Introduction

Intimate Connections: Marriage and mobilities across the modern Mediterranean and the Red Sea

“…Italy and Spain are often regarded as representative of all Mediterranean Europe. Instead, it is only recently that the Northeastern Mediterranean has seen scholarly attention in the Mediterranean space (Boudjaaba et al, 2019;Gasparoni et al, 2019;Hirsch et al, 2018). Despite the attempts to cross the north/south border from a comparative perspective (Cerutti & Grangaud, 2017), a significant fracture between the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean persists in the historiography.…”