Dr Tarruell is an early modern historian working on the Spanish Empire and the early modern Mediterranean.Her research centres on the Spanish Empire and the analysis of Christian-Islamic interactions in the Mediterranean area during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the processes of (re)integration and assimilation in early modern Europe – and beyond – of individuals and social groups with extensive experiences both in Christian and Islamic lands.
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