkans;
  Catholic missionaries;
  crypto-Christianity;
  Catholic confessionalisation
• Identifier:
  2084-140X;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38901 ;
  2449-8378;
  10.18778/2084-140X.10.09
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image