Individual agency and institutional strategies in the early modern Mediterranean ransom system
Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Antonino Campagna
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/189
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 593-618 File size 236 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2025-189004
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This paper reconstructs the story of Anna/Hiemma to investigate the agency of marginalized subjects and the distinctive strategies they employed for survival. It examines how Anna/Hiemma and her slaves sought to secure their freedom in Rome, challenging papal initiatives aimed at redeeming enslaved individuals. By contextualizing Anna/Hiemma’s actions within the evolving soteriological agenda of the Pope and the Roman political strategy, the paper reassess reassess the political and diplomatic significance of the Opera Pia and its redemption transactions. By doing so, this paper first unearths how Anna/Hiemma came to embody a a new form of subjectivity that both leveraged the Roman agenda, and was, in turn, shaped by it. Second, it demonstrates how the narrative of her escape was reframed as a conversion story, deeply embedded within the cross-religious networks of the Mediterranean.
Keywords: Conversion, Ransom, Rome, Mediterranean, Slavery, Women.
Antonino Campagna, Agency individuale e strategie istituzionali nel sistema del riscatto mediterraneo della prima età moderna in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 189/2025, pp 593-618, DOI: 10.3280/SS2025-189004