Escribano Páez, José Miguel2024-02-092024-02-092015Drassana: revista del Museu Marítim, ISSN 0214-2279, ISSN-e 2385-3425, Núm. 23, 2015, págs. 124-1360214-2279https://hdl.handle.net/10433/20039Drawing on different primary sources this article analyses the impact of captivity on the configuration of the frontier society between the south-eastern region of the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb at the beginning of the sixteenth century. More specifically, it shows how a wide array of actors (from the crown to humble citizens, from military authorities to members of minorities, etcetera) made use of this phenomenon as a means to negotiate their power position in the social fabric of this Mediterranean frontier. In this manner, captivity appears as a key factor in the internal configuration of this society, rather than as a mere expression of the clash of civilizations that use to characterise the Mediterranean world of the Early Modern period.application/pdfesAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/CautiveroMagrebReino de GranadaSiglo XVIjournal articleopen access